Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

Glanbia

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey

The Opportunity

This role involves supporting and developing the Accounting and Control function in Flavors. Core responsibilities include cash management/application, customer & material reconciliations, balance sheets reconciliations, accounts receivable monitoring and accounts payable processing. Other key responsibilities include supporting the development of the Commercial/Operations Finance function and SAP/Systems integration that will take place in 2026/2027. Our team is responsible for financial reporting, planning, controls and business partnering with other internal/external stakeholders. This permanent position will report to the Assistant Financial Controller.

• Key player in the day to day running of the finance function in Flavors
• Support the month end close process for Flavors and associated reporting and controls
• Support the consolidation of monthly results and feed into the monthly reporting process led by the GN consolidation team
• Play a key role in the Finance integration by demonstrating Glanbia Nutritionals way of working and participate in efforts to bring the Flavors team into the greater GN finance forum
• Accounts Receivable reporting and monitoring
• Payment processing in line with associated controls
• Support the Commercial/Operations finance function in Flavors as it evolves and key player in reporting KPIs and Commercial performance
• Key player in the overall finance and systems integration of Flavors and support Flavors finance team in this work. Be a key liaison between Flavors and GN
• Play a role in ensuring that the required accounting control procedures are in place and are effective. This includes the control and reconciliation of the Flavors Balance Sheet in line with the Balance Sheet responsibility matrix
• Key role in close process ensuring group deadlines are met
• Support the evolving financial planning process and associated reporting requirements.
• Support financial process and systems improvement activity ensuring all GN financial planning and reporting process are optimized and aligned with overall GN reporting structures
• Cross-train with other GN analysts/teams and feed learnings back to Flavors finance team

The Skills you will bring to the team

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of one to three years related experience and qualified CPA, CMA, CIMA, ACA or ACCA.
• Strong financial acumen including strong technical accounting skills
• Effective leadership and influencing skills
• Ability to work in a cross functional matrix organization
• Hands on experience of using and operating SAP systems (preferably with knowledge of BCS) and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Provide leadership to others through example of sharing of knowledge/skill
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
• Ability to write reports and correspondence
• Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routing database activity, word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please apply!

Where and how you will work

The opportunity will be based in Chicago, Illinois withhybrid working arrangements available which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.

Compensation

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in IL. This range may not be applicable to other locations. Factors that could be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, years of experience and comparison to current employees already in this role. The typical candidate is hired below midpoint of the range. The annual salary for IL based employees for this role is $70-80K with an annual bonus.

What we would like to offer you!

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.