Financial Analyst

Position: Financial Analyst

Department: Finance

Reports To: VP Finance

Location: Irwindale, CA

**Salary**: 80-100K

**Groupe Bonduelle is a company that is making a positive impact**
Groupe Bonduelle is the world leader in ready-to-use plant-rich food. By joining our company you will have an opportunity to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission to inspire the transition toward a plant-rich diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health.

Groupe Bonduelle Fresh Americas is the U.S. business unit of France based Groupe Bonduelle (BON.PA). We are the first business unit of Groupe Bonduelle to become a Certified B Corporation. We operate four processing facilities throughout the U.S. and employ nearly 3,000 Associates who focus on producing and bringing to market fresh vegetable products, prepared salads and plant-based meal solutions.

Groupe Bonduelle is a 170 year old French family-owned company that has been at the forefront of plant rich food innovations since 1853. Our ready-to-use plant-rich food products are grown on 173,000 acres by our grower partners and marketed in nearly 100 countries. The company currently employees more than 12,000 Associates globally.

**Join us at Bonduelle Fresh Americas for an opportunity to advance your career in a culture that places people first. As a valued member of our company, you will have the opportunity to support our environmental and social initiatives to drive progress against our corporate social responsibility and B Corp certification ambitions.**

**At Bonduelle Fresh Americas, we make contributing to a better future through plant-based food our top priority.**

**Responsibilities**:
**Procurement**:

- Act as an independent, objective, fact-based business partner to Procurement and Warehouse teams
- Participate in weekly meetings with business partners on relevant upcoming collaborative work, deadlines, and updates.
- Track and review procurement initiatives to ensure the team is delivering the target savings. Review the financial validity of procurement savings initiatives.
- Assist the teams with key initiatives to drive positive contribution to the financial health of BFA by providing spend/volume or other related supplier/category analysis.
- Research anomaly spend, cost trends for driving suppliers to identify opportunities and risk.
- Perform mid-month review of PPV and work with accounting to understand postings and resolve discrepancies.
- Monitor Medius deviations to catch potential price and invoice anomalies.
- Review periods end close and deliver accurate, insightful and timely reporting and analysis of procurement performance and market evolution.
- Track and monitor inflationary movement, cost evolution, and ordering shifts correlated to PPV fluctuation.
- Support finance team with details on market pricing movement that can impact profitability.
- Evaluate obsolescence and overage of inventory, through ordering patterns.
- Collate month end close data into deck for ELT team monthly review.
- Quarterly financial forecast (LE aka Latest Estimate) Collaborative ~3 week process to update spend and quantity projections for remainder of the fiscal year.
- Cost Movement Evaluation & Catalog Upload Collaborate with business partners to log and identify impact of the cost evolution with our suppliers to the business. On and off during the month.
- Market Evolution (quarterly review) Spend reporting for a select group of customers, projecting spend, inflation and productivity details, risks, and opportunities.
- Transition reporting into BI system for ease of use and access to team.
- Maintain strong end to end internal controls of procure to pay process.
- Understand vendor and category scope and spend as well as market evolution production.

**Warehouse**:

- Participate in a weekly warehouse KPI review call.
- Ensure any $ KPI measures are anchored to the financial plan (be it Budget or LE).
- D&D analysis participates in weekly calls, drive action oriented follow up.
- Review period end close (general ledger), work with accounting to understand postings and resolve discrepancies.
- Analyses and commentary on freight PPV address root cause.
- Analyses and commentary on warehouse cost center (Act vs. Bud and vs. PY).
- Develop and keep updated Network-wide warehouse model.
- Pallet utilization by site, by type (refrig, ambient, frozen, etc.).
- Working with the Director of Warehousing, benchmark staffing levels across sites, and align on optimal staffing structure.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree.
- 3-6 Years of Experience

**Desired Qualifications**:

- Other skills, systems experience, competencies (results oriented ), computer abilities
- Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate up and down the organization
- A proven track record of results with a bias for action
- A passion for learning and a craving to work in a fun