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Financial Analyst, Pricing & Procurement

It’s an exciting time to join Flagstone Foods as we are on a mission to become the finest private label snacking company in the world. We are locating our new corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota and looking to hire bright, talented, collaborative people to support an exciting, entrepreneurial and rapidly growing firm.
 
Company Overview:
Flagstone Foods is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of private label healthy snacks in North America, holding the leading market position in the nut, trail mix and dried fruit categories. The company’s over 800 associates are located in plants in Robersonville, North Carolina, El Paso, Texas, and Dothan, Alabama. These facilities source, process, package and distribute nuts, trail mixes and other wholesome snacks to premier retail customers across the country.
 
Background:  
We are fortunate to have Atlas Holdings as our new owners as of August 2019, reestablishing Flagstone Foods as a standalone business. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut and founded in 2002, Atlas and its affiliates own and operate 20 platform companies which employ more than 18,000 associates at more than 150 facilities worldwide. Atlas has a long and distinguished record of strengthening and growing companies, investing both the human and financial capital needed to create long-term, sustainable value. 

Position Summary:
  • Partners with Sales and Marketing teams to develop pricing recommendations and manage customer profitability.
  • Responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and providing analytics and fact-based recommendations to support Company objectives.
  • Develops a develop a deep understanding of manufacturing cost structure.
  • Develops effective pricing strategies to optimize profitability.
  • Job Responsibilities: Actively guides pricing and bid scenarios.
  • Provides recommendations for new and existing products and customers by analyzing all input cost variables and ensuring pricing integrity to achieve margin goals.
  • Assists in managing and analyzing the effectiveness of trade programs for customers to ensure financial objectives.
  • Assists in developing, updating, and analyzing reports to provide trends and insights into performance of key metrics to understand customer profitability and business segmentation.
  • Assists in activities to support customer action items for improved profitability, including coordination with the Bid Tracker and financial planning and forecasting with the Sales team.
  • Collaborates with the Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain teams to develop, summarize, and report annual strategic objectives and the related financial impacts.
  • Continually tracks performance against strategic objectives and assists in developing alternate solutions to achieve financial objectives.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional team to develop, analyze, and summarize monthly comparisons to financial forecasts.
  • Leads research and documentation of variances to benchmarks by collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Demand Planning, Plant Controllers, and the Supply Chain team.
  • Collaborates with the FP&A team to identify opportunities to enhance, streamline, and more effectively analyze and report on metrics and trends to meet and improve overall performance.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related area or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum 3+ years of experience as a financial analyst.
  • High level of proficiency with Excel.
  • Strong knowledge of Finance.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills.
  • Ability to build strong relationships.
  • Previous financial experience in CPG / Manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Previous experience with SAP, BI is preferred.