Finance Senior Analyst- Functions Planning, Reporting and Process Improvement

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Finance Senior Analyst- Functions Planning, Reporting and Process Improvement job will provide expertise and insights to execute and lead the simplification and modernization of financial planning & analysis activities while also performing financial planning and analysis activities to create a deep understanding of business performance. In this role, you will work across Finance to achieve process excellence, with a strong end-to-end focus that enables greater predictability of financial results, financial planning connected to operational drivers and analysis that leads to better decision-making and efficiency. This role will bring process excellence expertise, strong analytical capabilities, and a passion for driving change and digital enablement. With minimal supervision, this job conducts complex analyses to generate insights and leads to implementing continuous improvements to enhance business decision making.

Key Accountabilities

• FINANCIAL PLANNING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Reviews and provides timely, accurate and consistent financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis for the assigned business group or function, translating financial metrics into relevant insights to help improve decision making, performance and business growth.
• MODELING & ANALYSIS: Partners to perform financial evaluation of new business development opportunities, and develops ad hoc analysis and complex modeling including cost of services and associated trends, both financial and non-financial, to enable decision making and evaluate key performance indicators.
• CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Leads implementing improvements related to data and technology to support standardization and simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• REPORTING & PRESENTATIONS: Performs complex financial reporting and presentations to improve the communication process of initiatives and results to business teams and other partners.
• TOOLS, MODELS & REPORTING: Builds strong partnerships with peers in cross functional financial teams to accomplish the finance strategy and strategic goals of the business or function, developing and implementing effective and efficient tools, benchmarking, models and reporting to provide insights and ensure accuracy and transparency.
• INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING: Partners to manage key financial risks and implement the monetization of integrated business planning, forecasting and operating review for the business group or function.
• OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: Monitors performance against strategic decisions by providing financial support to accomplish plans, including financial modeling, scenario planning, and valuation.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Coordinates commercial conversations, reviews collected stakeholder inputs and thoughts, and prepares quantitative summaries of future estimates to present to senior team members to improve decision making.

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

• Demonstrated experience in breakthrough insights and implementation of finance process improvement resulting in quantifiable process improvement and enhanced FP&A analytics
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial modeling
• Strong prioritization, facilitation, decision making and problem-solving skills with a track record of driving measurable outcomes
• Ability to communicate business and technical information effectively to finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Excellent organization, communication and stakeholder management skills