Job Summary

Reporting to the Plant Finance Manager, you will be a partner with the finance team to the Council Bluffs Plant and Supply Chain Finance. You will perform complex and interpretive financial analysis for assigned areas and present recommendations to management. Responsibilities include Finance, Cost Accounting, General Accounting, and Financial Systems. Be a leader to less experienced staff. Lead small teams and work well with small ad-hoc project teams across the plant.

Position Responsibilities

• You will collaborate with others in the department on communication of weekly and monthly variances of labor, yield loss, materials usage, product costs, and overhead expense. Improve reporting analytics.
• You will contribute to the update of the monthly forecast and assist with the annual operating plan for assigned areas. Communicate changes to partners by providing specific, forward-looking commentary on the changes and guidance on potential risk.
• You will partner with Continuous Improvement and Operations teams to identify cost savings projects across the plant. Provide financial analysis for new projects, capital requests and new retail products.
• New product costing estimates and annual product costing in SAP.
• Contribute to month-end/quarter-end close activities to ensure completion of assigned tasks, including identification and resolution of unusual items and issues promptly, review of variances, reporting and journal entry coordination.
• Active involvement and participation in plant CPS and engagement activities.
• You will help ensure compliance with Sarbanes/Oxley, internal controls and external audit requests in the facility including reviewing inventory controls and safeguarding of company assets.

Position Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, or related degree required.
• 5+ years of professional general business and financial experience
• Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups and other data manipulation formulas).
• Experience with SAP and data visualization tools preferred
• Experience identifying areas for continuous improvement or cost reductions and making recommendations for enhancement.
• Experience consolidating complex information into usable customer-oriented formats
• At this time, we require applicants for this role to be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship either now or in the future.

Number of Days in Office: 5

Relocation assistance is available for this position. Preference will be given to local candidates.

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Our Benefits:

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company:

Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.

We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. ​