Senior Financial Analyst
Lineage
- Novi, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop relationships based on mutual trust and respect with operating leaders at all levels.
- Partner closely with the Senior Manager, Business Insights to drive results.
- Play a key role in the design, gathering and building of monthly and quarterly intelligence reporting processes
- Drive financial results via data analysis, including key trends, variance analysis and development of financial models for decision support.
- Help manage account and contact databases to monitor commercial funnel activity and help to make recommendations on priority audiences
- Support the annual multi-year strategic plan and business plan processes for the portfolio, including year-over-year analysis of Site, Region and Area level P&Ls
- Support monthly regional reporting and forecast processes including variance analysis and explanations.
- Increase productivity by developing automated reporting and forecasting tools.
- Conduct market research, data mining and business intelligence ad-hoc projects.
- Support merger and acquisition analysis and integration as necessary.
- Review and influence capital spending plans via business case, payback and profitability analysis.
- Drive customer level business case and profitability analysis as necessary.
- Drive overall business analysis as well as understand and action key performance indicators, including non-financial metrics.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
- Strong analytical skills (both qualitative and quantitative)
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to self-manage both recurring and ad-hoc requests
- Effective communication skills verbal and digital communication skills
- Ability to capture details while understanding the connection to the bigger picture
- Flexibility to engage in some meetings outside of regular business house is important
- Understanding of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Account Engagement (Pardot) or similar CRM & digital systems would be considered an asset
- Experience in database setup and management would be considered an asset
- Exposure to food industry analytics and category management data such as NielsenIQ Homescan or similar systems would be considered an asset
- Experience in multi-national market business and multiple business models would be considered an asset