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Associate Financial Analyst

Chaucer Foods - Los Angeles, CA

$50,000 - $60,000 a year - Remote (temporarily available, COVID-19)

About Us:

We provide ingredients, products, and solutions that create real value for our customers, with first-class support for innovation and exceptional customer service. We help our customers to solve problems and realize opportunities in their marketplace. Our core strengths lie in the development, manufacturing, and application of baked ingredients and freeze-dried fruit, vegetables, and dairy. We work with leading food manufacturers and retailers across the globe and are developing innovative applications that add value. We use our unrivaled global reach, manufacturing footprint, and integrated planning process to deliver solutions with consistent quality, across the world.

EXPECTATIONS & DEVELOPMENT

As a member of the Chaucer Consumer team, we expect you to be accountable for your actions, to challenge ex isting processes and to grow both professionally and personally. This means having the willingness to claim 100% ownership for results, both individually and collectively with others and to “think outside of the box” when it comes to processes, policies, and strategies.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Associate Financial Analyst will support the Finance team and senior leadership of the company in performing financial planning, analysis and reporting for the company’s various operations. This will include, but is not limited to, assisting in budgeting, long-term planning, forecasting, variance analysis, project analysis, decision support, financial and operational reporting, etc. The Associate Financial Analyst will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, becoming a subject matter expert on the financial performance of operating units and provide valued input on the expected financial impact from taking potential courses of action.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Assist with reviewing, analyze, and communicate findings on a comprehensive array of financial issues. Provide information and financial analysis to assist senior management in developing its strategic planning and efficiently operating the company.

· Learn and sufficiently understand the drivers of the Chaucer Consumer Group’s operations to ensure that the financial and operational support for senior management and other teams is customized to, and aligned with, company objectives and context.

· Creates/updates, communicates and maintains a comprehensive monthly Management Pack applicable to Chaucer’s financial planning, monthly reporting, variance analysis, and decision support processes.

· Assists with the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, operating plan and modeling tools for the senior management team.

· Maintains financial reporting templates and recommends improvements as needed.

· Assists with developing financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives.

· Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, expenses, and operations.

· Perform ad hoc financial analysis and reports with reliable conclusions.

Qualifications:

· Thorough understanding of financial budgeting and forecasting concepts and modeling. Ability to employ complex analytical tools and statistics to perform analysis and forecasting of financial and other business information.

· Demonstrated ability to use technology to gather, clean, extract and transfer information/data.

· Demonstrated ability to make quantitative and qualitative assessments of data.

· Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, continuously changing, environment.

· Demonstrated ability to work within ambiguity, identify and solve complex problems.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into a concise message and experience interacting with senior management.

· Ability to work independently, effectively handle multiple competing priorities and manage deadlines under pressure.

· Works with integrity in a manner consistent with Chaucer’s values and ethics.

· High accountability that delivers on commitments and holds others to the same.

· Entrepreneurial spirit and thrives in a fast paced, evolving environment.

Education:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or similar quantitative field of study.

· 1-3 plus years of experience in financial planning and analysis and/or corporate finance. Extensive experience in financial modeling.

· Knowledge of Consumer Packaged Goods, manufacturing, distribution or retail industries preferred.

· Advanced Excel skills are a must, SAP is a plus.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $50,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Experience:

· Financial Analysis: 3 years (Preferred)

· SAP: 3 years (Preferred)

Education:

· Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work Location:

· One location

Company's website:

· https://chaucerfoods.com/

Work Remotely:

· Temporarily due to COVID-19