Overview
This person will lead the company’s financial budget/reforecasting process and implement and maintain integrated planning systems that support the company wide planning efforts. They will serve as administrator of the planning system and seek out increasingly efficient and effective ways to support planning & reporting efforts across the organization, including annual budget, quarterly reforecast, rolling forecasting, scenario and long-range planning.
In addition to planning and forecasting responsibilities the Sr. Budgeting & Planning analyst will collaborate closely with the Accounting team on actuals integration and variance reporting and provide support to the FP&A team and business partners to improve forecasting effectiveness and accuracy across the business.
Primary Duties
Planning System Management
- Lead the implementation of new planning system and process in 2015 and serve as primary administrator and support for evolution of the system in service of changing organization needs.
- Provide documentation and ongoing training support for the planning system, for all level of users.
- Develop into the SME for our planning system & processes and lead the continuous optimization of both
- Tight collaboration with Accounting Team, to ensure the accuracy, integrity and overall pace at which transactional and other key data becomes available for integration into planning system for use in reporting and analysis
Budget Management
- Develop, manage, and upgrade the financial components of the company’s annual operating plan & budget and supporting Quarterly Reforecasts.
- Ensure budget to actual variance analysis reports are accurate and available to budget managers and decision makers in a timely manner.
- Engage the company to increase in overall business/financial planning capabilities and accuracy.
- Lead the company’s annual budget and quarterly reforecast processes.
- Manage the communication, information, timelines, and requirements that link the annual operatingplan with the annual budget and financial planning process.
- Analyze, validate, and challenge business planning assumptions in partnership with FP&A Team and Functional Leaders.
- Seek continuous optimization of process and inputs
- Provide guidance to business partners on appropriate level of planning
- Create and maintain a forecast accuracy report to track our ability to improve our financial planning accuracy over time
Reporting & Analysis
- Support FP&A team and Finance Manager with monthly flash, quarterly business reviews, customer and product P&L development and analysis.
- Support Director of Finance in the development of long range plans and scenarios as needed for business decisions, annual valuation and strategic planning efforts.
- Complete ad hoc financial analysis as required by the Director of Finance
Qualifications
- Minimum of Bachelor Degree in accounting, business management or other related field. MBA is a plus
- 3-5 years progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably within CPG company
- Prior experience coordinating the planning cycle in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Project management training & experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Navision
- Advanced knowledge in the use of financial planning software applications, databases, query tools, spreadsheets and/or word processing required.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, motivated and able to multi task
- Passion for our mission, vision, values & teamwork
WORKING CONDITIONS
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Office environment
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No specific physical requirements
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