What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Glanbia?
About the Company
Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.
About the Role
The Commercial Finance Analyst acts as a key business partner to Commercial and Product Management teams across Nutrition/Premix, Bakery, and Film & Glitter segments. This role assists with financial planning and profitability analysis, supporting budgets, forecasts, and customer performance reviews. This position delivers timely, accurate financial insights to support sales and profit targets, and ensures clear reporting and actionable analysis to enable data-driven decisions and business growth.
Responsibilities
- Financial Analysis & Reporting:
- Analyze Gross Margin and Gross Profit to determine impact caused by volume, selling prices, material costs and/or production costs.
- Prepare month-end report pack and presentation decks for Executive management, including accurate and timely financial reporting for the business unit and various weekly/monthly reports.
- Track and report risks and opportunities facing the business, providing insights to support decision-making.
- Compare actual results against business plan, forecast, and prior year, and prepare/distribute variance analysis to executive management.
- Ensure consistency and simplicity of financial models/reports.
- Budgeting & Forecasting:
- Assist in preparation of annual budgets and financial forecasts with input from Commercial, Supply Chain and Operations, including projections by major customers, product categories, and Account Managers.
- Financial support of Budget roll-up using a bottom-up data approach.
- Pricing & Costing:
- Complete RFP’s and work with PSM on customer pricing, including assisting with product pricing and costing analysis as assigned.
- Build understanding of standard costing system, and associated production overhead allocations.
- Month-end Close:
- Period-end close responsibilities, including monitoring of accruals, analysis of actual results versus budget/forecast, and assisting with closing tasks and reporting as assigned.
- Business Partnering:
- Serve as point of contact for all Commercial questions related to business unit financials.
- Partner with the Commercial and Product Management on financial analyses for long-term product strategy.
- Partner with PSM and commercial on day to day pricing requests, and annual RFP’s and support the work of the pricing/financial analyst onsite.
- Build financial “what-if” type analysis to support leadership decision making.
- Other:
- Assist with resolving SAP and BI issues to facilitate reporting.
- Responsible for process improvement and standardization in assigned areas.
- Assist in the preparation of Internal and External audit requirements.
Qualifications
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2-4 years of related experience.
- Ability to effectively present financial information.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to effectively time manage and prioritize tasks.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Ability to work to and meet deadlines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of the organization.
- Must be a self-motivated individual who can identify issues/opportunities for improvement and be proactive in addressing them.
- Moderate overnight travel (up to 5%) by land and/or air.
Benefits
The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.