Finance Analyst

Meaningful Work From Day One

The Finance Analyst role will provide support and analytical insight, and will partner with Finance Managers to analyze business performance. As a critical finance business partner, the Finance Analyst will execute against organization-wide analytical priorities, promote a culture of analytics, and support our commercial management processes and systems. This person will report to a USA&C Finance Manager.

What You Can Expect

• Collaborate across functions (finance, sales, marketing & operations) to align analytical efforts against business priorities.
• Perform analysis to formulate insights that drive action. Areas of analysis will be broad based and will include financial, distribution, velocity, consumer, customer, etc.
• With the manager’s oversight, conduct descriptive and predictive analysis both independently and collaboratively.
• Perform post-promotional analysis to evaluate program/spend effectiveness, ROI and deal level lift analysis.
• Ad hoc requests related to market/cluster, e.g. channel, distribution and account analytics, supporting the forecasting process and inputs for business reviews.
• Actively participate in rolling forecast and budget planning, with a focus on pricing.

Pricing & Margin Analysis

• Assist in all processes related to pricing and discounting, including validation of discounting, maintaining/updating price structures, resolving pricing errors, scan/coupon tracking, and invoice processing.
• Support the annual pricing guidance process, including seeking to understand the overall pricing environment/trends, leveraging insights to identify opportunities, and quantifying implemented pricing actions throughout the year.
• Partner with the National Account Managers (“NAM’s) to provide market pricing in advance of NAM’s customer meetings.

Supporting Commercial Management Processes & Systems

• Assist in the resource allocation process to ensure resources are efficiently allocated across the team.
• Ad hoc reporting and presentations support (MBR/QBR, New Item Presentations, etc.).
• Partner with FP&A to process monthly, quarterly and year-end financial close related requirements (come-in, journal entries, accrual backup, prepaids, etc.).
• Provide pricing to help complete the New Item Setup process.
• Provide supplemental MRM support beyond the Region SMS scope.
• Reconcile distributor investment funds and support sales manager oversight process
• Support Finance Manager in daily Finance department activities

What You Bring to the Table

• Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering (preferable).
• Experience: Bachelor’s Degree with at least 2 years of business experience or equivalent experience.
• Language: Fluency in English.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, creativity, passion for problem-solving, and strong diagnostic skills in order to connect the dots and provide a thorough business analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, relationship building, and influencing skills with the ability to collaborate with partners across a broad organization (Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance).
• Experience with utilizing various software/data sources for analysis (e.g. Microsoft Office, Google Applications, Tableau, SAP, etc.).
• Demonstrated professional maturity, business acumen, sound business judgment, and ability to provide advice to management based on objective and impartial analysis.
• A proactive self-starter.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team while putting the success of the group ahead of personal ambitions.
• Personal honesty and integrity: the ability to effectively handle confidential information.

What Makes You Unique

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, or mathematics.
• Commercial finance and pricing experience.
• Beverage alcohol or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry experience.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come.

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