Financial Analyst -Greenhouse Analytics

Primary Function:

The Analyst will provide support for all company owned greenhouses. This includes analyzing yield data, monitoring horticulture expenses, designing performance indicators, and providing recommendations to management to drive improvements.

Values:

To perform the job successfully, the incumbent’s behavior must be consistent with the PRIDE values expected of all Mastronardi Produce employees: be Passionate; have Respect; be Innovative; be Driven and strive for Excellence.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing crop yields and horticulture costs for all greenhouses.
• Maintain crop mix and timing schedules and perform analysis to maximize profitability based on climate, greenhouse structure, crop variety and sales input.
• Design, improve, and maintain complex models for analysis.
• Perform scenario, simulation, and sensitivity analysis when required.
• Independently perform variance analysis summarizing key drivers, insights, and risks/ops into high-level commentary.
• Assist in building business cases to support and guide business decisions.
• Support periodic forecast, budget planning, month end close processes, and facilitate periodic reviews.
• Responsible for packaging analytics for each farm
• Analyze and interpret financial data to determine financial performance and/or to project future benefits.
• Maintain processes to ensure data quality and accuracy.

Education/Background Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required.
• Three years of related analytical experience required.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Experienced in designing dynamic financial models in performing scenario analysis.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; including experience in cleansing and manipulating large data sets for analysis and distilling to management summaries in presentations.
• Communications, customer service, change management, and process improvement skills and experience.
• Proficient in analysis of financial and operating information to facilitate decision making and recommending actions to improve performance.
• Experience in VBA and SQL preferred.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to synthesize disparate information and deliver meaningful insights.
• Must be flexible and willing to adapt to changing requirements and priorities.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.

Working Conditions:

• Typical office environment.
• May periodically travel to visit company greenhouses in USA and Canada.