Finance Analyst
Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Finance Analyst performs moderately complex managerial accounting activities in support of financial decision making. With limited supervision, this job drafts financial reports, analyzes financial data and prepares budgeting and forecasting processes. This job also participates in the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions.
Key Accountabilities
- REPORT DRAFTING: Drafts moderately complex financial and non financial reports for internal partners by gathering, prioritizing and analyzing financial and non financial data and key performance indicators.
- BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TRACKING: Prepares reports and dashboards to track business performance against plans, budgets, forecasts and other key performance indicators and draws linkages between non financial key performance indicators and actual costs for effective tracking, analysis and reporting.
- DECISION SUPPORT: Identifies insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making.
- COST ANALYSIS: Analyzes costs associated with products, projects, or specific plants to help better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Participates in continuous improvement initiatives within the department by researching industry trends and accounting standards and finding opportunities to improve data integrity and relevancy and to increase effectiveness and efficiency of management information systems and reporting standards.
- MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Implements the approved effective management reporting practices to ensure data integrity and relevancy and to communicate the reporting and costs at the local level.
- RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Maintains positive relationships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs.
- RISK & CONTROL REPORTING: Reviews various moderately complex reports including risk and mitigation controls reports, custom transaction code reports and sensitive role reports for gap assessment and cleanup activities to identify and address any gaps, vulnerabilities, or inefficiencies in an organization's control environment.
Position Information
- Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
Qualifications
Minimum Required
- 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
- SAP experience
- Proficient with Excel
Preferred
- Accounting degree or similar knowledge
- Cost accounting experience
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