Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Finance
for each section present: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections where posting has real specific content. Let's parse. The posting includes: - Reporting to Supply Chain Finance Manager, you will perform advanced financial analysis supporting Grocery supply chain performance, including product costing, cost of goods sold variances, forecasting, and financial reporting. You will partner with Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance teams to provide insights and recommendations that support sound business decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and drive financial performance across the organization. That's about the role: could be "About the role". We'll put that in
. Then "A Taste Of Your Responsibilities" heading then list of responsibilities. So we need Responsibilities section with
- items.
List items:
- Manage and deliver the financial forecast in collaboration with Supply Chain business partners, including Plant Finance, Enterprise Procurement Finance, Transportation and Warehousing Finance, and contract manufacturing partners.
- Coordinate accurate and timely variance-to-plan and variance-to-forecast reporting and communicate results to Operations and Supply Chain leadership.
- Lead month-end close and forecast processes, including monitoring progress, resolving issues, and ensuring deadlines are achieved.
- Translate manufacturing activity and costs into Brand profit and loss impacts and communicate results to Brand Finance and Brand Management teams.
- Ensure compliance with established financial control requirements.
- Provide variance analysis, recommendations, and strategies to improve financial performance.
- Partner with plant controllers and finance teams to analyze manufacturing costs, capital expenditures, and balance sheet performance.
- Support annual planning and forecasting activities.
- Implement and improve systems and processes that support forecasting, planning, and tracking manufacturing activity and costs.
- Train business partners on financial processes and procedures.
- Provide ad hoc financial and statistical analysis to Operations, Brand, and Finance teams.
- Lead the cost estimate process and collaborate with research, quality, innovation, manufacturing, and operations partners on new product and product renovation costing.
Now "Ingredients Required For Your Success" heading then list of requirements. This could be Requirements or Qualifications. The content includes:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related degree required.
- 5+ years of professional finance, accounting, or related business experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling capabilities.
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, including leveraging analytics, benchmarking, and insights to develop meaningful strategies and solutions.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the capacity to work effectively across multiple levels of the organization.
- Experience supporting forecasting, financial planning, variance analysis, and reporting.
- Knowledge of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, and supply chain operations preferred.
- Experience with SAP, Business Planning and Consolidation, and Microsoft Power BI preferred.
- Master of Business Administration, Certified Public Accountant, or Certified Management Accountant designation preferred.
We can treat these as Requirements (or Qualifications). The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose either Requirements or Qualifications. Since there are both required and preferred items, we could split: Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). But we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We have both required and preferred content. Could create two sections: Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Might be better to combine into one Requirements section covering both required and preferred. But we have headings list includes both Requirements and Qualifications; we can choose one. I'd combine into Requirements.
Now "Number of Days in Office: 3" is schedule info. So we need Schedule section with that content.
"Compensation Pay Range:$82,000-$120,000 The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees." That's Pay section.
Benefits: "Our Benefits We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role: Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursementWealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase planGrowth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursementBalance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities"
We need to format as list maybe. Could split into categories but we can just list bullet points.
Now "Our Company" etc is boilerplate? It's about company culture; maybe we could include as About the role? But we already have about the role. The "Our Company" paragraph is generic but could be considered about the company, not required. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The "Our Company" paragraph is not exactly boilerplate but could be considered company description; but we might keep it as part of About the role? However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Might be okay to include as part of About the role. But we already have about the role paragraph; we could append the company description to that same
. However the instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we should keep that company description. It's not boilerplate; it's about the company. Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section like "About the company". But headings list does not include About the company; only About the role. So we incorporate into About the role. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /. Use
for section headings. Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Thus structure:
About the role
Reporting to Supply Chain Finance Manager, you will perform advanced financial analysis supporting Grocery supply chain performance, including product costing, cost of goods sold variances, forecasting, and financial reporting. You will partner with Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance teams to provide insights and recommendations that support sound business decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and drive financial performance across the organization. At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®. Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.
But we need to ensure we didn't include EEO etc. The company paragraph includes "Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer..." which is EEO boilerplate; we should remove that. Also "Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request." That's also boilerplate. So we should cut those lines. So we keep up to "Foodies Welcome." before EEO line. The original text: "Our Company At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®. Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome. Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request." Thus we keep up to "Foodies Welcome." and discard the rest. Now Responsibilities section:Responsibilities
- Manage and deliver the financial forecast in collaboration with Supply Chain business partners, including Plant Finance, Enterprise Procurement Finance, Transportation and Warehousing Finance, and contract manufacturing partners.
- Coordinate accurate and timely variance-to-plan and variance-to-forecast reporting and communicate results to Operations and Supply Chain leadership.
- Lead month-end close and forecast processes, including monitoring progress, resolving issues, and ensuring deadlines are achieved.
- Translate manufacturing activity and costs into Brand profit and loss impacts and communicate results to Brand Finance and Brand Management teams.
- Ensure compliance with established financial control requirements.
- Provide variance analysis, recommendations, and strategies to improve financial performance.
- Partner with plant controllers and finance teams to analyze manufacturing costs, capital expenditures, and balance sheet performance.
- Support annual planning and forecasting activities.
- Implement and improve systems and processes that support forecasting, planning, and tracking manufacturing activity and costs.
- Train business partners on financial processes and procedures.
- Provide ad hoc financial and statistical analysis to Operations, Brand, and Finance teams.
- Lead the cost estimate process and collaborate with research, quality, innovation, manufacturing, and operations partners on new product and product renovation costing.
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Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related degree required.
- 5+ years of professional finance, accounting, or related business experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Strong analytical and financial modeling capabilities.
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, including leveraging analytics, benchmarking, and insights to develop meaningful strategies and solutions.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the capacity to work effectively across multiple levels of the organization.
- Experience supporting forecasting, financial planning, variance analysis, and reporting.
- Knowledge of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, and supply chain operations preferred.
- Experience with SAP, Business Planning and Consolidation, and Microsoft Power BI preferred.
- Master of Business Administration, Certified Public Accountant, or Certified Management Accountant designation preferred.
Schedule
Number of Days in Office: 3
Now Pay section:Pay
Compensation Pay Range: $82,000-$120,000. The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.
Now Benefits section: We need to format as list. The benefits text: "Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursementWealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase planGrowth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursementBalance: Paid-time off, parental
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and