Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial Finance
Company: Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN)
Location: Downers Grove
Posted on: May 7, 2022
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Job Description:
Glanbia Performance Nutrition is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Glanbia located in Downers Grove, Illinois. GPN's brand portfolio
consists of - Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Nutramino
ABB, Body & Fit, Amazing Grass and SlimFast , each with its own
brand essence. GPN manufactures and markets the full range of
performance nutrition and lifestyle products including protein,
pre-workout, muscle gainers, ready-to-eat snacks and general
health. Products are sold through a variety of channels including
specialty retail, the internet, gyms and FDM in a variety of
formats including powders, bars and Ready-to-Drink beverages. GPN
has a global and expanding footprint with a current in-market
presence in 24 countries.
Glanbia Performance Nutrition - Sr Financial Analyst
The Senior Financial Analyst position, reporting to the Finance
Manager, is an FP&A role within the America's Finance team with
responsibility for month-end reporting and analytics, commercial
support and insight, planning (budgeting & forecasting), and
short-term financial planning and analysis for Glanbia Performance
Nutrition. This will be focused on the Healthy Lifestyle brand
segment consisting of brands think!, Amazing Grass and Isopure
although will work closely with the rest of the CGO finance team
and other parts of the finance organization. This position will
work closely with other departments including Sales, Demand
Planning, Supply Chain, Marketing and R&D as a core member of
the Americas Finance function.
We offer a very flexible, hybrid work environment with our Smart
Working Model!
Key elements as a Senior Financial Analyst:
Detailed monthly gross sales reporting and variance analysis with a
focus on understanding and explaining the underlying drivers of
brand and product performance
Detailed budgeting and forecasting across the variances parts of
the P&L, Including Sale's, DD&A, COGS, Overheads and
Marketing.
Working directly with cross functional teams to understand key
drivers of the financial performance and to maintain rolling
forecasts to help project and estimate future business
performance
Supporting the commercial teams including but not limited to
consumption analysis, pricing analysis, data analytics and
insights, reporting and explaining business results, and
forecasting future business performance.
Creating new reports and analyses to help deepen our understanding
of our brand performance across key customers and brands
Preparing P&L models, profitability analysis, and price/volume
analysis at a granular level
Maintaining integrity of master data associated with brand and
product detail
Supporting ad-hoc projects and analyses within the CGO Finance or
broader Americas finance team
Support commercial teams around promotional planning and decision
making
Required Skills:
Strong business acumen and understanding of financial planning and
variance analysis
Ability to explain business performance and craft the story to
multiple audiences
Ability to use data to help educate others and influence commercial
decision-making
Strong accounting knowledge to understand the financial statement
impact of commercial decisions
Critical thinking skills including the ability to identify a
business issue and propose solutions
Self-starter comfortable communicating at various levels of the
organization while also diving into the details
Highly accurate in performing tasks, cross-checking work, and
strong ability to manage and work proficiently with large sets of
data
Advanced Excel and experience with ERP systems, preferably SAP and
Business Objects
Required Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Finance or similar
Scalable candidate with demonstrated potential to progress in the
organization
3-5 years of relevant experience in a finance function, preferably
in a commercial finance or FP&A role
CPG experience preferred
Glanbia Performance Nutrition has enjoyed consistent double-digit
growth which has been achieved both organically and through
acquisition. Today, GPN has approximately $1.2B in revenue and
2,500 employees worldwide. With state-of-the-art production
facilities occupying over 500,000 square feet of operating space,
GPN is the only sports nutrition company to manufacture and market
items in every product category.
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our
individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and
encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will
give your application consideration, without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity,
national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or
disability status.
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