Financial Analyst

Overview

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world.

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Givaudan Flavors Corporation

Financial Analyst

375 Huyler Street, South Hackensack, NJ 07606

Less than 5% travel across the U.S.

$150,000 - $170,000 per year

• Conduct financial analysis to support management in strategic decision making for the site.
• Review and analyze the site trends, costs, revenues, and financial commitments and identify variances versus budget.
• Analyze and evaluate monthly KPI’s and financial statements and provide management with detailed reports.
• Provide financial analysis and analytical support to Americas Region Operations head.
• Participate in forecasting and mid-to long term planning for the factory.
• Provide business support to the local operations Manager to ensure efficiency and compliance.
• Provide recommendations on inventory management.
• Contribute to annual and periodic requirements of costing activities and analysis of cost of goods (COGS).
• Review COGS summary with management.
• Coordinate changes in master templates with local operations.
• Provide input into recipe templates from a costing perspective.
• Analyze and explain local product margins.
• Support site management with the development and analysis of business plans, budgets, forecasts, cost savings opportunities, etc.
• Respond to pricing and commercial controlling requests in a timely manner.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field, or the foreign degree equivalent, and 4 years of experience as a Financial Central Forecaster, Pricing Lead, or alternate acceptable occupation.
• International experience in the Food & Beverage manufacturing industry.
• Assigning costs to products for accurate and timely costing (wages, overheads, and freights).
• Utilizing reporting tools, including SAP and JEDOX for software reporting operations expenditures, data extraction/consolidation, and financial analysis and budgeting activities.
• Implementing continuous improvement initiatives by evolving, streamlining, and automating processes, policies, and procedures in a manufacturing plant environment.
• Performing interpretive and predictive data analysis in the Food & Beverage international marketplace to identify key risks and opportunities for enhanced profitability.
• Collaborating with global accounts to build financial plans, including annual sales and operational expense budgets.
• Understanding the impact of changes in costs (raw materials, volume, efficiency/productivity and overhead initiatives) on the gross margin to support business decisions on pricing and sales.
• Performing financial consolidation to support management with commercial organization decision making.
• Operating in a matrixed environment aligning terminology and processes across sites, management levels and geographical areas of responsibility.
• Communicating with shop floor employees to address financial risks and opportunities.

Submit resumes for the Financial Analyst position through Givaudan’s Careers page on our official website () by searching for the job title to locate and apply for the role.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives. You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions. Diversity of perspectives fuels innovation and fosters deeper connections with our employees, customers, and partners. At Givaudan, we are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive environment where every individual’s voice is valued and has the power to shape our world.

Join us in making a difference together.