Job description

Christensen Farms is one of the largest, family-owned pork producers in the United States, marketing approximately 3 million hogs per year. Headquartered in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, the company operates throughout the Midwest with facilities in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and South Dakota. Christensen Farms owns four feed mills, manages 145,000 sows on 44 farms, and oversees more than 350 nurseries and grow-finish sites. The company employees nearly 1,000 people and maintains 1,500 contract partnerships.
The company is vertically integrated with a strong presence across the pork value chain - from farm to fork. Christensen Farms is the largest shareholder of Triumph Foods LLC, a producer-owned primary pork processing plant in St. Joseph, Missouri. In turn, Triumph Food members own 50 percent of Daily's Premium Meats, a specialty pork processor bacon and other premium pork products. Triumph Foods also holds a 50 percent partnership in Seaboard Triumph Foods, LLC of Sioux City, Iowa, a primary pork processing plant.
Position Overview and Responsibilities:
The Financial Analyst position is a critical member of the finance organization. This position plays a key role in working with business leaders across specific departments, namely Procurement, Feed Mill Operations, Production and Finance/Accounting. A successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to identify and pursue business improvement initiatives and cost capture opportunities, analyze business performance and future opportunities, and collaboratively assess and recommend strategic and daily business decisions across the organization in areas such as expense and process management.
A successful candidate will demonstrate sounds analytical skills, the ability to decipher large data sets and translate into key messages and actionable outcomes, be highly inquisitive and creative, and most importantly, engage with business leaders through a solid understanding of the business coupled with a significant level of interaction to drive results.
Majors Areas of Accountability:

• Responsible for extracting and analyzing data and trends from internal and external sources to support reporting, ad-hoc analysis, special projects, and decision-making for the various departments and/or divisions.
• Develops and prepares financial reporting analysis including cost analysis, trending analysis, variance analysis, and identification of cost reduction and/or revenue enhancement opportunities for departments and/or
• Cross functionally collaborates with business leaders to create, improve and/or maintain key performance indicators and reporting that drives spend optimization and overall organizational effectiveness.
• Conducts ad hoc analysis to support business leaders and special projects to explain key business drivers and influence optimal business decisions.
• Consults proactively with business leaders to ensure information, analysis and reporting needs are met.
• Assist in cost management and financial performance evaluations of departments and/or divisions.
• Collaborates with accounting and business leaders to assist in preparation of annual budgets.
• Creates and maintains detailed financial models, including long and short-range forecast models and finance models to support special projects and decision support.
• Prepares cost/benefit analysis on proposed projects and investments.
• Other duties as assigned.

Attributes of a Successful Candidate:
STRONG ANALYTICAL SKILLS

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Ability to identify the significant factors of an issue
• Employ creativity in identifying causes, implications, and remedies
• Demonstrate a balance between theoretical and practical solutions
• Detail-oriented and ensures a high level of data accuracy and reliability

INTUITIVE SKILLS

• Ability to work independently
• Effectively follow through on assignments with successful outcomes
• Timely follow-up; meet deadlines; demonstrate a sense of urgency; effectively prioritize multiple projects while setting clear expectations with business partners
• Strong organizational skills
• Aptitude and desire to learn other areas of the business for a well-rounded perspective.

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Efficient and effective oral and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills - confidently present a concise and intuitive build-up of information to 'tell the story' to senior management
• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with peers

OTHER

• Highly intelligent with excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to produce results in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to adapt to change of responsibilities and additional duties demanded by the business.
• Approaches complex problems and analyses with an open, collaborative mindset
• Eager and willing to contribute to the success of the finance team through close collaboration and team building
• Seeks additional training and knowledge to build expertise and proactively shares know-how for betterment of team members and processes
• Supports and leads areas of assigned responsibility through effective and frequent collaboration and business partnering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics or other equivalent
• 1-2 years of related experience
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel

Job Type: Full-time

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