Business Partnering Manager - Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis

Summary

A Business Partnering Manager for Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis (EFP&A) will provide financial guidance, expertise, and recommendations to leaders and to the business for operational decisions. The role will be responsible for preparing financial reporting and executive level content. The role will also focus on aggregating financial information from J.R. Simplot’s diverse businesses into a single total company point of view. This is a critical role in successfully achieving the team goal of preserving the J.R. Simplot legacy by providing a business integrated view of the future to enable actionable decision making. As a result, this will be a high-visibility role. A successful candidate will have experience with preparing and presenting financial statements, including employing best practices to visualize and simplify complex data to provide meaningful insights. Beyond a proven background with financial consolidation and preparing executive level presentations, a successful candidate must be a strong communicator, analytical, detail-oriented, process-focused, motivated, and a quick learner. EFP&A works with a diverse set of groups in the company: treasury, controllership, business group finance, engineers, and operations to name a few. As such, one must have experience in a dynamic and diversified corporate environment, and with maintaining productive partnerships to excel in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead preparation of a full suite of financial statements, reports, and presentations timing with forecast updates and quarterly deliverables

• Build and maintain scalable and automated financial reporting connected to our system of record, SAP Analytics Cloud

• Provide support for loading, validating, and analyzing actual and forecasted financial data including a large portfolio of capital investments, and Simplot’s consolidated income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement

• Prepare financial and business-related analysis and research

• Interact as a liaison between business and finance departments to provide an understanding of business problems and solutions

• Distil drivers of trends in actuals or changes to forecast and effectively communicate them to leadership to help drive decisions

• Simplify complex financial information to ensure it is easily digestible for diverse audiences

• Continually seek and implement process and system improvements

Typical Education

Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4-year college or university

Relevant Experience

• 8+ years related experience and/or training

• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint

• Knowledgeable in three statement financial modeling

• Experience with using and building reports in SAC, Power BI, Tableau, or other similar systems

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