Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life's essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our specialized portfolio enterprise where we serve diverse businesses who support unique customers or markets, including animal nutrition and health, bioindustrial, road safety salt and Cargill joint ventures.
Job Purpose and Impact
- The Senior Professional, Commercial Finance job performs complex financial planning, analysis and forecasting to enable the development of business strategy, setting clear, financially focused targets for the organization and ensuring effective deployment of capital. With minimal supervision, this job acts as a critical business partner and performs necessary financial rigor and complex analysis to monitor the progress and achievement of financial results to ensure value creation for the organization. This job also leads implementing the capital investment portfolio across the assigned business to align program outcomes, objectives and technical goals with the corporate, group and functional strategy to deliver business outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- BUSINESS/FUNCTION FINANCIAL PLANNING: Coordinates and links complex financial planning, analysis and forecasting processes, including customer profitability analysis and enterprise service demand drivers, for a regional or multiple country business or function, by applying an understanding of key drivers of results and related sensitivities.
- DRIVES BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: Analyzes performance metrics and business model drivers to drive strategy execution and value creation, applying technology to implement the aligned end to end performance management of the business.
- MODELING & ANALYTICS: Develops and delivers complex modeling and benchmarking to bring insights to the business, and develops and delivers presentations to communicate insights, including defending positions on controversial topics, and adapting style to continuously seek mutually beneficial solutions.
- FORECASTING: Develops necessary financial projections and proposes financial forecast and model for the business to support new product development projects.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with finance, business and functional team members to help influence others and improve connectivity and effective communication.
- CAPITAL PROJECT INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: Leads implementing capital investment portfolios across the assigned business to achieve strategic goals of the business and broad organizational goals, maintaining governance of portfolio and program practices.
- CAPITAL PROJECT INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Monitors and reports on the status of the portfolio performance metrics and goals, overall business impact of projects within the portfolio and programs, identifies variances from plans, and implements the approved corrective actions.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Conducts and interprets research to identify key issues and suggest continuous improvement, influencing optimization activities and recommending process changes.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
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