Senior Financial Analyst

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Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey !

The Opportunity

The Senior Financial Analyst is a key business partner to the operations teams located at our manufacturing facilities in West Haven CT, Taylorville IL, SpringfieldMOand Carlsbad CA. This position supports the Director of Supply Chain Finance in the review and monitoring of all activities occurring at the manufacturing facilities involving or having a financial impact on the Company. Key areas of focus include cost of manufacturing, inventory, operations KPI’s and product costing.

What You’ll Do

• Prepare plant budgets and forecasts in relation to cost of manufacture, inventory and operations KPI’s. Coordinate with the operations team members to determine direct and indirect headcount requirements, overhead costs, and quality testing costs.
• Support the monthly financial operations close and reporting cycle.
• Report on monthly site operations KPI’s. Measure the performance against the targets and provide detailed commentary on the variances.
• Support product costing at the sites, including setting standard costs, review of actual cost against standard, as well as supporting costing for business quotes and RFP’s. Ensure that key stakeholders understand the drivers of costs.
• Support inventory management and control functions. Identify and resolve inventory-related issues by analyzing data, defining problems, and providing valid conclusions.
• Ability to plan, organize, and provide analysis in all phases of the accounting process to ensure the plants have the tools needed to operate in an efficient and profitable manner. Responsible for monitoring compliance for a range of procedures and internal controls relating to plant activity.
• Support cost savings initiatives for the sites.
• Responsible for capital expenditure project accounting including ROI analysis , project spend vs. plan, and initial fixed asset setup
• Develop and maintain a close working relationship with the production, quality, maintenance, supply chain and other support departments by providing analytical support and data in a timely manner. Participate in operational decision making.
• The candidate must have in-depth experience of working across these areas, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to lead and work effectively with internal departments.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of five years of related experience.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects simultaneously and delegate assignments to others.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Travel Requirements

Minimum overnight travel (up to 10%) by land and/or air.

Where And How You Will Work

The opportunity will be based onsiteat our West Haven, CT location.

What We Would Like to Offer You

• The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage,
• continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform,
• and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts,
• generous family leave policy,
• health & dental plan,
• competitive salary,
• 401K.

Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Connecticut. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. Annual salary for Connecticut-based employees for this role is $90,000 to $110,000.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company, delivering brands and ingredients that help people lead healthier, more active lives. Headquartered in Ireland and employing more than 5,800 people worldwide, Glanbia combines deep consumer insight with science-led innovation to serve growing health and wellness categories. Glanbia's businesses include Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition, and Dairy Nutrition.

Health & Nutrition is a global solutions partner, helping customers to create better nutrition products for healthier lives. Working side by side with our customers, we bring together consumer insight, scientific expertise, regulatory capabilities and high-quality precision nutrient solutions and flavor solutions to help create these products. Focused on growing categories including functional beverages, active lifestyle, and vitamins, minerals, and supplements, we make it easier for customers to bring better nutrition to market. We are the #2 supplier of custom nutrient premix globally. To deliver our portfolio, we have numerous manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada, Germany, and China, and international sales and innovation & collaboration centers around the world.