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Financial Analyst - Corporate Planning
NY - Fairport
Opportunity Snapshot
Grow your financial experience and build a rewarding career with Constellation Brands, the premier global provider of wine, beer and related beverages. We are currently in the process of transitioning to a new Hyperion Financial Management-based planning and reporting system and are in need of a savvy Financial Analyst who can help us make the most proficient use of this new tool, hone our financial consolidation activities, and allow for daily sales volume reporting, while also supporting our regular monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting and annual planning processes.
If you have:
- 2+ years Financial Analysis experience
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills
- Exceptional financial skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Keen attention to detail
- Strong self-initiative and follow through
- Rock solid integrity
- Capacity to work well both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to travel
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Financial Accounting, or equivalent field
Preferred, but not required:
- Experience with Hyperion Financial Management or System 9 Planning
- Experience with JDE Financial Systems
- Multinational finance experience and/or experience working with multiple currencies
- Experience with interactive file exchanges
Then this is your opportunity to add value to our financial reporting processes and make an impact within a growing global organization in a position that also offers:
- Great work environment -- we enjoy a tight-knit team atmosphere and an entrepreneurial culture, both of which invite innovation and encourage collaboration.
- Ongoing challenge & variety -- intermingled into our regular deadlines, you'll encounter a mix of new initiatives and special projects that will increase your exposure, broaden your skill set, and definitely keep things interesting.
- Broad visibility -- you'll also have a great deal of exposure to Senior Management and will frequently interact with many areas of the organization -- including Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Strategic Planning -- as well as each of our operating divisions, including those in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Canada. In fact, you can expect to travel a couple times a year to our various global divisions in order to better get to know these partners in a face-to-face environment.
- Ideal combination of autonomy & support -- with the benefits of a supportive manager and cooperative team to back you up, you'll be empowered to take control of your initiatives and to develop your own processes for achieving your objectives.
- Excellent compensation -- in addition to a generous salary, you'll become eligible for our annual bonus plan, a full benefits package (including a company-matched 401k plan), wine allowance and product discounts, and more.
- Career advancement -- this position is your "foot in the door" to a rapidly expanding, global organization. Success in this role may lead to expanded responsibilities within this department, or if you prefer, a transition into other areas of finance and/or into one of our operating companies.
More About Your Role
As Financial Analyst for Corporate Planning, you'll report to the Manager of FP&A Reporting and join the team responsible for assembling a series of consolidated financial packages each month for Senior Management (including the Volume Flash, monthly earnings, and CEO package), annual and 5-year strategic planning and guidance for all company divisions, and quarterly forecasting. With strong financial and Excel skills already under your belt, you'll quickly get up to speed through on-the-job training wherein you'll learn the specifics of our organization, brands, reporting metrics and reports, and become comfortable with our new Hyperion Financial Management tool, if you're not already proficient. Starting in October, you'll also take part in our annual planning season, which lasts around 4 to 6 months, and get a true understanding of our entire planning and forecasting process.
Your overall responsibilities in this role will include:
- Coordinating and collecting monthly financial data, and analyzing monthly financial results
- Supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting, planning and reporting
- Consolidating our monthly Sales Flash
- Preparing the monthly financial package
- Assisting in the Annual Plan and periodic Forecasts
Keys to Success
In addition to proficient financial skills, success in this role will call for:
- Keen attention to detail -- you'll support vital decision making and company strategizing by ensuring the utmost in accuracy and consistency in your output.
- Strong analytical ability -- with acute strategic thinking and conceptual skills, you'll go on to help these numbers make sense to the rest of the organization by presenting them in a format that effectively narrates your findings and delivers your point.
- Flexibility -- we operate within very short timelines in a fast-paced environment that will require you to remain adaptable to changing priorities and capable of making up for lost time in pressing situations, without losing sight of your day-to-day responsibilities. You'll also need to be comfortable dealing with various currencies and operational cultures and consolidating data that arrives in different formats. Working with divisions in drastically different time zones will also require you to remain flexible with your schedule in order to accomodate our counterparts around the world.
- Innovation & self initiative -- you'll also help us stay more prepared for any last-minute time "squeezes" by anticipating questions in advance, finding ways to give us more time to analyze the data before it is distributed, and identifying ways in which we can improve our current processes.
- Great people skills -- you'll aspire to build solid working relationships with your immediate team, your counterparts in our operating companies, and others throughout the organization built upon high integrity, trust, open communication, and the promise to follow through on your commitments.
- A team player mentality -- you'll show a willingness to collaborate openly with our group and pitch in to help when someone is out of the office or in need of additional assistance.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity, and you meet the required qualifications, we look forward to hearing from you.
About Us
Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer (into the United States) and spirits categories. Constellation is the largest wine company in the world; the largest multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States and Canada; a leading producer and exporter of wine from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; and both a major producer and independent drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom.
With more than 250 beverage alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice, no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. In the 1990s, Constellation embarked on its multi-category strategy as a means of achieving a balanced portfolio better able to respond to consumer preferences and to reduce dependency on a single category or geography. This strategy supports stable growth in volume, cash flow, return on invested capital and value.
Globally, Constellation Brands is the largest wine producing company by volume. It is also the third largest U.S. beverage alcohol company based upon retail sales in the food and drug channels. Following the recent join venture between Constellation Brands and Grupo Modelo, our Mexican beer portfolio is the undisputed imported beer leader in the United States, and our North American spirits division ranks among the top in its category.
Today, Constellation Brands has gross sales of more than $5.2 billion annually. It operates more than 60 production facilities, has 9,200 employees worldwide and sells or markets products in North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. For additional information, please visit www.cbrands.com.
Opportunity Snapshot
Grow your financial experience and build a rewarding career with Constellation Brands, the premier global provider of wine, beer and related beverages. We are currently in the process of transitioning to a new Hyperion Financial Management-based planning and reporting system and are in need of a savvy Financial Analyst who can help us make the most proficient use of this new tool, hone our financial consolidation activities, and allow for daily sales volume reporting, while also supporting our regular monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting and annual planning processes.
If you have:
- 2+ years Financial Analysis experience
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills
- Exceptional financial skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Keen attention to detail
- Strong self-initiative and follow through
- Rock solid integrity
- Capacity to work well both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to travel
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Financial Accounting, or equivalent field
Preferred, but not required:
- Experience with Hyperion Financial Management or System 9 Planning
- Experience with JDE Financial Systems
- Multinational finance experience and/or experience working with multiple currencies
- Experience with interactive file exchanges
Then this is your opportunity to add value to our financial reporting processes and make an impact within a growing global organization in a position that also offers:
- Great work environment -- we enjoy a tight-knit team atmosphere and an entrepreneurial culture, both of which invite innovation and encourage collaboration.
- Ongoing challenge & variety -- intermingled into our regular deadlines, you'll encounter a mix of new initiatives and special projects that will increase your exposure, broaden your skill set, and definitely keep things interesting.
- Broad visibility -- you'll also have a great deal of exposure to Senior Management and will frequently interact with many areas of the organization -- including Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Strategic Planning -- as well as each of our operating divisions, including those in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Canada. In fact, you can expect to travel a couple times a year to our various global divisions in order to better get to know these partners in a face-to-face environment.
- Ideal combination of autonomy & support -- with the benefits of a supportive manager and cooperative team to back you up, you'll be empowered to take control of your initiatives and to develop your own processes for achieving your objectives.
- Excellent compensation -- in addition to a generous salary, you'll become eligible for our annual bonus plan, a full benefits package (including a company-matched 401k plan), wine allowance and product discounts, and more.
- Career advancement -- this position is your "foot in the door" to a rapidly expanding, global organization. Success in this role may lead to expanded responsibilities within this department, or if you prefer, a transition into other areas of finance and/or into one of our operating companies.
More About Your Role
As Financial Analyst for Corporate Planning, you'll report to the Manager of FP&A Reporting and join the team responsible for assembling a series of consolidated financial packages each month for Senior Management (including the Volume Flash, monthly earnings, and CEO package), annual and 5-year strategic planning and guidance for all company divisions, and quarterly forecasting. With strong financial and Excel skills already under your belt, you'll quickly get up to speed through on-the-job training wherein you'll learn the specifics of our organization, brands, reporting metrics and reports, and become comfortable with our new Hyperion Financial Management tool, if you're not already proficient. Starting in October, you'll also take part in our annual planning season, which lasts around 4 to 6 months, and get a true understanding of our entire planning and forecasting process.
Your overall responsibilities in this role will include:
- Coordinating and collecting monthly financial data, and analyzing monthly financial results
- Supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting, planning and reporting
- Consolidating our monthly Sales Flash
- Preparing the monthly financial package
- Assisting in the Annual Plan and periodic Forecasts
Keys to Success
In addition to proficient financial skills, success in this role will call for:
- Keen attention to detail -- you'll support vital decision making and company strategizing by ensuring the utmost in accuracy and consistency in your output.
- Strong analytical ability -- with acute strategic thinking and conceptual skills, you'll go on to help these numbers make sense to the rest of the organization by presenting them in a format that effectively narrates your findings and delivers your point.
- Flexibility -- we operate within very short timelines in a fast-paced environment that will require you to remain adaptable to changing priorities and capable of making up for lost time in pressing situations, without losing sight of your day-to-day responsibilities. You'll also need to be comfortable dealing with various currencies and operational cultures and consolidating data that arrives in different formats. Working with divisions in drastically different time zones will also require you to remain flexible with your schedule in order to accomodate our counterparts around the world.
- Innovation & self initiative -- you'll also help us stay more prepared for any last-minute time "squeezes" by anticipating questions in advance, finding ways to give us more time to analyze the data before it is distributed, and identifying ways in which we can improve our current processes.
- Great people skills -- you'll aspire to build solid working relationships with your immediate team, your counterparts in our operating companies, and others throughout the organization built upon high integrity, trust, open communication, and the promise to follow through on your commitments.
- A team player mentality -- you'll show a willingness to collaborate openly with our group and pitch in to help when someone is out of the office or in need of additional assistance.
If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity, and you meet the required qualifications, we look forward to hearing from you.
About Us
Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ, ASX: CBR), headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer (into the United States) and spirits categories. Constellation is the largest wine company in the world; the largest multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States and Canada; a leading producer and exporter of wine from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; and both a major producer and independent drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom.
With more than 250 beverage alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice, no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. In the 1990s, Constellation embarked on its multi-category strategy as a means of achieving a balanced portfolio better able to respond to consumer preferences and to reduce dependency on a single category or geography. This strategy supports stable growth in volume, cash flow, return on invested capital and value.
Globally, Constellation Brands is the largest wine producing company by volume. It is also the third largest U.S. beverage alcohol company based upon retail sales in the food and drug channels. Following the recent join venture between Constellation Brands and Grupo Modelo, our Mexican beer portfolio is the undisputed imported beer leader in the United States, and our North American spirits division ranks among the top in its category.
Today, Constellation Brands has gross sales of more than $5.2 billion annually. It operates more than 60 production facilities, has 9,200 employees worldwide and sells or markets products in North America, South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. For additional information, please visit www.cbrands.com.
