What are the responsibilities and job description for the Jr Pricing Analyst position at S&D Coffee?
The Jr. Pricing Analyst is an entry level role with a mix of on-the-job training as well as continuous education and mentorship, from the Pricing Team at large, committed to the candidate's successful future at Westrock.
Job Duties:
- Manage customer profitability reports and dashboards that show customer health indicators.
- Own, analyze and propose updates to customer tiering ( who are top tier customers) and communicate throughout the business for reporting consistency.
- Utilize customer dashboards and health reports to identify get well opportunities and bring those to the pricing team for discussion and implement improvement plans that ideated.
- Evaluate service programs and financial health and purpose actions to improve customer profitability or service programs are a liability.
- Own loaned equipment and capex reporting. Ensure customers with loaned equipment are being adequately charged for equipment and financially healthy.
- Creates and refines complex financial information such as profit and loss, lease versus buy and cash flow modeling and spreadsheet format.
- Create, organizes, and presents financial spreadsheet data to various levels of management.
- Analyze the impact of price changes, recommends adjustments to price standards, and strategizes to support business objectives.
- Gain basic understanding of inputs and pricing models for the manufacture of all packaged liquid goods.
- Use this accounting and operational systems to identify and analyze business trends.
- Analyze and maintains updated internal product cost information.
- Interfaces with product development and global sourcing on new product cost.
- Interfaces with sales personnel to assess historical and projected customer profitability.
- Develops and maintains both financial models and financial forecast for management.
- Serves as resource for sales personnel on product cost.
- Maintenance of customer specific pricing data.
- Maintenance of documentation for SOX compliance for pricing controls.
- Distribution and maintenance of customer specific pricing data.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree and experience an accounting, finance, data analytics or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability to work under pressure and produce high quality products within time constraints.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. The ability to sanity-check analytical results is key.
- Able to follow instructions without repetition.
- Self starter, able to define and achieve goals without direct supervision
- Able to extract core concepts from complex issues, similar to solving a word problem.
- Strong desire and work ethic to learn and understand the fundamentals as a foundation for career growth.
- Familiarity with fluid and solid unit conversion between standards is preferred but not required.
- High to advanced Excel skills required.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Vets / Disabled
