Financial Analyst I, Trade Spend

At McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.

Founded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.

While our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America with recognized brands.

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical values.

Position Overview

The Financial Analyst is an integral member of the Commercial Finance team and will be the subject matter expert for critical pricing activities including the execution of updating and maintaining multiple customer price pages, implementing pricing changes in SAP and researching invoice pricing discrepancies while working with the cross functional teams on resolutions. The Financial Analyst will also provide support to the Sr Financial Analyst in the trade spend reporting and analysis space.

Responsibilities

• Point person responsible for executing and maintaining customer price pages for any changes including but not limited to; pricing actions, new item launches or discontinuations, changes in customer deals, or any other ad hoc price page updates
• Publish customer price pages in an accurate and timely way to enable sales to communicate with the customer
• Maintain and update customer specific pricing in SAP
• Determine root cause of pricing discrepancies and drive resolution and future corrective actions
• Provide support to Financial Analyst II on Trade Spend reporting, forecasting and analysis
• Process Improvement – Continually standardizing and optimizing processes/reporting
• Participate actively in projects and ad-hoc analyses
  
  

Key Qualifications

• Bachelors – Accounting, Finance or Business Management
• 7+ years of experience in a financial analyst role
• Excellent interpersonal (written and verbal) communications skills with a demonstrated ability to work across
  
  

functions & cultures and interact with all levels of the organization required

• Strong proficiency in MS Excel required
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Word and MS PowerPoint required
• The successful candidate will be very detail oriented, have strong interpersonal and teamwork abilities,
  
  

demonstrated grammatical and organizational skills and must be a self-starter, who is able

to work independently

• Understands available reporting, drill down capabilities, and able to organize data in a way that
  
  

adds value to analysis

• Demonstrated ability to proactively solve problems, multi-task, deliver accurate financial deliverables,
  
  

and work in cross functional teams

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.