Finance Analyst
Position Purpose
Provides the organization with data and analysis to evaluate performance and drive key business initiatives.
Major / Key Accountabilities
- Manage weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-year, and year-end reporting and analysis functions for retail business
- Assist in organizing and providing problem resolution associated with the company-wide budget and forecast processes, strategic plan and other key financial modelling
- Prepare and validate analysis of key financial presentations including reporting of monthly and YTD KPIs, forecast, budget, and strategic plan presentations
- Develop recommendations of key initiatives to improve the profitability of the business
- Serve as back-up for key recurring responsibilities of Sales Forecasting, Pricing and general FP&A needs
- Other duties as assigned
Measures
- Volume of Trips and Recollections
- EBITDA
- RPC turns
- Employee productivity Scope
Annual Revenue Budget : $298M
Countries : 3 (US, Canada, Mexico)
Authority / Decision Making : Involved with the development and analysis of the Trips and Recollections Budget and Forecast final approval lies with senior management
Challenges
- High sense of urgency for many requests
- Regularly managing competing priorities
- Working autonomously with limited guidance
- Working with multiple personality types
- Analysing large volumes of data with limited systems capabilities
Key Contacts
Internal : FP&A Director, FP&A Managers, CFO, CEO, Walmart Team
External : This position works regularly with the Grower and Retail Sales teams which deal directly with the customer and retailer
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
- Strong Microsoft Office skills- primarily in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook Experience
- Minimum 1 year of experience in Finance or Accounting with degree or commensurate business experience required
- Experience in Planning and Analysis preferred
Skills and Knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required as well as the ability to prepare and deliver complex presentations to Senior Management
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to organize and efficiently analyse large data sets
- Strong process management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite including advanced proficiency in Excel
Languages
Required : English
Desirable : Spanish
We are looking forward to receiving your application.
Reverse Logistics Analyst
Reverse Logistics Analyst - Tampa, FL
Position Purpose
Increase pool turn speed and reduce asset loss.
Major / Key Accountabilities - Reverse Logistics Execution
- Maintain a high level of service while meeting budgeted goals related to the collection of assets from an out of network supply chain
- Implement multilevel control programs to manage loss prevention and asset tracking
- Contribute to continuous improvement of collection costs and service levels through effective monitoring of distributor back haul programs and LTL collections
- Work with internal stakeholders to share metrics and performance as well as to build a better understanding of our relationship with customers and their specifics of their supply chains
- Identify and implement process improvements
- Provide training to other team members
- Resolve escalating / high profile issues
- Lead and execute complex projects
- Collaborate with our transport and operations teams to find cost savings
- Travel to supply chain locations
Analysis
- Develop internal reporting and analysis to drive action with transportation, retailers, customers, and other nodes of our supply chain
- Own our team’s data and understand other teams’ data
- Report to leadership on KPIs with recommendations on how to improve areas of opportunity
- Other duties as assigned
Authority / Decision Making
- Scope of data analysis and data used
- Process changes internally and externally regarding reporting
- Transportation changes to balance our network
- Recommendations to influence other departments
Challenges
- Shift in priorities based on immediate demands
- Manage and support key performance indicators
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Identifying locations where loss occurred
- Discovering actionable data to improve company performance
- Working with locations that have less of an incentive than us to change processes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or other related degrees
- Proficient in MS Office, VBA experience a plus
Experience
- Minimum 3 years of Supply Chain and / or Transportation experience
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results
- History of working in a fast-paced corporate environment
- Inventory Management experience preferred
- Prior experience with SAP
Skills and Knowledge
- Problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and constraints
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Willingness to support other team members, in addition to normal responsibilities
We are looking forward to receiving your application.