Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UNFI is North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering a wide variety of products to community grocers and retail chains. The Finance Operational Analyst Senior is responsible for providing financial support for critical areas such as budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, ensuring effective communication and insights into the company's financial health.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and reviews accurate and timely financial and business-related analyses, research, and forecasts
- Performs advanced trend and variance analyses - incorporates data from different areas and synthesizes. Findings incorporate cross functional impacts, trends, and industry news. Translates findings into process improvements
- Responsible for weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting and updates to management team. Maintenance of KPIs for assigned area
- Provides insights into the performance of the business and translates findings into potential action plans for area supported
- Completes a variety of financial evaluation research and analysis activities requiring the compilation of data and information from a variety of sources both internally and externally
- Presents results of research and analysis to management
- Provides key support to the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting of the assigned business area including variance analysis and sensitivity testing
- Plays leadership role in critical planning and analysis processes
- Develops and provides ownership of complex short term (1 year) and provides support for long term (3 – 5 year) forecasting models. Predominantly driver based on multi-function business activity inputs
- Leads process improvements and strategic initiatives within functional areas under the direction of their supervisor
- Proven ability to analyze business processes and provide suggestions for improvement
- Able to articulate the impact of analysis, modeling, business decision support on key financial measures (i.e. Gross Profit, Operating Margin, DOH, DSO, etc.)
- Conceptualizes, develops and presents business cases to financial and business leadership
- Acts as an internal consultant and interacts with management at all levels
- Performs other relevant job duties as required
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting or related field
- 5+ years of FP&A experience required
- Strong Strategic Planning, Financial and Operations / Business Background. Not purely financial background required
- Financial modeling experience
- Thorough knowledge of and experience in providing economic, market, consumer and business research and analysis for wholesale industries
- Demonstrated success in multiple, difficult and complex financial analysis
- Cleary articulate and present ideas in a clear concise manner. Able to listen closely to identify important facts, assumptions and relevant information. Interpret meaning
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access and related software applications
- Ability to be a team member and demonstrate skills to contribute to team dynamics
- Capability to work independently when needed
- Outstanding analytical skills (numerical, verbal)
- Strong business acumen
- Must be self-driven and very motivated
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others within a complex, fast paced organization required
- Leads and directs the work of others across the company, without direct organizational line of authority
- Strong administrative, organizational and relationship skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
- Position also requires strong interpersonal skills, discretion, diplomacy, and judgment
- Strong teamwork ethic, positive proactive flexible attitude ability to take complete ownership of responsibilities
- Ability to work under pressure and time constraints as well as handling several tasks simultaneously required
- Ability to manage confidential information
- Possess excellent research and analysis skills
- Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available
- MBA or CPA preferred
- Experience with data visualization tools i.e. Tableau, Power BI is a plus
- Experience with Oracle and UFIN Financial Reporting & Planning tools is a plus
- Budgeting and forecasting experience a plus
- Statistical modeling skills a plus
Benefits
- Competitive 401k
- Flexible PTO plan
- Remote
- Health benefits – first of the month following 30 days of employment
- Mentorship program/developmental opportunities
- Paid Time Off
- Sick Time
- Paid holidays and parental leave
- 401K Program
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and accidental death/dismemberment insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance program
- Flexible Spending Account and/or Health Savings Account, subject to meeting the eligibility requirements and the terms and conditions of these programs
- For Washington positions (or positions that may be performed remotely from Washington), https://www.unfi.com/jobs-more-info-wa.html for Washington-specific paid time off details
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