Senior Financial Analyst, Brand Marketing_

**Brand:** Post Consumer Brands**Categories:** Finance**Locations:** Lakeville, Minnesota**Position Type:** Regular Full-Time**Remote Eligible:** No**Req ID:** 24652**Job Description****Business Unit Overview**Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news. Brand Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets. At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America. Location Description Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America. Responsibilities This position will serve as a finance partner to our internal brand marketing teams by providing impactful financial analysis and insights that maximize top and bottom-line business performance. This position will provide proactive decision support and guidance to their brand partners that increases the overall financial acumen across the team. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter, be able to independently and effectively navigate and interact across multiple functions, and thrive in a fast paced, changing environment. Working Location: Hybrid This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office. Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week. Responsibilities Include: Partner with Marketing and Finance teams to construct plans aimed at optimizing price position, improving spend efficiency and capturing new distribution. Lead monthly brand financial reviews, providing implications of business trends and variances while highlighting opportunity areas. Analyze and articulate performance against key revenue and volume metrics. Provide perspective on drivers of mix, net pricing, and trade spend. Support innovation by creating and analyzing P&Ls to ensure financial viability of new products. Conduct budget performance reviews with all supported departments. Recommend proactive adjustments as needed to ensure alignment to Plan. Complete ad-hoc financial analysis as directed. Qualifications Education: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics preferred. Experience: 4+ years of job experience in a role where analytical skills were applied. Experience building and managing P&Ls or other financial statements in a previous role. Skills: Strong financial and analytical skills; Ability to think critically, draw conclusions from information and develop recommendations. Must be able to effectively interact, collaborate and communicate across multiple functions in the organization, cooperating to drive results that influence business decisions with concrete financial support. Ability to work through ambiguity, take initiative, and navigate challenges and obstacles. Ability to plan, prioritize and manage workload in an environment of competing priorities. Computer skills: moderate to advanced use of Excel.Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)