Senior Analyst – Commercial Finance
Employment Type : Full-Time
Overview:
Americold provides temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation to food producers, restaurants, schools, and retail outlets such as grocery stores. We're proud to provide an essential link in the food industry supply chain and to help put food on tables around the world.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates 180+ temperature-controlled warehouses in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Canada. We have nearly 13,000 associates and offer a wide variety of employment opportunities - from warehouse forklift operators and supervisors to accounting, customer support, engineering, transportation, and technology solutions positions.
Responsibilities:Primary Responsibility:
Overall accountability reviewing and delivering revenue analyses that measure and support the organization’s revenue management strategies. To use strong financial acumen and analytical skills to maximize revenue in finite capacity markets, to build business in unconstrained capacity markets, and to exhibit cross-functional leadership in working with business development, pricing, supply chain solutions, operations, and finance colleagues.
Essential Functions:
Customer Profitability and Yield Management
- Perform financial analysis to assess profitability of key customers
- Engage with IT and other departments to drive enhancements and data accuracy of the
profitability tool.
- Utilize internal tools and work with account owners and site management to review pricing
accuracy and identify customer profile changes and measure financial impact that will drive yield
opportunities.
- Utilize internal data sources and identify underperforming accounts driving yield initiatives.
- Support Pricing and SCS teams in executing new business solutions, renewals and contract
amendments by identifying underperforming accounts and suggesting resolution price points to
ensure margins are aligned with market objectives.
- Lead Post Investment Reviews in order to drive accountability for project returns across the organization and suggest continuous improvements.
Strategic Projects & Commercial Oversight
- Develop business cases using financial modeling techniques to support client proposals and
internal initiatives.
- Prepare C-Level presentations and present results to key stakeholders in order to support
informed business decisions by providing in-depth analysis and recommendations.
- Perform reporting and analysis of key performance metrics to achieve strategic objectives.
- Perform contract reviews to ensure compliance with commercial business rules.
- Work closely with cross functional teams including FP&A, Supply Chain Solutions, Operations
and IT in obtaining relevant information to support analysis and optimize revenue management
objectives
Ad Hoc Projects & Financial Analysis
- Work closely with cross functional teams including FP&A, SCS, Operations and IT in obtaining
relevant data supporting analysis and enhancing internal business intelligence tool.
- Continually implement improvements to revenue management tools and processes.
- Provide financial analysis, reporting, and decision making support for key business activities.
- Develop power point decks and reporting tools to present complex financial information to
senior management.
- Flexible and willing to assume other duties and ad hoc projects as needed supporting Commercial Finance, Business Development, as well as senior leadership teams.
- Provide training and guidance to analysts and interns.
Qualifications:Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting.
- 3-5 years’ experience in accounting, finance, sale reporting or performance reporting.
- Revenue management or pricing experience preferred.
- Proven success in creating and maintaining complex quantitative modeling financial tools.
- Experience in developing presentations for senior management.
- Advanced computer skills in Excel, Access, Word, Power Point, and Visio.
- SAP, BPC, and Salesforce knowledge a plus.
Knowledge & Employment Standards
- Exhibit a high degree of professionalism in the office.
- Must be a self-starter and work well independently with minimal supervision.
- Strong analytical problem solving skills and ability to think creatively and strategically.
- Must possess a proactive approach relying on experience and judgement to plan and
accomplish goals.
- Ability to communicate and present complex data in a persuasive and consultative manner: both
written and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain business relationships with senior management,
decision makers, and internal resources at all levels.
- Must be business savvy, and possess strong financial acumen.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to positively changing expectations and culture.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Must have team player approach demonstrating flexibility and commitment.
- Must demonstrated exceptional skills in Excel office (i.e. building complex financial models,
charting, conditional formatting, VBAs & Macros, etc.).
Physical Requirements & Abilities:
The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions.
- Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending.
- Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work.
- Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks.
- Required to visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing.
- Frequently carries loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
- Requires the use of various electronic tools.
- Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes.
- Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executives.
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.