Senior Financial Analyst - Trade

Senior Financial Analyst – Trade

Glanbia  

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey 

The Opportunity 

The Senior Financial Analyst– Trade role is a Business Partner role to the GPN Americas CCO (customer sales) team. GPN Americas is a $1B organization encompassing all sales of ON, think!, Isopure, BSN and Amazing Grass brands across the North American and South American markets. This role will have close commercial involvement across all brands and regions within GPN Americas, with primary focus on trade spend.

The role will be responsible for working directly with the sales teams and other cross functional partners to ensure complete tracking of projected and actualized trade spend to ensure spend is accurately recorded, in line with GPN’s accounting policies, and analyzed against budgeted/forecasted costs.  Responsibilities include month end tasks, financial reporting and analytics, and budget planning.

In addition, this person will manage a team consisting of 1-2 individuals responsible for the auditing and clearing of deduction activity, while interfacing with an additional overseas team.  These direct reports will audit deductions to ensure accuracy, and will identify, dispute, and recover invalid deductions taken through communications with the commercial team and external customer contacts.  The Senior Financial Analyst - Trade reports directly to the Director- Trade Finance.

Essential Functions

•        Work closely with commercial team to deliver corporate goals

•        Prepare month-end reviews and drive discussions

•        Perform in-depth analysis of deductions received such as trending, forecasting, and SKU level grouping

•        Proactively identify trends and assist in implementing processes to continuously improve accuracy and efficiency of deductions and to prevent invalid deductions

•        Prepare month-end trade spend accrual journal entries

•        Make decisions that will directly impact the organization’s cash flow & profitability

•        Provide ad hoc deduction and trade spend reporting and analysis

 The Skills you will bring to the team

• Advanced skills in Excel (Required). Able to manage multiple data sets

• Ability to facilitate meetings, drive results, and implement change

• Experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP and Business Objects

• Able to work independently and strong analytical skills (problem solving, evaluation, and judgment)

• Strong organizational skills with demonstrated accuracy and attention to detail

• Must be able to work in a fast pace environment, and adapt to changes in the company

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• BA Accounting/Finance Degree or related field

• MBA and/or CPA/CA is a plus

• Three  years of experience working in Corporate Finance and/or Accounting preferred

The opportunity will be based in Downers Grove, IL with hybrid working arrangements available which offer you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.  

What we would like to offer you!  

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.  

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience.  Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in IL. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range.  The annual salary for IL based employees for this role is $80k-100K with an annual bonus.

About Glanbia  

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