About the role
Sr. Finance Analyst - Food Manufacturing
Your seat at the table
- Accountable for the plant financial reporting, spend management, annual budgeting, variance investigation, financial modeling, and productivity forecasting.
- Ensures that the plant team operates with a high level of fiscal integrity in accounting practices, financial reporting and decision making.
- Collaborates with plant leadership team to provide financial impact analysis and recommendations on cost savings, loss avoidance, and risk mitigation.
- Supports all plant initiatives for the capital and non-capital project by validating cost assumptions, productivity savings, and providing recommendations.
- Contributes ideas and solutions to Plant Leadership Team to improve long-term and short-term strategic initiatives and on day-to-day operational productivity.
- Teams up with Commercial Finance to develop new product costing models; monitor and assess productivity impact of new product startups at plant.
- Fosters collaboration amongst teams and influences up, down, and across organization levels to improve cross-functional financial acumen and financially informed decision making.
- Has a forward-thinking mindset and is resilient, adaptable and curious.
- Identifies issues, diagnoses problems, research best practices and generates alternatives to drive continuous improvement of financial processes and productivity outcomes with urgency.
- Is an active presence on the production floor, interacting with associates while emphasizing safety and proactively seeking out areas of opportunity to drive productivity improvement.
- Shares information in a clear and engaging way that helps teams to understand and apply, across all levels of the organization.
- Able to synthesize large quantities of data into actionable insights.
- Ability to manage multiple sites and willing to travel between USA & Canada
What you bring to the table
- More than 7 years of relevant work experience
- Having a bachelors degree in relevant field of education is minimum
- Experience in a food manufacturing set up
- Ability to analyze financial reports and recommend changes benefiting the increase in profits of the business
- Knowledge and ability to adhere to compliance
- ability to implement and practice accounting policies
- MBA / CFA / CMA / Cost accounting certificate is preferable
- Working knowledge and ability to work on advance MS excel and MS powerpoint is a must
About Shearer's Foods, LLC
Shearer’s is a privately held producer, leading co-manufacturer and distributor of quality snack foods sold under the Shearer’s brand, and other private labels. Ranking number one in private brand and contract manufactured salty snacks, as well as the number two supplier of private brand cookies and crackers in North America, you love our products, although you may not be familiar with our name! We utilize our manufacturing expertise to serve as a strategic supplier to our partners, who are nationally recognized retail and restaurant brands. With exceptional competence in product development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution, we continue to embrace significant growth in each segment of our business. Headquartered in Massillon, Ohio, we have over 5,000 associates in 12 state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution sites in North America.
About the role
Sr. Finance Analyst - Food Manufacturing
Your seat at the table
- Accountable for the plant financial reporting, spend management, annual budgeting, variance investigation, financial modeling, and productivity forecasting.
- Ensures that the plant team operates with a high level of fiscal integrity in accounting practices, financial reporting and decision making.
- Collaborates with plant leadership team to provide financial impact analysis and recommendations on cost savings, loss avoidance, and risk mitigation.
- Supports all plant initiatives for the capital and non-capital project by validating cost assumptions, productivity savings, and providing recommendations.
- Contributes ideas and solutions to Plant Leadership Team to improve long-term and short-term strategic initiatives and on day-to-day operational productivity.
- Teams up with Commercial Finance to develop new product costing models; monitor and assess productivity impact of new product startups at plant.
- Fosters collaboration amongst teams and influences up, down, and across organization levels to improve cross-functional financial acumen and financially informed decision making.
- Has a forward-thinking mindset and is resilient, adaptable and curious.
- Identifies issues, diagnoses problems, research best practices and generates alternatives to drive continuous improvement of financial processes and productivity outcomes with urgency.
- Is an active presence on the production floor, interacting with associates while emphasizing safety and proactively seeking out areas of opportunity to drive productivity improvement.
- Shares information in a clear and engaging way that helps teams to understand and apply, across all levels of the organization.
- Able to synthesize large quantities of data into actionable insights.
- Ability to manage multiple sites and willing to travel between USA & Canada
What you bring to the table
- More than 7 years of relevant work experience
- Having a bachelors degree in relevant field of education is minimum
- Experience in a food manufacturing set up
- Ability to analyze financial reports and recommend changes benefiting the increase in profits of the business
- Knowledge and ability to adhere to compliance
- ability to implement and practice accounting policies
- MBA / CFA / CMA / Cost accounting certificate is preferable
- Working knowledge and ability to work on advance MS excel and MS powerpoint is a must
About Shearer's Foods, LLC
Shearer’s is a privately held producer, leading co-manufacturer and distributor of quality snack foods sold under the Shearer’s brand, and other private labels. Ranking number one in private brand and contract manufactured salty snacks, as well as the number two supplier of private brand cookies and crackers in North America, you love our products, although you may not be familiar with our name! We utilize our manufacturing expertise to serve as a strategic supplier to our partners, who are nationally recognized retail and restaurant brands. With exceptional competence in product development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution, we continue to embrace significant growth in each segment of our business. Headquartered in Massillon, Ohio, we have over 5,000 associates in 12 state-of-the-art manufacturing and distribution sites in North America.