[Remote] Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HireTalent is a staffing and recruiting firm, and they are seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst to support the cocoa procurement organization. This role involves providing accurate financial analysis, reporting, and forecasting related to cocoa raw materials while collaborating with various departments to ensure financial integrity.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cocoa raw material costs, including futures, differentials, premiums, freight, sustainability premiums, and other cost components
• Prepare and explain cocoa PPV, purchase price evolution, and cost variances versus forecast, budget, and standard cost
• Support monthly close activities related to cocoa, including accruals, and reconciliations
• Support short- and mid-term cocoa cost forecasts
• Maintain and update cocoa forecast assumptions
• Assist in standard cost setting and annual planning processes for cocoa raw materials
• Work with data from systems such as S/4, iRely, and reporting tools to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Support SOX and internal control activities, including documentation, reconciliations, and audit requests related to cocoa
• Identify data gaps or process inefficiencies and support continuous improvement initiatives
• Act as a finance partner to Cocoa Procurement, Supply Chain, and Accounting teams
• Support ad-hoc analysis and management requests related to cocoa costs, contracts, and performance drivers
• Contribute to process harmonization and standardization initiatives across regions

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• 2–5 years of experience in finance, procurement finance, commodities, or supply chain finance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to translate complex commodity and contract data into clear financial insights
• Solid Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with SAP S/4 and/or commodity systems is a plus
• Strong FP&A foundation (typically ~5 years of experience suggested)
• Advanced Excel & financial modeling
• SAP S/4 experience (required)
• Comfort with large datasets and variance analysis
• Experience with commodity-based businesses (e.g., cocoa, agricultural commodities, ingredients) is strongly preferred
• Exposure to hedging concepts and futures markets is an advantage
• Power BI
• Commodity finance or procurement finance
• Exposure to hedging and futures markets
• Food manufacturing or agricultural commodities (cocoa is a strong plus)
• Experience in the food manufacturing industry, ideally within Procurement, would be highly desirable
• Experience working with commodities would be an additional advantage
• Direct experience with cocoa would be a strong plus

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