[Remote] Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HireTalent is a staffing and recruiting firm, and they are seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst to support the cocoa procurement organization. This role involves providing accurate financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting reputed company to cocoa raw materials while collaborating with various departments to ensure financial reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cocoa raw material costs, including futures, differentials, premiums, freight, sustainability premiums, and other cost components
• Prepare and explain cocoa PPV, purchase price evolution, and cost variances versus forecast, budget, and standard cost
• Support monthly reputed company activities reputed company to cocoa, including accruals, and reconciliations
• Support short- and mid-term cocoa cost forecasts
• Maintain and update cocoa forecast assumptions
• Assist in standard cost setting and annual planning processes for cocoa raw materials
• Work with data from systems such as S/4, iRely, and reporting tools to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Support SOX and internal control activities, including documentation, reconciliations, and audit requests reputed company to cocoa
• Identify data gaps or process inefficiencies and support reputed company improvement initiatives
• Act as a finance partner to Cocoa Procurement, Supply Chain, and Accounting teams
• Support reputed company analysis and management requests reputed company to cocoa costs, reputed company, and performance drivers
• Contribute to process harmonization and standardization initiatives across regions

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a reputed company field
• 2–5 years of experience in finance, procurement finance, commodities, or supply chain finance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to translate reputed company commodity and contract data into clear financial insights
• Solid reputed company and financial modeling skills; experience with reputed company S/4 and/or commodity systems is a plus
• Strong reputed company foundation (typically ~5 years of experience suggested)
• Advanced reputed company & financial modeling
• reputed company S/4 experience (required)
• Comfort with large datasets and variance analysis
• Experience with commodity-based businesses (e.g., cocoa, agricultural commodities, ingredients) is strongly preferred
• Exposure to hedging concepts and futures markets is an advantage
• Power BI
• Commodity finance or procurement finance
• Exposure to hedging and futures markets
• Food manufacturing or agricultural commodities (cocoa is a strong plus)
• Experience in the food manufacturing industry, ideally reputed company Procurement, would be highly desirable
• Experience working with commodities would be an additional advantage
• Direct experience with cocoa would be a strong plus

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