Principal Business Analyst Mountain, or Pacific Time Zones

Role Overview

The Principal Business Analyst role is responsible for critical components of the Company's internal management reporting, including monthly internal management reporting, financial analysis, and budgeting.

• Analyze complex business challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and design impactful solutions to align with organization goals.
• Collaborate with Field Leadership to translate business needs into actionable projects and initiatives providing high level insights and strategic recommendations.
• Communicate complex financial data and insights in a clear and actionable manner to non-financial stakeholders.

• Act as the main point of contact for key stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication of business needs, changes, and progress.
• Develop strong relationships with executive teams, department heads, and other business units to facilitate collaboration and drive business initiatives forward.
• Lead meetings and presentations to gather feedback, align expectations, manage stakeholder concerns and layout findings, including actionable insights, to leadership teams.

• Conduct detailed financial analysis to support decision-making processes.
• Analyze and interpret financial reports, including profit & loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.
• Monitor and track key financial metrics, identifying trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop regular automated and ad-hoc financial/other reports for senior management, stakeholders, and other key business units.

• Assist in the preparation and management of annual budgets.
• Develop accurate financial forecasts to predict future financial outcomes based on current data and trends.

• Analyze business processes and financial operations to identify inefficiencies and recommend process improvements.
• Provide data-driven insights to help streamline financial and operational procedures.

• 3-5 years of financial and/or business analytics experience, professional designation is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving, and the ability to handle multiple responsibilities effectively.
• Strong understanding of accounting standards and financial concepts with an ability to clearly communicate with a diverse audience.
• Skills in taking broad and sometimes complex issues, simplifying findings, and effectively communicating with audiences with limited accounting/financials experience.
• Experience taking data from multiple sources and projecting future outcomes.
• Exceptional MS Excel skills are required.
• Experience with Power BI is required.
• Experience with Planful, other database tools, VBA, and/or SQL a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (Master's or MBA is a plus).

• You're highly motivated, organized, detail oriented, and a team player.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You can travel 10%-15% of the time.
• You are skilled in building and fostering strong relationships across a diverse team with varying interests, perspectives and directives.
• You have certifications such as CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional).
• You have experience in Decision Support (preferred).
• You have experience in the agriculture industry (preferred).

• Base compensation ranges from $110,100 to $154,260, varying by location, skills, and experience.
• Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and vacation, holidays, health, dental, vision, mental health, and retirement plan participation, including an employer contribution of up to 7% into your 401(k). For more information on employee benefits, visit

Diversity of people, cultures, opinions, and ideas makes us all stronger. From leadership commitment to employee buy-in, we know that creating an inclusive environment and providing opportunities for all employees to reach their full potential is a shared responsibility.