About Us
As a leader within the food service sector, we specialize in overseeing the distribution and sale of a diverse range of culinary offerings. With distribution centers spanning the US, over 2 million square feet of warehousing space, and a fleet of more than 1,000 trucks, we're the go-to when it comes to reliable delivery services.
We believe that teamwork and collaboration are the keys to success. We pride ourselves on maintaining the highest standards of integrity and honesty in everything we do and building strong relationships with our clients. We're looking for individuals who share our values and are committed to excellence. Join our team and contribute to our culture of collaboration and integrity while growing your own skills and expertise. Together, we'll deliver high-quality products and exceptional service to our clients and achieve great things.
What You’ll Do
As the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager, you will be responsible for delivering consolidated management reporting, financial analysis, and business insights to the leadership team. You will facilitate the end-to-end business and financial planning process and be responsible for driving deeper insights and support into financial, operational, and workforce related performance and decisions. You will be responsible for implementing and driving the core financial processes for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identifying and quantifying financial/operational risks and opportunities to the business, and driving ad-hoc business projects. To be successful in this role you will be a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in people management and thought leadership.
- Lead consolidated management reporting and analysis activities, including preparing, analyzing, interpreting data and trends.
- Manage planning process and build financial models and analytical toolsets for budgeting, forecasting, and driving performance.
- Develop and monitor key business performance metrics across the consolidated and individual business lines or entities.
- Provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management based on analysis for purposes of scenario analysis, business case analysis, return on investment, and regulatory/audit engagements.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes, strengthen internal controls and optimize data management.
- Coach operational leaders on systems and tools to develop a data driven decision making methodology.
- Along with Controllership and IT Applications, assist in optimizing cost centers, GL accounts, and channel hierarchies to best facilitate analysis and reporting.
- Coordinate internal audit across all operating companies with accounting and operations.
- Maintain BI data analytics to support pricing strategy, demand planning and forecasting.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or related data analytics field.
- 5+ years of financial planning and business analysis experience required.
- Experience leading budgets and forecasted financial performance.
- Strong knowledge of planning and performance processes, including annual budget, monthly forecast, and periodic business reviews.
- Cost accounting background is highly preferred.
- Data modeling and analytical skills including utilization of BI tools for dashboard creation.
- Ability to follow through on issues, make informed decisions that comply with policies and procedures, complete tasks and problem-solve.
- Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels within the organization.
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, confidentiality.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Application Question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the United States?
- Are you fluent in Chinese/ Mandarin?
- How many years of experience do you have analyzing data and developing strategies based on findings?
- What is your salary expectation range? (Required for Consideration)
- How many years of people management experience do you have?
- What your experience with leading budgets and forecasted financial performance?
Ability to Commute:
- Chicago, IL 60638 (Required)
Work Location: In person