Professional, Business Financial Planning & Analysis

Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.

JOB SUMMARY

• The Professional, Business Financial Planning & Analysis job performs financial planning and analysis activities that integrate planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting and analysis to support business strategy development. With limited supervision, this job conducts moderately complex analyses to generate insights and implements continuous improvements to enhance business decision making.

• FINANCIAL PLANNING, REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Provides timely, accurate and consistent financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, root cause analysis 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: Performs ad hoc analysis and moderately complex modeling including cost of services and associated trends, both financial and nonfinancial, to enable decision making and evaluate key performance indicators, communicates results, and may assist with the financial evaluation of new business development opportunities.
• CONTINUOUS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Implements improvements related to data and technology to support standardization and simplification of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• REPORTING & PRESENTATIONS: Performs moderately complex financial reporting and presentations to improve the communication process of initiatives and results to business teams and other partners.
• TOOLS, MODELS, & REPORTING: Collaborates with peers in cross functional financial teams to accomplish the finance strategy and strategic goals of the business or function, implementing effective and efficient tools, models, benchmarking and reporting to provide insights and ensure accuracy and transparency.
• INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING: Supports managing key financial risks and implements the monetization of integrated business planning, forecasting and operating review for the business group or function.
• OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: Monitors operational performance and conducts variance analysis and comparison against forecast and budget for a set of given business areas.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Supports commercial conversations, analyzes 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 2 years of relevant work experience in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and generating business insights to support strategy development. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
• Fluent in English (intermediate to advanced level)

• Strong skills in Excel (intermediate-advanced level)
• Experience designing and generating dashboards and reports in Power BI.