Financial Analyst (Financial Business Partner)

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE ROLE 

The role is responsible for driving and managing activities related to a variety of areas, including serving as a key business partner to Regional or Functional Business Functions with respect to the financial management of SG&A, including cost center budgets/forecasts, month end processes, variance analysis, and supporting SOX controls. This role will also assist with broader SG&A analysis, reporting and ad hoc projects.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

1    Financial Liaison among Regions and Functions
    Act as financial liaison to Regional or Functional Business Partners, providing support for annual budgets, long-term planning, quarterly forecasts, month-end close processes. 
    Schedule and lead meetings with respective business partners to advance budget development, forecast updates, and month end reviews
    Prepare meeting specific reporting (including report building, data analyzing, development of explanations and/or questions for alignment with partners.
    Provide ad hoc analytics to business partners to enhance forecasting accuracy and spend efficiency.     

2    Financial Performance Review & Analysis
    Run Finance Reviews with Business and deliver regular updates on financial performance to Management team.
    Drive earning model and enhancement for supervised business
    Support other Finance partners in the overall analysis of SG&A impact to P&L.
    Support broader team in projects to drive enhanced visibility and insights to total Company SG&A.    

3    Cost Center Management and Stakeholder Review
    Drive cost center activity and lead quarterly reviews with Business Partners and Leadership.
    Consolidate insights from business partners. Develop and present deck for Functional leadership review along with supporting reporting and respective insights.
    Manage and execute activities related to maintaining cost center information, including PO approvals, CAAP review/development, etc.    

4    Process and Reporting Improvement
    Identify and implement process and reporting improvements including enhancements to various processes such as month end, forecast and other processes (e.g.  automating data extraction, identifying better data source, optimizing excel models, etc.
    Partner with cross functional finance partners to implement SG&A process improvement and automated reporting.    

5    Monthly Financial Accounting and Reporting
    Complete monthly reporting and analysis on cost center spend 
    Complete required month end reporting deliverables.
    Prepare explanations and review results with leadership.
    Identify and prepare month end journal entries.
    Review and evaluate month end results to confirm completeness.
    Provide support and explanations for SOX controls.
    Complete required SOX controls accurately and by respective deadline.    10

6    Ad Hoc Analysis and Project Support 
    Complete ad hoc analysis based on own identification of issues or requests from business partners- evaluation of headcount options, evaluate different cost savings opportunities, etc    10

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education and Discipline    

• Professional Degree - BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, or Economics
• Minimum Experience Required -  5+ years of financial analysis or planning experience.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel and basic proficiency in PowerPoint & Word required. 
• Strong analytical, communication, and organization skills required.
• Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of different financial and analytical techniques and the capability to plan own work and respect deadlines.
• 100% Bilingual in English required
  
  

OTHER SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Innovative - Develops new solutions to solve business problems and obstacles.
• Proposes and implements improvements to systems, methods of work, and analysis methods, and contributes to ensuring that they are continuously adapted to the business requirements.
• Handling Complexity - Analyze/solve business problems with incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Teamwork – effectively works across the finance team and business function.
• SAP/BW/TM1 experience is desirable