Job Details

Support strategies to help drive greater insights into sales and gross profit improvements, identifying opportunities to help drive growth. Leverage system and business knowledge especially across various systems to help streamline financial insights. Support corporate FP&A processes, initiatives and reporting within the greater Commercial function.

Summary of Job Purpose:

Support strategies to help drive greater insights into sales and gross profit improvements, identifying opportunities to help drive growth. Leverage system and business knowledge especially across various systems to help streamline financial insights. Support corporate FP&A processes, initiatives and reporting within the greater Commercial function.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Merchandising leaders and provide financial insights across various product categories
• Create reporting analytics, metric development and communicate insights to Merchandising leadership team
• Manage Merchandising AOP and budgeting process, and monthly/quarterly business review process
• Identify growth, margin and efficiency opportunities
• Perform Ad-hoc analytics and financial decision support
• Determine the key drivers of variances versus plan and last year's results.
• Identify opportunities and the key drivers of profitability.
• Make recommendations to management to improve profitability.
• Provide specific analysis as as needed
• Identify opportunities to improve margin
• Quantify the financial impact of key initiatives.
• Ensure overall trends and the impacts of key initiatives are reflected accurately in the forecast.
• Work with each department to ensure they understand the overall forecast and how the impact of the key initiatives they are responsible for is reflected in the forecast.
• Play a key role in the preparation of the annual profit plan (AOP)
• Assure overall trends and the impacts of key initiatives are reflected accurately in the annual profit plan.
• Participate in the recruiting and training of the finance analyst.
• Responsible for performance management and development of finance analyst
• Individual must champion and be the local expert in Sysco's analytical toolbox.
• Monitor and recommend on methods to measure profitability

Required Minimum Education/Experience:

• MBA or, an equivalent combination of education and experience (5+ years) sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job
• Minimum at least 5 years of work experience in a corporate setting, with emphasis on areas such as financial planning and analysis, corporate accounting, business analytics, and financial modeling
• Strong Commercial focus, with exposure to multiple business/functions and excellent business partnering skills

Certifications and/or Technical Requirements:

Abilities and Skills:

• High business acumen with strong finance background
• Advance Excel skills with strong focus on financial modeling
• Thought Leader, ability to think “Outside the Box”
• Strategic minded with strong influential skills
• Self-starter with ability to drive agenda on their own
• Able to assist Business Leaders in developing Strategy and Tactics to drive performance
• Strong presentation skills with ability to build Senior Leadership Decks
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to create alignment across multiple businesses to drive synergistic savings
• Strong track record of accounting and analytical skillset
• Works productively across the enterprise and partners with others to achieve shared goals
• Communicates clearly and concisely; verbal and written
• Speaks and acts with complete honesty and trustworthiness
• Able to deploy Finance best practices across the organization

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment:

• This position can be performed from the Corporate facility.
• Must be able to do limited travel to Sysco facilities or operating companies.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

NOTICE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the environment and level of work being performed by this job. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only tasks to be performed by the employee in this job. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other job related duties requested by his or her supervisor.

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.