Senior Financial Analyst - Agronomy

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for leading FP&A activity for the Crop Protection business. This includes, but is not limited to, financial budgeting/LRP (Long-Range Planning), forecasting and financial decision analysis & business support. This position will prepare and execute financial analysis and communicate complex information clearly to all levels of management.

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Responsibilities

Strengthen Financial Forecasting & Analytical Capabilities

• Partner with business units to enhance financial forecasting capabilities and increase forecast accuracy.

• Partner with FP&A to develop financial dashboards, models and reports for Commercial Leadership and Divisional Leaders.

• Leads process improvement projects that focus on budgeting and long-range planning.

Lead Annual Budget/LRP & Quarterly Forecast Process

• Lead the enterprise planning process, including the annual budget, long range plan and quarterly forecasts.

• Conduct long-range plan and quarterly forecast analysis to identify historical trends, drivers of growth and track against enterprise and business-specific strategic initiatives.

• Facilitate quarterly cost savings and expense management analysis to drive deeper understanding and management of spending across the business.

Provide Financial Decision Analysis & Support

• Uses established guidelines and financial analysis to identify trends and assists commercial teams to uncover solutions to improve margins and/or reduce risk.

• Analyze financial data, market trends, and industry benchmarks to gather findings and insights that can be leveraged to improve the BU decision making capabilities; prepare appropriate communications to leaders.

• Enable decision making via the delivery of high impact financial analyses to Crop Protection and Corporate leadership.

• Lead the efforts of the Business Intelligence team to develop/improve sophisticated predictive analytics and forecasting models.

• Assist / Lead ad-hoc projects at the request of supervisor and other leadership.

General Accounting

• Provide support to the General Accounting teams as necessary, including inventory, asset, and other analyses.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Business, Business Administration, or related field

• 4+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning and Analysis

Additional Qualifications

• Ability to solve complex problems using precedent, judgement, and technical experience; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

• An in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of budgeting, long-range planning and forecasting processes as well as various financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Statement of Cash Flow).

• Confirmed proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting.

• Demonstrated learning agility with the ability to understand business problems.

• Proficient user of ERP systems and forecasting tools as well as strong experience working with various types of data and information.

• Excellent organizational skills, ability to work independently with minimal guidance and handle multiple tasks at once.

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to provide informal guidance to new team members and thrive in a team environment.

• Possess a continuous improvement mindset with the desire to support and lead change initiatives.

• Knowledge of US GAAP

• Previous experience in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and advanced Excel skills, including the ability to manipulate spreadsheets, create pivot tables and summarize data from multiple sources

Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care savings accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.