What are the responsibilities and job description for the FINANCIAL ANALYST position at Request Foods?
Role Description :
The role is an on-site position located at our headquarters in Holland, MI.
Request Foods is hiring an FP&A Analyst. In this position your areas of responsibility will include tracking financial performance against a plan, analyzing business performance and market conditions to forecast, and providing decision support to senior management via accurate reporting and analysis to drive improved performance, efficiency, and profitability. This role is also responsible for leading specialized finance-related activities in support of ColdQuest, Request Foods cold storage business, including financial analysis and pricing. This position reports to the Director of Finance.
Essential Responsibilities :
- Providing reporting and analysis on the Companys financial results, key performance metrics, and performance versus budget and prior year
- Preparing management presentations regarding the Companys financial performance
- Building annual budgets and forecasts, and liaising with department heads
- Providing department heads reporting on their spend versus their targets
- Creating financial models to predict growth and forecast performance
- Calculating the Companys profitability by customer and product line
- Evaluating new and existing investment projects to determine their return on investment
- Supporting the Companys cold storage business by providing all budgeting, financial reporting, planning and analysis of cold storage warehouse operations and related pricing. Evaluating performance against KPIs and providing insightful recommendations for performance improvement.
- Assisting management of customer inventories to ensure customers are meeting contract obligations and operational efficiency of cold storage strategies
- Evaluation of profitability on accounts by analyzing rates against operational cost to drive efficiencies
- Reviewing customer contracts for the cold storage warehouse to understand business profile and rate structure needed to support business
- Analyzing industry trends, current best practices, operational efficiency opportunities, etc. and making recommendations based on those trends
- Supporting various pricing initiatives for the core manufacturing business including inventory costing, tracking obsolescence, vendor bill backs and disposition of such inventory
Key Requirements :
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty effectively. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
