What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Planning Analyst position at Flora Food Group?
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories : butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
About the position
Location : Hackensack
Salary : 70-80K
Hybrid
2-3 Days per week
Finance Analyst | Hackensack, NJ
About the Role
This role will provide you with an understanding of the overall financial P&L in a CPG company. You will learn to develop financial plans and analyze monthly, quarterly, annual results and variances to plan, that allow the leadership team to proactively manage the business results.
Main Responsibilities
As a core member of the financial planning and analysis team, you will be required to :
- Develop monthly / quarterly / annual financial forecasts and budgets for the organization.
- Provide financial analysis on business results by comparing to forecast / budgets, in order to drive insights that will improve business performance.
- Support proactive analysis of business risks and opportunities.
- Prepare flexible financial models with clean and insightful outputs.
- Develop reports that help business counterparts track performance and help explain any variances to expectations.
- Provide Ad-hoc support to team and business partners through data analysis for various financial business scenarios and core business processes.
- Support FP&A team on month end close processes including reconciliations of accruals and posting required journal entries.
- Assist with the internal and external audit processes
- Provide support on new business projects and initiatives
About you!
You possess business curiosity, strong work ethic, proactiveness, positive attitude, great communication skills, organizational skills and excellent attention to detail. You have strong analytical skills, with ability to handle large amounts of data, that can be analyzed and summarized in a way, that management can easily understand and drive business actions. You will have the ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines and be able to prioritize accordingly.
Minimum Requirements :
About Flora!
We are the largest plant-based company in the world, and we believe in doing what's right for our people, our customers and the planet.
At Flora our purpose is clear : we make people healthier and happier with nutritious and delicious, natural, plant-based products that are good for you, our planet; and with packaging that's free from plastic. We've got iconic brands like Rama, Country Crock, Blue Band and Flora that people all over the world know and love. We've been a trusted category leader since 1871 and yet we feel like we're only just getting started.
Performance, Passion and Care define who we are as a company, how we work every day, and the responsibility we feel toward our Associates, our consumers, our business partners and our world.
We are a highly entrepreneurial fast-paced team running a multi-billion Euro business across 60 countries with the mind-set of a start-up! We are agile, creative, fast-to-market and obsessed with customers and consumers.
What's next
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now!
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
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