ANALYST II PRICING-BUSINESS FINANCIAL

Summary:

Operating in a dynamic environment, the Analyst II position will work closely with the organization to produce financial analysis that deliver key insights to drive business decisions. Reporting to the Sr. Manager Accounting and working closely with other key management members such as the Executive Team and members of the Sales, Marketing, Sourcing, and Operations teams, the position will perform ad hoc requests related primarily to business development opportunities and product costing related matters. This position will assist with financial analysis of customer business opportunities/bids on new business as well as existing business, and modeling various outcomes based upon dynamic economic cost conditions and varying selling prices. The analysis will focus on areas such as maximizing EBITDA generation, cash flow optimization, appropriate return profiles and sales growth. The position will be responsible for developing analysis/models that drive actionable initiatives for Consumer Product Partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide detailed analytical support for company initiatives such as pricing, commodity (raw material) impacts and costs savings.
• Proven experience in creating financial models for variety of uses including Company EBITDA and cash generation, as well as smaller ad hoc projects.
• Lead aspects of the annual budgeting exercise by incorporating business/financial plans in various areas and projecting forward looking financial statements. Periodically update these assumptions and incorporate into forecast.
• Tracking key assumptions versus budget and analyze variances from budget and prior year, including preparing financial bridges.
• Provide financial analysis and leadership as a member of the team focused on the Company’s growth priorities.
• On a monthly/routine basis, prepare various reports and analyses to track key financial management data such as outbound freight, commodity/market prices, etc.
• Work with Sales, Marketing, Pricing, Cost Accounting, Operations, Project Management, Executive Management and others to explain changes in financial profile including cost changes, selling price changes, product changes, etc. Model various aspects and work with team to recommend selling prices.
• Analyze trends in profitability by evaluating product categories, customers, market segments, etc. Continually analyze and recommend opportunities for business development, cost savings, or margin improvement. Evaluate Bill of Material costs and help analyze and explain variances.
• Collect and analyze the company wide financial data and identify trends, as well as working with individual business areas such as sales or procurement on identifying, tracking, challenging key metrics.
• Prepare various Price Book Analyses requests.
• Prepare price comparison analyses including pricing of similar products, previous prices, prices of lost business, etc.
• Provide pricing and product costing support on customer bids.
• Analyze and review manufacturing and purchase price variances.
• Assist in establishing costs for new products.
• Work with Project Management team on cost development of potential new items to provide insights into price setting.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and reporting for special requests.
• Assist on market price initiatives based upon commodity fluctuations.
• As requested, incorporate major cost breakdown into margin analyses. At times, building dynamic cost functionality for cost modeling for major raw material fluctuations.
• Assist with providing weekly and monthly reporting on all price changes.
• Provide support for yearly Cycle Count Audit by performing bi-weekly test counts with distribution center employee owners, reporting outcomes, and holding monthly reviews of outcomes to ensure root cause analysis is being performed.
• Provide backup support to Supervisor Cost Accounting by preparing and distributing daily manufacturing variance reporting, as well as completing cost roll functions on an ad hoc basis.
• Analyze high use cost centers to ensure proper coding of expenses to better enable accurate forecasting and budgeting.
• Book journal entries to align the realization of prepaid expenses to the manufacturing of finished goods they were used to produce.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Competencies:

• Ability to perform detailed analysis and summarize key insights for presentation to management to support and influence business decisions.
• Ability to analyze, explain and model the key drivers in product cost. Ability to bridge the major changes in profitability both at a detailed level and explain the total impact to the company.
• Strong ability to utilize outside information resources to access data relevant to Consumer Product Partners
• Excellent system skills, including SAP experience and the ability to efficiently mine data.
• Track record of working independently and developing a collaborative consensus across business landscape.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical and statistical skills are required.
• Assertive personality that can drive projects to swift conclusions
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to network well both internally and externally

Travel:

Less than 5%

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms

Education Requirements:

Degree in Finance, Accounting or related. Advance degree or certification preferred.

Experience Requirements:

5 years’ experience in data and business system analytics

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

CPA/CMA or MBA preferred