Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Sales

About the role

CHS is seeking an experienced finance leader and business partner to support our enterprise customer development team. This position will strengthen analytical capabilities, provide financial and decision support to enterprise-wide go-to-market (GTM) initiatives and help drive volume and margin growth opportunities across the CHS enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Lead team of finance professionals supporting the GTM business and leadership team
• Align finance associates to support enterprise wide GTM initiatives, ensuring optimal support and service
• Review work products prepared by team members to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to highest standards, providing constructive feedback and coaching
• Support the development of team members by sharing best practices, building technical and process knowledge, and increasing overall team capability and resiliency
• Act as a role model for ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, fostering a collaborative and high-performance reporting culture within the team
• Strengthen GTM and FP&A analytical capabilities
• Lead financial and analytical support for enterprise-level GTM initiatives from design to implementation to align GTM strategies with the company’s objectives; Partner with business and function leaders across the company to ensure successful execution once initiatives are launched
• Partner with GTM leaders to develop success metrics, and implementation plans; Establish timelines, monitor progress and evaluate ROI
• Analyze volume and margin performance by customer or customer segment; providing insights that clearly highlight risks and opportunities with recommended actions
• Build scalable financial models that support scenario planning with sensitivity analyses
• Support GTM initiatives to identify volume and margin growth opportunities across business
• Develop GTM reports to enable identification of sales and margin optimization opportunities for our wholesale and retail operations
• Partner with Strategy team for market trends and industry benchmarks to gather findings and insights that can be leveraged to improve GTM decision-making capabilities with formal communication to leaders
• Provide actionable insights, financial counsel to drive more favorable mix from focus products across the company
• Support ad hoc initiatives aligned with enterprise wide GTM strategic objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, or related field
• 4+ years of financial management experience including strategic and business planning, accounting, financial analysis, and project management
• Experience with team leadership, talent engagement and development

Additional Qualifications

• MBA/CPA/CMA
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills across organization and to senior leaders
• Experience with data visualization tools, SAP/BPC and CRM software
• Confirmed proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting
• Demonstrated learning agility with the ability to understand complex business problems
• Experienced 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 and handle multiple tasks at once
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization
• Experience with predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Previous experience providing financial support to sales and sales support team