Sr Analyst, FP&A

Cresco Labs - Chicago, IL

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

Cresco Labs is seeking a Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to support the Senior Manager by providing comprehensive financial insights and support to drive business performance across our operations. The ideal candidate will excel in reporting, data analytics, analyzing trends and variances, tracking KPIs and management dashboards to support strategic business decisions relating to Cresco's Operations. Our ideal candidate must be a self-starter who is highly organized with great attention to detail and thrives in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will work in collaboration with the operations and finance teams to understand the business structure, business model, pricing, and cost components of Cresco's branded products to provide appropriate reporting. You will need to understand costing information in order to provide insights on cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution for Cresco's products with a view to meeting short, medium, and long-term objectives. The position involves the collection and extraction of financial and market data for various business units (i.e., cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, and brands) and helping to maintain budget and forecast templates and various financial models. Additionally, you will perform ad-hoc financial/quantitative analysis and various reporting, financial modeling, and business operations requests. Building a collaborative working relationship and becoming one of the financial liaisons with divisional and corporate leadership to support management and business unit reporting for Cresco's Operations is essential. You will also help ensure compliance with applicable divisional and corporate policies, track and support effective process flows and internal controls over capital and operating expenditures, and support the monthly close process to ensure timely, accurate, and complete financial accounting and reporting. Finally, you will provide performance reporting and variance analysis to budgets and forecasts, and offer effective support to the Senior Manager, FP&A in all data collection and extraction to support strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with operations and finance teams to understand business structure and model.
• Provide appropriate reporting on pricing and cost components of Cresco's branded products.
• Analyze costing information to provide insights on cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution.
• Collect and extract financial and market data for various business units.
• Maintain budget and forecast templates and financial models.
• Perform ad-hoc financial/quantitative analysis and reporting.
• Build collaborative relationships with divisional and corporate leadership.
• Ensure compliance with divisional and corporate policies.
• Track and support effective process flows and internal controls.
• Support the monthly close process for accurate financial reporting.
• Provide performance reporting and variance analysis to budgets and forecasts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related quantitative field required.
• 3+ years of FP&A, data analyst or relevant work experience in a finance environment preferably in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or Cannabis industry.
• Strong financial acumen including experience with data collection, management reporting, variance analysis and other analyst support functions in forecasting and budgeting.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and presentation skills.
• Ability to balance multiple, diverse priorities and produce high quality deliverables.
• Functional knowledge of financial reporting systems and methodologies.
• Proficient with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.).
• Experience working with Adaptive Insights, Intacct, SAP BPC is beneficial but not required.
• Communication skills of explaining complex data topics to non-experts.
• Proficient in Tableau and building reporting dashboards is beneficial but not required.
• Strong experience working with large-scale datasets and multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Adaptive Insights, Intacct, SAP BPC.
• Proficiency in Tableau and building reporting dashboards.

Benefits

• Major medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(K)-match program.
• FSA/HSA programs.
• LTD/STD options.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Annual discretionary bonuses.
• Stock options.
• Participation in employee discount program.