Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Sales
Inver Grove Heights, MN, US, 55077-1721
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.
Summary
CHS is seeking an experienced finance leader and business partner to support our enterprise customer development team. This position will strengthen analytical capabilities, provide financial and decision support to enterprise-wide go-to-market (GTM) initiatives and help drive volume and margin growth opportunities across the CHS enterprise. The individual must have strong data, systems and analytical skills, project management skills, and be comfortable working in a matrixed organization. This role will partner with CHS’ go-to-market (GTM) business and leadership team. The ideal candidate combines strong financial and business acumens with business partnering excellence, helping customer-facing teams make informed decisions to meet volume, margin and customer objectives. The role will report to the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis, Enterprise Customer Development.
Responsibilities
Lead team of finance professionals supporting the GTM business and leadership team
- Align finance associates to support enterprise wide GTM initiatives, ensuring optimal support and service
- Review work products prepared by team members to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to highest standards, providing constructive feedback and coaching
- Support the development of team members by sharing best practices, building technical and process knowledge, and increasing overall team capability and resiliency
- Act as a role model for ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, fostering a collaborative and high‑performance reporting culture within the team.
Strengthen GTM and FP&A analytical capabilities
- Lead financial and analytical support for enterprise-level GTM initiatives from design to implementation to align GTM strategies with the company’s objectives; Partner with business and function leaders across the company to ensure successful execution once initiatives are launched
- Partner with GTM leaders to develop success metrics, and implementation plans; Establish timelines, monitor progress and evaluate ROI
- Analyze volume and margin performance by customer or customer segment; providing insights that clearly highlight risks and opportunities with recommended actions
- Build scalable financial models that support scenario planning with sensitivity analyses
Support GTM initiatives to identify volume and margin growth opportunities across business
- Develop GTM reports to enable identification of sales and margin optimization opportunities for our wholesale and retail operations
- Partner with Strategy team for market trends and industry benchmarks to gather findings and insights that can be leveraged to improve GTM decision-making capabilities with formal communication to leaders
- Provide actionable insights, financial counsel to drive more favorable mix from focus products across the company
- Support ad hoc initiatives aligned with enterprise wide GTM strategic objectives
Minimum Qualifications (required)
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, or related field
- 4+ years of financial management experience including strategic and business planning, accounting, financial analysis, and project management
- Experience with team leadership, talent engagement and development
Additional Qualifications
- MBA/CPA/CMA
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills across organization and to senior leaders
- Experience with data visualization tools, SAP/BPC and CRM software
- Confirmed proficiency in financial analysis, modeling, and forecasting
- Demonstrated learning agility with the ability to understand complex business problems
- Experienced user of ERP systems and forecasting tools as well as strong experience working with various types of data and information
- Excellent organizational skills, ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks at once
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization
- Experience with predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Previous experience providing financial support to sales and sales support team
- Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse
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CHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.
CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.
Please note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. If you have questions regarding an employment opportunity, please reach out to chscareers@chsinc.com; to verify that the communication is from CHS.