Job Details
Our family of brands include Bairds Malting, Barrett Burston Malting, Canada Malting Company, Country Malt Group, Cryer Malt and Great Western Malting. We produce approximately 1.25 million tons per annum of capacity across 12 processing plants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. We also operate an international distribution business, which provides a full service offering for craft brewers and distillers, including malt, hops, yeast, adjuncts and related products.
Our more than 900 employees are proud of the rich heritage of our family of brands and are committed to living our company values of safety, quality, integrity and passion. We celebrate the diversity of our people and together strive to create an environment where all employees are safe, welcomed and have a sense of belonging
Summary
- Create data-driven insight on strategic initiatives while understanding our fundamental business drivers
- Dashboard Reporting to improve data visibility
- Measurement of business performance and analysis on BU results
- Stay abreast of market and economic trends to build impact analysis and scenarios into financial forecasts to provide recommendations to business leaders
- Month end reporting preparation and analysis
- Lead weekly forecast calls
Duties/Responsibilites
- Develop and maintain reporting in Microsoft D365, Power BI, Workday Adaptive and Excel
- Formulate process to continuously review financial results and improve forward looking planning
- Analyze BU results vs Budget and Forecast
- Assist key decision makers with ad-hoc requests
- Extract data from different source systems, draw key insights, and produce clear and concise presentations of results.
- Build dynamic tools that empower the business to make key decisions
- Leverage internal operational and external consumption data to create analyses, reports and results-oriented feedback for key products and product categories
- Perform market-specific analysis to drive expansion and competitive advantage
- Conduct and maintain in-depth analysis and insights into key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities
- Develop operational reports to support measurement of key performance indicators
- Assist with ERP, technology, and governance project implementations
- Some travelling, evening, and weekend work as required to meet high priority business requests
Skills and Abilities
- Strategic and critical thinking: Applies objective, strategic, and critical thinking to shape and guide operational decisions.
- Ability to provide contextual recommendations based on analysis.
- Communication / Storytelling: Communication skills necessary to build an analytical message that fits the audience.
- Creative Thinking: Can create and propose alternative solutions and scenarios.
- Flexibility: Important to be able to adopt working schedule to business needs.
- Technical finance skills: Possesses an understanding of accounting, finance theory, data sources and definitions, modelling, creative problem solving, and the economics of the business.
- Tech savvy data analytics: Uses data, analysis, and facts to influence senior management on critical decisions.
- Industry knowledge: Experience and knowledge in similar industry (manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, food & beverage).
- Innovation: Always looking ahead to understand and lay out scenarios based on changes in the market or in company operations
- Leadership: Provides leadership by aligning people around most crucial goals. Helps set (and maintain) focus on most important priorities to improve rates of success
- Anticipating and serving evolving needs: Plans and advocates for effective management of company resources (e.g., people s time, cash, capital, equipment).
- Collaboration: Ability to work across functional areas to help create shared direction; largely related to company financial performance.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor of Arts or Science in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or Business-related field
- Outstanding Analytical Ability
- 2+ years of proven experience in a similar position or demonstrated fast-track experience
- Experience using Microsoft AX, Microsoft D365, Adaptive Workday, Power BI, Alteryx or similar software
Compensation
Salary $63,170.80 - $94,756.21 per year
Newly hired incumbents are placed on the salary scale based on their education, training/skill, and experience, as applicable.
Compensation and benefits package as follows.
Paid time off up to 23 days a year.
10 paid holidays
2 Medical plan options inclusive of RX coverage
Dental plan
Vision plan
Flex spending accounts (FSA)
Company paid basic life insurance.
Company paid STD & LTD
Voluntary Critical Illness, Accident and Life Insurance options
401(k) plan with employer match
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Fitness subsidy
Tuition reimbursement
Employee referral program
Product discounts through our CMG Division and from various external vendors