**Company Overview** **:**
**Are you looking for a new challenge and an exciting opportunity? If you are an individual looking for an opportunity to join a growing multi-national organization, we want to talk to you.**
We are looking for energetic, career minded and ambitious Early Career\Graduates candidates to join Kerry. We offer opportunities on a variety of finance teams including Operations Finance, Commercial Finance and Financial Control with a further opportunity to rotate between the different teams to get a broad understanding of all aspects of the business.
Joining Kerry gives you an opportunity to continue developing and learning with our graduate development program, Kerry Fundamentals, that offers management skills development as well an opportunity to work on a cross-functional business project. Kerry has had success with graduates that have joined the organization and have accelerated and progressed their careers. Many past members of the graduate program now hold Senior Leadership positions in the organization today.
Kerry develops, manufactures, and delivers technology-based ingredients, flavors and integrated solutions for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industry. With revenue exceeding $7 billion annually, and more than 15,000 products supplied to customers in 140 countries, Kerry is the global Taste & Nutrition leader. Our customers include the world’s biggest and best-known food and beverage manufacturers, retailers, and restaurants – as well as small companies and restaurants with very big dreams – which means every day millions of people worldwide consume food or beverages containing Kerry ingredients. Our success comes from our unique and unrivaled capability to combine technical expertise with innovative solutions.
**Description and Responsibilities** **:**
**Job Descriptions for some of the finance roles available at Kerry**
**Finance Analyst, Commercial**
+ Key resource to business unit management in supporting business strategies pertaining to pricing and margin management
+ Understand market trends, dynamics, price/volume trends and outlooks to recommend actions that lead to profitable growth
+ Support sales/marketing with analysis aimed at customer retention, pricing, business at risk, new business and business lost
+ Manage new business pipeline reporting and assess impact of new opportunities on the business portfolio
+ Assess key commodity market risk and the impact on pricing
+ Determine, validate and communicate quotes, credits and pricing to business teams
+ Forecasting, Budgeting and Monthly Reporting responsibility for business along with communication to the business team
+ Support executive and leadership meeting agendas including presentation material, analysis and support
**Finance Analyst, Operations**
+ Analyze and record material purchase accruals, inventory adjustments, freight accruals and market adjustments in relation to inventory at manufacturing locations.
+ Develop tools and reporting methods for variance reporting that identify and analyze key variables which affect the financial performance of the business.
+ Provide decision-making support to operations management team by providing accurate financial and statistical data.
+ Develop, prepare and present, mid-year and yearly budget projections
+ Assist in the development and implementation of process improvement initiatives in the manufacturing facility.
+ Finance Analyst, Financial Control
+ Responsible for preparation and presentation of timely, accurate, value-added information to senior executives including financial analysis and presentations that assist in strategic decision making.
+ Member of a corporate financial control team responsible for multiple tasks in areas of general ledger, financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, statutory accounts, projections and budgeting.
+ Support for business leadership through performance management. Understands business trends and monitors financial performance against benchmarks and key performance indicators.
+ Works closely with cross functional teams and business finance leadership to identify and analyze performance drivers.
+ Assist with process improvement and standardization by identifying and implementing changes within finance team to drive control, alignment, and efficiencies
**Finance Analyst, Central Operations**
+ Review and monitor centralized processes; while collaborating with Plant Controllers to ensure adherence and while developing and implementing corrective actions.
+ Analyze and record material purchase accruals, inventory adjustments, freight accruals and market adjustments in relation to inventory at manufacturing locations.
+ Develop tools and reporting methods for variance reporting that identify and analyze key variables which affect the financial performance of the business.
+ Develop, prepare and present, mid-year and yearly budget projections
+ Manage, review, audit and maintain process manufacturing master data
+ Assist in the development and implementation of process improvement initiatives across various regions and business units.
**Finance Analyst, Central Commercial**
+ Provide training, support and consolidation for centralized processes and systems in collaboration with the business unit commercial finance teams
+ Responsible for performing month-end tasks including invoicing, reconciliations and metrics reporting
+ Review all input files for reasonableness to mitigate costing inaccuracies and drive efficiency
+ Provide business users with accurate and timely reports to support business decision-making and performance management
+ Collaborate with functional and business stakeholders to identify and implement process improvements
+ Assist in the development and implementation of process improvement initiatives including user acceptance testing and deployment of new systems and upgrades
**Finance Analyst, Master Data Management (MDM)**
+ Cleanse and enrich current master data across finished product, raw material, customer and vendor which are critical to support business processes
+ Govern all new and change data requests for duplication, completeness, compliance and accuracy
+ Maintain a SharePoint site for creation/modification/inactivation of master data
+ Provide input on data strategy based on insight from the role
+ Training of stakeholders on MDM processes and workflows
+ Create, update and distribute meaningful reports including business data insights
**We are also looking to fill Financial Analyst roles in our regional shared services including treasury, tax, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.**
**Qualifications** **:**
+ Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Accounting/Finance or related area
+ Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build and maintain relationships and communicate professionally to all levels of an organization
+ Excellent time management and organizational skills
+ Ability to work as part of a team environment
+ Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
**Key Competencies:**
+ Analytical skills
+ Commercial/business acumen
+ Communication and collaboration
+ Continuous improvement
**We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.**
**Requisition ID** _2016-5780_
**Division** _Kerry_
**Job Locations** _US_ _-_ _WI_ _-_ _Beloit_
**Position Type** _Full Time_
**Recruiter** _AB_
**Posting Type** _LIHJ_