Financial Analyst

The Dannon Company, established in America in 1942, is America’s founding national yogurt company and continually leverages its expertise to develop and market innovative cultured fresh dairy food products in the U.S.  Dannon is one of the fastest growing fresh dairy food companies in the U.S. and is part of Groupe Danone, the world's largest fresh dairy company worldwide.

 

Dannon U.S. manufactures on average over 9 million individual servings of cultured fresh dairy food products each day. Dannon's product portfolio includes over 120 different sku's in various types, formats, flavors and sizes.  Our culture and values foster individual professional growth and we reward entrepreneurialism and teamwork. For more information, please visit www.dannon.com

 

We currently have an opening for a Financial Analyst

 

Summary of Position:  Responsible for financial support to the Grocery Chain Sales Division. Chain division includes primarily large direct national chain accounts. The main overview of the position is managing the Net Sales lines on the P&L, by account, with emphasis on Trade.

 

Responsibilities:

·  Manage trade dollars, earned and spent.

·  Manage Net Sales by account

·  Hands On support to sales

·  Support Trade/Reporting Systems

·  Monthly communication of trade position

 

(A)  Minimum

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related discipline.

·  Strong computer skills - requires expertise working with Excel (pivot tables, V-lookups, Tables Links, Filters)

·  Four to 5 years of experience in analysis of financial information: Trade deal analysis such as Payback, Margins, ROI, Net Sales, Deal Lifts, Incremental Performance

·  Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

·  Ability to travel 25%

 

 

(B)  Desirable but not essential

·  Vista Trade System

·  Essbase

·  Business ObjectsCPG experience

 

We offer an excellent salary and benefits package and outstanding career advancement potential.  Please send your resume with complete salary history. We can only respond to qualified candidates.  EOE M/F/D/V.  Qualified females and minorities are encouraged to apply.