Givaudan · 2 hours ago
Financial Analyst
Givaudan is a global leader in food innovations and fragrance solutions, seeking a Financial Analyst to enhance financial and operational performance at their site. The role involves conducting financial analysis, supporting management in strategic decision making, and providing detailed reports on financial trends and commitments.
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Responsibilities
Analyze financial and operational performance for assigned site
Conduct financial analysis to support management in the strategic decision making for the site
Review and analyze the site trends, costs, revenues, and financial commitments and identify variances versus budget
Analyze and evaluate monthly KPI’s and financial statements and provide management with detailed reports
Provide financial analysis and analytical support to Americas Region Operations head
Participate in forecasting and mid-to long term planning for the factory
Provide business support to the local operations Manager to ensure efficiency and compliance
Provide recommendations on inventory management
Contribute to annual and periodic requirements of costing activities and analysis of cost of goods (COGS)
Review COGS summary with management
Coordinate changes in master templates with local operations
Provide input into recipe templates from a costing perspective
Analyze and explain local product margins
Support site management with the development and analysis of business plans, budgets, forecasts, cost savings opportunities, etc
Respond to pricing and commercial controlling requests in a timely manner
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field, or the foreign degree equivalent, and 4 years of experience as a Financial Central Forecaster, Pricing Lead, or alternate acceptable occupation
International experience in the Food & Beverage manufacturing industry
Assigning costs to products for accurate and timely costing (wages, overheads, and freights)
Utilizing reporting tools, including SAP and JEDOX for software reporting operations expenditures, data extraction/consolidation, and financial analysis and budgeting activities
Implementing continuous improvement initiatives by evolving, streamlining, and automating processes, policies, and procedures in a manufacturing plant environment
Performing interpretive and predictive data analysis in the Food & Beverage international marketplace to identify key risks and opportunities for enhanced profitability
Collaborating with global accounts to build financial plans, including annual sales and operational expense budgets
Understanding the impact of changes in costs (raw materials, volume, efficiency/productivity and overhead initiatives) on the gross margin to support business decisions on pricing and sales
Performing financial consolidation to support management with commercial organization decision making
Operating in a matrixed environment aligning terminology and processes across sites, management levels and geographical areas of responsibility
Communicating with shop floor employees to address financial risks and opportunities
Company
Givaudan
Givaudan develops and manufactures products across fragrance & beauty and taste & wellbeing.
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$581.65M2025-09-02Post Ipo Debt· $581.65M
2003-03-14IPO
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