Plant Finance Senior Analyst Middle-East Africa at Cargill

Job Purpose and Impact

The Plant Finance Senior Analyst will apply in depth knowledge to provide financial decision support and insight as the finance business partner to both management and operational teams for complex facilities for the Animal Nutrition buisiness of Cargill in the MEA region. In this role, you will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure results are timely, qualitative, analyzed and understood. You will provide essential partnership in the business decision process and continuously improve the financial processes.

Key Accountabilities

• Evaluate and measure relevant cost drivers to manage manufacturing costs and plant performance to drive value creation and preservation.
• Provide finance business partnership for management teams by understanding and supporting strategic business priorities, challenges and impacts within the assigned plants.
• Develop and maintain relationships with business leadership and business teams.
• Foster continuous improvement in the finance team, challenge the status quo and play a leading role in increasing effectiveness and efficiency of our broader finance team.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economy,Finance, Accounting or equivalent experience
• Experience working with related programs and planning tools
• Knowledge of manufacturing cost drivers
• Experience with variance analysis statistical tools
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Availability to travel up to 20%.