Senior Analyst, FP&A- Boise, ID

Summary

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Support the annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning processes for Simplot AgriBusiness Retail.
• Coordinate planning inputs across business units and functions to support consistency, accuracy, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Develop and maintain financial models used to forecast revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, cash flow, and other key financial metrics.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate key assumptions, business risks, and opportunities.
• Consolidate forecasts and plans and communicate significant changes, drivers, and implications to finance and business leaders.

Business Partnership and Decision Support

• Serve as a finance partner to business leaders by providing financial guidance and analytical support for operational and strategic decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate business initiatives, investments, and performance improvement opportunities.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into meaningful insights and practical recommendations.
• Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and help leaders understand the financial implications of business decisions.
• Build effective working relationships across Finance, Operations, Commercial, Human Resources, Technology, and other support functions.

Performance Management and Reporting

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial performance reporting and management review materials.
• Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic targets and provide clear explanations of key variances.
• Monitor key business drivers and performance indicators and identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools that improve visibility into financial and operational performance.
• Present findings and recommendations to finance and business leadership teams.

Financial Modeling and Strategic Analysis

• Develop financial models supporting business cases, investment decisions, pricing initiatives, workforce planning, and strategic projects.
• Evaluate the financial impacts of business initiatives through quantitative analysis and scenario modeling.
• Support productivity analysis, cost optimization, and other efforts to improve business performance.
• Conduct ad hoc analyses to support executive decision-making and strategic priorities.  

Process Improvement and Analytics

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate financial planning, reporting, and analytical processes.
• Enhance reporting capabilities through improved data analytics and visualization tools.
• Partner with Technology and Data teams to improve data quality, accessibility, governance, and reporting efficiency.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the FP&A organization.

Typical Education

Relevant Experience

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, analytical, and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with financial planning, reporting, or business intelligence tools.
• Experience with SAP, SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Power Query, or similar platforms preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and the relationship between financial results and operational business drivers.Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to finance and non-financial audiences.
• Strong collaboration, influencing, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Five or more years of related experience in financial planning and analysis, financial analysis, business partnering, corporate finance, accounting, or a related analytical finance role.