Career Foundation Program; CFP) Associate - Finance Track

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As a Career Foundation Program (CFP) Associate – Corporate Finance, you will play a key role in analyzing business results and tracking key financial targets. As you move through the program, you’ll have the opportunity to learn our business, question company performance, and help to identify threats and opportunities. Your work will contribute to the team’s goal of acting as the analytical engine of the Company to provide insights and support channel and produce management in making optimal business decisions.

Provide daily direction to the business line managers and channel management:
As a valued Finance partner, your input will be used to in establishing strategy and running daily operations to include: evaluation of financial and business related data to provide valuable, accurate and timely information on sales performance; analysis of key performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances; performing competitor and industry analysis; and reviewing RFP’s to ensure revenue rates and cost assumptions are valid and projected margins are within business goals.

Support the Company’s financial reporting and analytical data requests:
To include weekly and monthly financial reporting as well as ad-hoc reporting and analysis. Utilize a business intelligence tool and implement dashboard reporting to monitor daily sales against targets, update cost trend reports and analyze results to ensure they are in line with the business forecast. Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial forecasts. Improve and streamline the Organization’s planning process, taking pride in the quality of information provided.

Design reports that present both actual and budget data in a concise manner for use by management in decision making. Perform special requests and participate with projects/presentations:
This will be on an as‑needed basis and is expected to increase as the CFP Associate is trained. This position is part of Smithfield’s Career Foundation Program (CFP) which is a training program designed to provide an opportunity for recent college graduates to explore career options through a function‑specific rotation. The program is divided into tracks, each of which is oriented towards a different part of the Company’s operations.

The program provides the CFP Associate with an opportunity to learn about an aspect of the Company’s business while simultaneously seeking a new position to launch a career with Smithfield. Company senior leaders, along with an assigned manager, mentor and program manager, will be available to provide guidance, training, and partnership throughout the CFP Associate’s assigned rotations. Rotations can last anywhere from 18‑months to 24‑months depending on the rotational track the Associate enters.

Our CFP Associates are expected to contribute to the goals of each department to which they are assigned. They will assist in problem‑solving, assume leadership roles for certain projects, help the department achieve…