Senior Financial Analyst - Global Nutrition Group (11539BR) Chicago, Illinois
The Sales Financial Analyst manages, analyzes and provides support for all financial streams related to the selling of Wave products.
Essential functions of this position:
- Review promotions and Customer pricing
- Consolidate customer financial forecasts
- Prepare AOP customer-level Sales and Trade targets
- Prepare and analyze Period Sales and Trade reports
- Manage trade event planning
- Monitor, track and present customer trade performance vs. AOP
- Support Sales with Incremental Funding Requests
- Prepare post-event analyses
Main Interactions Within & Outside Organization:
- Collaborate with multiple Sales Strategy and Field Sales personnel
- Present period and year-to-date actual results and formal forecasts to the Wave leadership team.
- Work with Controller's Organization and Shared Services groups to coordinate reporting and planning activities.
Qualifications:
- BS Accounting/Finance required; MBA preferred.
- 3+ years of Accounting and Finance experience.
- Ability to quickly analyze issues, prepare comprehensive analysis & provide insights for identifying/solving specific issues.
- Ability to highlight issues & provide clear communication to broad audience that will assist in driving change.
- Excellent organization, presentation and communication skills.
- Good people skills to manage information-gathering requests and have a positive influence on team members.
- Results oriented, able to complete assignments in a timely and accurate manner.
- Self-directed with an ability to juggle multiple priorities
- SAP knowledge to understand processes and analytical data.
- Must be willing and able to travel 10-15% of the time.