Senior Financial Analyst, NOAM FP&A

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Job Description

As a Senior Financial Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and insightfulness of financial performance for Givaudan's North America Taste and Wellbeing region. Working closely with business leadership, you will oversee closing activities, manage reporting and deliver performance analysis that guide strategic decisions. This is a high-visibility role that requires both technical knowledge and strong cross-functional collaboration. If this sounds interesting to you, go ahead and apply - we'd love to get to know you better.

Salary Range based on experience $80,000 - $110,000

Core Responsibilities

Month-End Closing and Reporting

• Support month end process including journal entries and reclassifications, data validation and accuracy that supports regional financial reporting
• Own consolidated financial reporting including customer, segment, and business unit performance drivers, and product and margin analysis

Performance Management

• Consolidate monthly and quarterly results analysis into clear, actionable summaries for senior leadership review, and support monthly and quarterly business reviews with senior management team.
• Own financial regional forecasting model, process and consolidation of key assumptions including risk and opportunities. Coordinate with North America regional leadership and global FP&A to meet deliverables.
• Coordinate with department heads to understand cost drivers and ensure accurate forecast with focus on headcount and T&E spending.

• Provide backup support for weekly operational forecasting activities, ensuring accuracy, continuity, and updates in the absence of the primary owner.

Budgeting

• Co-lead the annual budgeting process, including bottom-up departmental budgets.

• Coordinate and validate data integrity between cost center reports, consolidation models, and corporate templates.
• Support variance analyses and manage communication of budget deliverables.

Process Optimization and Ad Hoc Support

• Drive continuous improvements in reporting and SAP data processes, ensure adherence to Givaudan's internal controls and reporting standards, including backup support for validation and maintenance of customer, segment and business unit master data
• Assist in R&D expense reviews and revenue recognition validations according to defined internal controls guidelines
• Provide backup support for managing the regional finance email inbox, ensuring timely responses and effective communication during absences or peak workload periods.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• At least 3 years of FP&A or corporate finance, ideally within a multinational environment with understanding of P&L management, revenue recognition, and budgeting.
• Technical expertise in SAP and BI tools with strong Microsoft Excel skillset. Experience building financial driver-based P&L model .
• A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills, attention to detail, organizational skills, analytical capability, and ability to meet deadlines.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision and a high matching 401k plan.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

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