Financial Planning & Analysis Senior Analyst - Cargill - Miami, FL

This position will include activities that are value creation focused and forward looking such as providing the insight necessary to budget, forecast, and plan. It includes analyzing data to provide insight into evaluating acquisition targets, products, customers and country elevators. Additionally, this role will focus on top line growth, cost of goods sold efficiencies and ways to continue to reduce SG&A. By relying on the Accounting & Finance team to produce accurate and timely financial and management reports, this position provides analysis and insight on the direction the business should go. Building strong relationships within the function and business will be critical for value creation opportunities.

Principal Accountabilities:
65% Financial Planning & Analysis

Help Identifying new metrics (i.e. KPIs) to drive performance relative to strategic priorities and ensure current metrics are relevant and effective. Enhance scenario planning analysis for strategic planning activities.

Identify and drive value creation within business (stretch targets). Measured by profit improvement (wider margins), lower cost and driving performance. Focus management on most critical risks and opportunities.

Help assessing action plans targeting significant value opportunities contributing to the BU P&L.

Thoroughly understands how our markets and how all areas operates as a business.

Monitor and track operational performance, analyse, and call for action as required.

Provide financial and business analysis on projects and key initiatives including business case preparation and commitment models.

Demonstrates an application of broad/diverse commercial knowledge with understanding of how all areas come together and operate as a business.

Supports the enterprise/business with new business activities and issues resolution, including MADJV, business transactions, tax and customs issues, monitoring the performance of the new acquired business etc. and liaising with legal and other cross-functional departments as necessary.

Understands, translates, and provides insight into business performance against competitor & industry trends. Ability to connect the dots.

Participate in business customer solution teams with focus on offering financial solutions to customers and understanding customer and trade flow profitability.

Deliver clear presentations including defending positions on controversial topics; adapt style to continuously seek ‘win win’ solutions.

Utilize tools, benchmarking and systems to get to a more efficient and harmonized analysis.

35% Business Partnership and Leveraging of Resources:
Advises and provides financial insight into the performance of the business segment.

Able to drive the behavior, results or agenda needed for the business. Has a point of view and communicates it effectively thus influencing colleagues by supporting them, challenging them, providing unique perspective and delivering value.

Partner closely and leverage the Accounting and Finance teams for key information points including historical reporting and data collection. May include activities related to cost accounting, margin reporting, analysis of data and management reports, activity based costing or cost allocation to products and customers, management reports generation, etc.

Provide broad knowledge of and connect with the right relationships with areas such as Tax, Treasury, Risk Management, Law, Operations, etc. Partners with COE’s, A&F, and cross-business functional and product line managers to play an active role in enhancing connectivity and communication.

Oversees CAPEX portfolio review process.

Serve as a champion of competitive excellence areas and promote a continuous improvement culture.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree

Solid understanding in financial metrics, balance sheet and income statement analysis

Ability to synthesize data into clear, actionable plans

Design, develop and implement value-added business analytics

Thorough understanding of how to win in our markets and the actions necessary to achieve this

Proven partner who has worked closely with cross-functional teams

Demonstrated success in business partnering initiatives

MS Office (Excel, Power Point and Word) proficiency

Ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization and build trust across multiple stakeholder groups

Ability to understand the business and the key drivers of succes; business acumen

Ability to partner closely with Finance and Accounting teams for key information points

Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Finance, Business or Engineering

Broad/diverse commercial knowledge with understanding of how all areas come together and operate as a business

Experience in business expansion, divestiture, or acquisition, MADJV, and commitment analysis & preparation

Demonstrated ability with partner or customer interactions

Demonstrated leadership

Experience in a commodities business

Ability to travel regionally

English proficiency

Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Job

Finance/Accounting

Primary Location

US-FL-Miami

Other Locations

Brazil-Sao Paulo-Sao Paulo, Argentina-C-Buenos Aires

Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

Shift

Day Job