Supply Chain

Summary

Join Kerry, a multi-billion-dollar company, and experience flexibility in your career as your interests change. This role offers support and opportunities for growth in the food, beverage, and pharma industries.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year accredited college or university in accounting/finance or related field
• Strong interpersonal skills with the proven ability to communicate effectively to all levels of an organization
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• A curious mindset

Responsibilities

• Partner with different functions to ensure controls are robust and operating effectively
• Contribute to business performance by bringing the best financial insights enabling Kerry to deliver on its goals
• Be exposed to a range of centers of expertise such as Accountant, Financial Control, Tax and Treasury
• Assist with standardizing processes, highlighting and implementing changes within finance team to drive efficiencies
• Assist in preparation and presentation of timely, accurate, value-added information to senior executive including financial analysis and presentations that assists in strategic decision making
• Assist with monitoring and measuring financial performance of Kerry Americas against Key Performance Indicators
• Be a key resource to business unit Executive Management in development of business strategies including marketing, selling, and profitability improvement
• Forecasting, Budgeting and Monthly Reporting responsibility for business along with communication to the business team
• Support executive and leadership meeting agendas including presentation material, analyses and support
• Understand market trends, dynamics, price/volume trends and outlooks in order to recommend actions that lead to profitable growth
• Support sales/marketing with analysis aimed at customer retention, pricing, business at risk, new business and business lost impacts
• Manage new business pipeline reporting and assess impact of new opportunities on the business portfolio
• Assess key commodity markets risk and the impact on pricing
• Determine, validate and communicate quotes, credits and pricing to business teams
• Review and monitor centralized processes, while collaborating with Plant Controllers to ensure adherence and while developing and implementing corrective actions
• Analyze and book material purchase accruals, inventory adjustments, freight accrual and market adjustments in relation to North American inventory at each manufacturing location
• Variance reporting. Develop tools and reporting methods that identify and analyze key variables which affect the financial performance of each business unit; finished goods mix, cost of material, direct costs, formula mix, etc
• Develop, prepare and present, mid-year and yearly budget projections
• Manage, review, audit and correct process manufacturing master data
• Assist in the development and implementation of process improvement initiatives across various regions and business units