Senior Financial Analyst

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.

Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for supporting agriculture retailers' operations leaders through commercial FP&A activity. This position will play a pivotal role finance through expanding FP&A related capabilities in the Ag Retail business. These responsibilities could include, but are not limited to, supporting retail operations, sales, trading, planning, and functional managers through budgeting, forecasting, acquisition integration, financial analysis & general business, and decision support. The position will also work closely with Ag Finance and Corporate Finance FP&A team members supporting budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and other responsibilities.

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Responsibilities

Partner with and Support Commercial Leaders

• Support leaders with newly integrated systems and tools. Including SAP and other legacy ERP systems.
• Analyze volumes and margins quantitatively and qualitatively. Provide insights and recommendations to commercial leaders based on findings.
• Analyze sales general and administrative expenses against budgets and forecasts.
• Compare direct plant and SG&A expenses with comparisons to budget within product lines.
• Analyze efficiency of assets and make recommendations for improvements.
• Support commercial leaders by providing reporting to be shared with local producer boards.

Provide Financial Analysis & Decision Support

• Execute complex financial analysis to identify trends and recommend solutions to improve margins and/or reduce risk.
• Analyze financial data, market trends, and industry benchmarks to gather findings and insights that can be leveraged to improve the BU decision making capabilities; prepare appropriate communications to leaders.
• Understand complex business models to ensure accurate onboarding and integration of acquisitions into our legacy systems and reporting tools.
• Enable decision making via the delivery of high impact financial analyses.
• Lead ad-hoc projects without significant guidance from leadership.

Strengthen Financial Forecasting & Analytical Capabilities

• Partner with the business unit and finance team to enhance financial forecasting capabilities and increase forecast accuracy.
• Partner with finance FP&A team to develop financial dashboards, models and reports for commercial leadership and divisional leaders.
• Assist with process improvement projects that focus on budgeting, acquisitions and integrations, and long-range planning.

Minimum Qualifications (required)

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Business, Business Administration, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in Finance, Accounting, and/or Financial Planning and Analysis

Additional Qualifications

• Ability to solve complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
• In depth understanding of budgeting, long-range planning and forecasting processes as well as various financial statements (Balance Sheet, P&L, Statement of Cash Flow).
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to teach and mentor others and thrive in a team environment.
• Possess a continuous improvement mindset with the desire to lead change initiatives.

Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.

CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care savings accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.

CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.