Commercial Finance Manager - Chicago, IL

About the position

The Commercial Finance Manager, Nutrition is key in providing financial and business support by analyzing data, summarizing insights, and developing for leaders globally making critical business decisions. The ideal candidate must be able to leverage their finance skills and experience to effectively partner with commercial and marketing teams in a fast growth environment. The role provides a high degree of exposure to Nutrition and ADM senior leadership, plus the opportunity to interact with the global Nutrition team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with global sales leadership to define growth strategies and objectives that align with growth targets
• Determine key drivers of opportunity pipeline activity and provide insights on movements in trends
• Provide insights to senior management around financial modeling, forecasts, and profitability
• Implement performance tracking process and critical metrics for the Nutrition business unit and cascading metrics
• Support standardization and coordination of global Nutrition finance analytics
• Perform scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, benchmarking of business unit performance, forecasts and budget
• Prepare business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
• Utilize Business Intelligence tools to deliver meaningful insights into business performance

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration. MBA is a plus
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in finance related areas. Experience in FP&A, controlling, audit or accounting is a plus
• Current or previous FP&A experience supporting global sales or marketing in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Nutrition or Ag industry desired
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Good communication skills - objective, clear, concise, both written and verbal
• Good organizational skills
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM tools
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn about the Nutrition businesses
• Process improvement and action orientation
• Strong functional understanding of ADM's operating structure is a plus

Nice-to-haves

• MBA is a plus
• Experience in FP&A, controlling, audit or accounting is a plus
• Strong functional understanding of ADM's operating structure is a plus