Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Glanbia Health & Nutrition- Finance

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey

 The Opportunity

The Finance Analyst – SG&A will support the H&N Finance team in analysing, understanding, reporting, and planning for SG&A expenses.  The analyst will monitor, analyse, and report on the financial performance of SG&A expenses for the business primarily focussed on people costs, other G&A costs, intercompany recharges, and other SG&A expenses. This role is critical in driving financial insight and strategic decision-making across SG&A initiatives.

The role will provide financial input into budgeting and forecasting cycles to ensure SG&A costs are appropriately planned for.  The role will partner with various functions across the business including HR, Commercial, R&D, and others in order to help develop the SG&A plan and also to support other key initiatives around SG&A expenses. This role will be part of H&N's Global Finance team and will collaborate cross functionally to transform financial reporting into actionable analystics that drive business performance. 

Primary responsibilities for this role will include:

• Support the Finance team in analysing and understanding SG&A expenses
• Support the SGA financial planning processes throughout the year through collaboration with the broader finance team and various business stakeholders
• Support the month-end close process around SG&A expenses by reviewing actual expenses versus planned expenses and investigating, understanding, and documenting variances; provide commentary on movements versus prior year and forecast.
• Review individual invoices and expenses to understand their nature to ensure they are being recorded appropriately, within the right period, and within the right company code, GL and cost center
• Liaise with other parts of Glanbia to understand recharges and allocations and report on such costs as required.
• Prepare SG&A cost center reporting for relevant stakeholders and help them understand their actual expenses and variances to plan and prior year
• Support the overall SG&A storytelling effort for the business by preparing clear and insightful reporting and presentations of actual results versus plan and prior year; create value add monthly reports and analytics that inform on operating expenses performance.
• Help develop and improve systems and processes around SG&A expenses in order to advance our understanding of our cost base
• Assist the Finance team as required on ad hoc projects and participate in various projects where relevant including support to the CFO, executive teams, and Group teams.

The skills and experience you will bring to the team

• Qualified accountant with 1-2 years PQE.
• A self-starter, with an inquisitive mindset, ability to take ownership and drives improvements in reporting and analysis.
• Accurate and detail orientated in approach to work and performing tasks.
• Ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional teams
• Ability to communicate financial information and analysis to non-financial audiences.
• Analytical mind-set with experience in data analysis and manipulating and reporting on large quantities of information/data.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience of working with SAP, Business Objects and SAC (reporting tools) strongly preferred.
• Experience partnering with finance, HR marketing, , or commercial teams in a fast-paced, consumer-focused environment strongly preferred.

Where and how you will work  

The opportunity will be based in our Dublin, City West office with hybrid working arrangements available through which allows you a greater choice in how you work and live, giving you a better work-life balance.  

About Glanbia  

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.