Senior Financial Analyst - Yoplait

Description

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?
At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you're just starting out or bringing years of experience, we'll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy-a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We're building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact.

Requirements

From your PASSION to ours

The Senior Financial Analyst position at our Reed City plant offers an exciting and differentiating opportunity to build your knowledge of Supply Chain! In this role you will gain important experiences, including working on productivity and transformational initiatives, building and executing a financial plan, partnering with plant operations to support business results and the plant mission, building a strong controls environment, and analyzing metrics to provide business insights.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Developing, executing, and monitoring the annual operating plan for our Milk Plant including periodic financial forecasts, cream sale settlement/invoicing and monthly financial close.
• Providing receipt, utilization and production information for the Federal Milk Market and USDA.
• Developing and updating as needed white mass base Bill of Materials.
• Monitoring financial performance and developing plans to close any gaps to plant targets, including communication with applicable platforms.
• Supporting site delivery of annual productivity targets.
• Ensuring effective financial controls for inventory and reporting.
• Maintaining audit-ready status of internal controls through periodic review and self-audit.
• Providing support and leadership on cross functional plant and corporate initiatives.
• Providing fill-in coverage to the Finance Manager as needed.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or business with accounting experience
• 1+ years of related experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work well on a team and build effective relationships across all levels of the organization
• Initiative-taking, self-starter with attention to detail, able to establish processes, make process improvements, and effectively organize own work
• Willingness to get outside of traditional financial roles to support plant operations
• Able to identify and extract the right data from financial systems to provide meaningful analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of related experience
• Experience working in a finance/accounting role within manufacturing
• Working knowledge of Warehouse Management software
• Experience in food manufacturing

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.