What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Kennesaw, GA or Forsyth, MO position at Archer Daniels Midland?
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Kennesaw, GA or Forsyth, MO
Nature and Scope:
Internal
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
REF:112754BR
Kennesaw, GA or Forsyth, MO
Nature and Scope:
- The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager Deerland (Health & Wellness, Nutrition) is responsible to provide financial and business support for the business execution, forecasting and budgeting processes, financial analysis, performance management, and insightful information to the senior management for a global and/or specific region.
- Health & Wellness is a fast-growing division focused on science-based functional ingredients for Humans, PET and animals primarily focused on microbiome modulation. H&W started in 2017 from a combination of ADM legacy and acquired business in different parts of the globe. H&W products are sold as single ingredients and finished formats as part of customer’s solution to direct to consumer (B2C).
- The ideal candidate must be able to leverage their finance skills and experience to effectively partner with and support business leadership in a fast-growth environment. The FP&A Manager will be primarily focused on global Deerland business (largest H&W acquisition), but also support other H&W businesses and will report to the Global Finance Lead for Deerland.
- Coordinate preparation and reporting of annual plan, monthly forecasts, key performance measures, and performance reporting to BU Leaders and BU finance leaders at regional and/or global levels.
- Partner across BU Leaders and finance organization to support key initiatives and driving actions that improves business unit performance.
- Participate and demonstrate leadership in cross-functional efforts within Finance to continually improve reporting, forecasting, planning, and profitability analysis.
- Develop and present financial results, projections, manufacturing cost analytics and ad hoc analysis requests to senior management.
- Actively seek for efficiency and cost improvements in all areas.
- Ability to work in a fast-growing environment and interact with teams from both legacy Deerland entities and other H&W businesses.
- Work closely with Controlling colleagues to design and implement process changes to improve the relevance and insightfulness of information available to management.
- Provide support on capital investments and strong collaboration with Commercial, Operations and Finance areas.
- Ability to influence others within a matrix environment including senior management
- Focus on execution of the operational plan
- A bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or economics
- Preferred – MBA
- Minimum 7-10 years of experience in a similar position in large multinationals close to operations, manufacturing, logistics and distribution operations, international or global exposure and breadth of experience, experience in processing businesses.
- Experience working in an organization with centralized services functions of global centers of expertise.
- Detailed knowledge of general accounting principles, practices, policies, and procedures.
- Solid understanding of month-end financial closing process.
- Ability to work in a challenging environment with multiple, changing and competing priorities.
- Effective oral and written communication skills as well as ability to work with various levels of office and operational contacts; good presentation with an ability to communicate clearly.
- Results and continuous improvement oriented; ability to drive initiatives and lead changes.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach; willingness to roll-up sleeves and make things happen; strong follow skills through and detail oriented.
- Project management experience managing multiple projects at one time.
- Positive, ‘can do’ hands on attitude with good influencing and stakeholder management skills
- Advance knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint - Attention to detail required.
- Strong organization and time management skills and ability to handle multiple deliverables and meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities and contribute to building a positive team environment..
- Ability to travel as necessary.
Internal
- Executives, Leaders in H&W, and all Deerland locations, FP&A peers, Global Commercial team, Customer Service
- Customers, associations, vendors, sales agents, and auditors
- Ability to perform the essential job functions consistently safely and successfully with qualitative and/or quantitative productivity.
- Standard office safety regulations.
ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.
REF:112754BR