Business Partnering Specialist, Finance

Summary

A Business Partnering Specialist for Enterprise Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) will be responsible for aggregating a large portfolio of capital investments and supporting financial consolidation 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 be curious, a quick learner, motivated, analytical, process-oriented, have business acumen, and be a strong communicator. The ability to analyze financial and operational information to make process improvement recommendations will be a critical component of this role. Enterprise FP&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 diversified environment and with maintaining productive partnerships to excel in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Capital Investments

  • Load, validate, and analyzing actual project level expenditure 

  • Partner with businesses to update capital forecasts and hold reviews to consistently communicate changes up through management 

  • Conduct variance analysis on actual vs forecasted capital spending 

  • Run depreciation forecast process: calculation, validation, and communication 

  • Promote consistent practices with and adoption of the capital system of record SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), including trainings and direct user support 

  • Build and maintain capital and depreciation reporting within SAC 

  • Continually seek and implement process and system improvements  
     

• Financial Consolidation 

  • Support Enterprise FP&A colleagues with aggregating the businesses income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows into a single consolidated outlook 

  • Analyze trends, variances, and KPIs driving performance 

  • Assist with preparing reports for management reviews 

Typical Education

Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4-year college or university (Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Mathematics or equivalent preferred) 

Relevant Experience

• 2+ years related experience and/or training

• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint 

• Knowledgeable in three statement financial modeling 

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