Financial Analyst, Operations

Sargento Foods • St Cloud, WI

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

Your Passion. Our Culture. At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you’re ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here. Benefits that set us apart. Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance Remote ½ day Fridays Onsite Health & Wellness Center Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation Relocation Assistance Tuition Assistance Access to Employee Store What You Do. Responsible for understanding production order data, providing quality assurances of data including integrity checks, data cleansing and leading work to correct data as needed. Serve as the knowledge expert for plant on production order confirmation process and provide assistance, training, or interpretation of the data. Create, maintain, and distribute reports to aid in the measurement of plant performance, including the tracking of plant incentive goals or other reports as requested. Own the processes to prepare, analyze, and communicate plant line efficiency, material usage, and yield performance. Inclusive of detailed analysis and reporting for giveaway, scrap, trim reporting. Proactively bring recommendations and insights to team for continuous improvements. Connect operational trends, challenges, and changes to bring stronger insights to financial results. Provide support to the plant forecast process for areas of assigned financial accountability (i.e. line efficiency, material usage, maintenance, etc.) Develop strong working relationships with production departments and leadership. Leverage these relationships to ensure there is a thorough understanding of production order analysis and financial results. Elevate issues as appropriate to the Plant Finance Manager. Own all plant Maintenance expenditure reporting, analysis, and communication. Provide insights and analytics on trends and how operational performance has impacted maintenance spend. Responsible for reviewing, analyzing, BOMs and Routings as needed. Identify updates that maybe required and make recommendations for changes. Set up regular reviews with department heads to discuss if changes are warranted. Collaborate with master data to implement changes identified. Actively engaged with supporting plant continuous improvement activities, including items like monthly cost savings reporting as well as assisting cost savings analytics. Assist Plant Finance Manager, Central Finance teams, and Plant Operations team with ad hoc financial analysis of reporting that can aide production in understanding variances. Facilitate the costing of new products in SAP. This process would be inclusive of technically entering necessary data into SAP and validating results are in line with expected cost estimate expectations provided by the business units while hitting the expected turnaround time. Work through discrepancies with Master Data, Business Units, and Production Managers. As needed raise questions where there are unique situations to the Plant Finance Manager. Your Education and Experience. Bachelors Degree (B.A.) in Accounting or Finance from four-year college or university and two or more years financial reporting or accounting experience. Our Story. With over 2,400+ employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world’s first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry. To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en. #LI-MR1

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree (B.A.) in Accounting or Finance from four-year college or university and two or more years financial reporting or accounting experience.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding production order data, providing quality assurances of data including integrity checks, data cleansing and leading work to correct data as needed.
• Serve as the knowledge expert for plant on production order confirmation process and provide assistance, training, or interpretation of the data.
• Create, maintain, and distribute reports to aid in the measurement of plant performance, including the tracking of plant incentive goals or other reports as requested.
• Own the processes to prepare, analyze, and communicate plant line efficiency, material usage, and yield performance.
• Inclusive of detailed analysis and reporting for giveaway, scrap, trim reporting.
• Proactively bring recommendations and insights to team for continuous improvements.
• Connect operational trends, challenges, and changes to bring stronger insights to financial results.
• Provide support to the plant forecast process for areas of assigned financial accountability (i.e. line efficiency, material usage, maintenance, etc.)
• Develop strong working relationships with production departments and leadership.
• Leverage these relationships to ensure there is a thorough understanding of production order analysis and financial results.
• Elevate issues as appropriate to the Plant Finance Manager.
• Own all plant Maintenance expenditure reporting, analysis, and communication.
• Provide insights and analytics on trends and how operational performance has impacted maintenance spend.
• Responsible for reviewing, analyzing, BOMs and Routings as needed.
• Identify updates that maybe required and make recommendations for changes.
• Set up regular reviews with department heads to discuss if changes are warranted.
• Collaborate with master data to implement changes identified.
• Actively engaged with supporting plant continuous improvement activities, including items like monthly cost savings reporting as well as assisting cost savings analytics.
• Assist Plant Finance Manager, Central Finance teams, and Plant Operations team with ad hoc financial analysis of reporting that can aide production in understanding variances.
• Facilitate the costing of new products in SAP.
• This process would be inclusive of technically entering necessary data into SAP and validating results are in line with expected cost estimate expectations provided by the business units while hitting the expected turnaround time.
• Work through discrepancies with Master Data, Business Units, and Production Managers.
• As needed raise questions where there are unique situations to the Plant Finance Manager.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Remote ½ day Fridays
• Onsite Health & Wellness Center
• Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation
• Relocation Assistance
• Tuition Assistance
• Access to Employee Store

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level