Senior Finance Analyst

Description

Job Summary

Within the Kettle Cuisine shared services model, the Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for financial consolidation, reporting, and overhead spend across Kettle Cuisine entities, which operate on a variety of ERP systems. This team member will work with other members of the Accounting and FP&A teams, as well as with Sales, Operations, and the CFO, preparing reports, discussing department spend, and facilitating the budget process. The Senior Financial Analyst will report to and work closely with the Assistant Controller and Corporate Controller. They will assume responsibility for reporting packs which are used by the Executive team and PE owners and will have a key role in providing financial information and insight to senior leaders.

Role and Responsibilities

• Department Spend – Ensure that department managers are provided with timely and accurate information to manage budgeted costs. Provide weekly department spending updates. Lead the monthly department spend reviews. Work with department managers to spot issues and identify opportunities for improvement. Prepare additional analysis as necessary. Summarize department spend feedback for executive analysis.
• Annual Budget – Lead the annual budgeting process for overhead spending and people costs. Collaborate with department heads to prepare overhead spend budget proposals. Develop key assumptions in the people budget process. Facilitate management review by developing concise analysis. Monitor and track changes to budget assumptions.
• Financial Reporting – Maintain the monthly financial reporting file in collaboration with the Corporate Controller. Create additional functionality in the file as requested and fix issues that arise. Provide financial insights and reports to support decision-making processes. Assume responsibility for monthly reporting packs.
• Improvements – Consider ways to improve established processes to provide more timely results and opportunity for more thorough analysis.
• Other – Lead and contribute to other initiatives, within and beyond accounting.

Level Of Responsibility

• Works under general supervision. Makes decisions within clearly prescribed areas referring matters that fall outside that area to others.
• Recommends actions and alternatives to supervisor and others.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Cross-trains other employees and answers questions from co-workers, but is not responsible for performance management.

Skill required:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant experience
• Financial and business acumen; knowledge of U.S. GAAP
• Strong Excel skills, including V-lookups, filtering, and pivot tables
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact and communicate effectively with employees at all levels including senior leadership
• Bachelor’s degree with business related concentration, finance or accounting preferred
• Not required but a plus:
  • Experience explaining financial results to non-Finance managers
  • Prior experience in manufacturing environment and/or in CPG
  • Experience with BI tools and/or dashboards/use of SQL
  • Experience with any or all of the following: Catalyst (EBM Software), Enterprise 21, Ross (Aptean)
  • CPA designation

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-starter able to conceptualize and drive initiatives forward / problem-solving skills
• Able to work from home independently and communicate in a clear and concise fashion
• Attention to detail, well organized, and able to juggle many projects at once
• Comfortable moving at a fast pace and in ambiguous environments
• Positive attitude and motivated by contributing to the overall success of the team
• Strong analytical skills to interpret financial data and provide actionable insights

Americans with Disabilities Act

Kettle Cuisine complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state disability laws. This means we will not discriminate against qualified individuals with a disability in any phase of the employment relationship including application for employment, hiring, promotions and/or advancement opportunities, termination, compensation, training and any other conditions or privileges of employment.

Core Values

Kettle Cuisine takes the utmost pride in its people, products and reputation. Each employee is expected to understand and live our Core Values every day.

• Honor Food– We create and produce the best tasting, safest, all natural recipes that strive for perfection in every batch, from bench to kettle
• Honor Each Other– We seek to develop trusting, respectful and mutually rewarding relationships with all our team members and business partners
• Honor Development– We recognize and nurture each other’s talents, strengths and interests in order to further strengthen and grow our team
• Honor Innovation– We continually strive for creative and sustainable ways to achieve excellence

Qualifications