Sr Analyst, Commercial Finance

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY:

Commercial Finance Sr. Analyst, responsible for delivering financial and strategic support to Sysco’s corporate Merchandising organization.  The individual must possess strong organizational and analytical skills and be able to manage shifting priorities in an ambiguous setting. Role will include financial reporting and measurement, analysis of key metrics and their impacts on the P&L, including margin, cost, price, expense, revenue, and rates of return. Analysis of external economic conditions and their impact on business operations such as inflation, interest rates, exchange rates.  This position sits within Corporate Finance reporting to the Senior Manager of Commercial Finance.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and manage relationships with business partners within the merchandising organization and across multiple business functions. 
• Leverage analytical data, economic and industry information to forecast and plan for inflation as it pertains to various products and commodities.
• Gain a deep understanding of product verticals at Sysco and develop subject matter expertise relevant to areas of responsibility.
• Play a pivotal role in the processes of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis in collaboration with team members and merchandising leadership.
• Collaborate across functions to improve processes and current methodologies.

REQUIRED MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related quantitative field.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in a corporate setting, with emphasis on areas such as forecasting, financial planning and analysis, business analytics, and financial modeling.
• Demonstrated excellent business partnership skills with senior level leaders.

ABILITIES AND SKILLS:

• High business acumen with strong finance background.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including experience presenting to leaders.
• Ability to analyze information, apply critical thought processes and draw conclusions in ambiguous scenarios.
• Ability to develop work plans and support cross functional teams to achieve a common goal.
• Experience in identifying, understanding, and leveraging 3rd party data sets to drive business insights.
• Self-starter that is detail oriented and highly motivated.
• Experience with Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivots etc.), PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.
• Tableau or SQL experience is a plus.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment:

• This position can be performed from the corporate facility.  
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

NOTICE:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the environment and level of work being performed by this job.  This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only tasks to be performed by the employee in this job. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other job related duties requested by his or her supervisor.