Financial Analyst

at  General Mills

Job Description:
Financial Analyst:
Our mission as a Finance organization is to lead General Mills in creating strategies that maximize shareholder value, while flawlessly executing our fiduciary responsibility. As a Financial Analyst, you will be an integral part of the General Mills team and are expected to contribute your ideas and suggestions from day one.

You’ll discover a broad range of opportunities in Finance across the organization. You’ll work with the industry’s most successful brand names. As a Financial Analyst, you will be a member of a team tasked with building business partnerships and leveraging your financial acumen to drive business results. This posting is for the Finance team, and your General Mills career can take you many places:

• Sales Finance
• Market Strategy & Revenue Management Finance
• Marketing Finance
• Supply Chain Finance
• Planning and Analysis
• Cross Functional Rotations

Financial Analyst Responsibilities

You will work closely with your assigned business partners to help deliver organizational goals by executing the following activities:

• Apply financial acumen and technical understanding to provide insights on profitability, P&L management & growth drivers
• Analyze performance results and strategies to present to various levels of the organization including senior leadership
• Conduct financial and business analysis to generate insights that influence cross-functional decision-making and shareholder value
• Leverage data and information systems to forecast performance and articulate key drivers of change
• Lead and execute effective and efficient financial processes

Qualifications
Qualified candidates will possess strong business and financial acumen and will be able to demonstrate their ability to consistently deliver outstanding results.

Specifically, strong candidates will possess and display:

• Applied technical/financial expertise
• Strong business partnership skills
• Demonstrated superior performance
• A practical and creative approach to problem solving
• Ability to understand, analyze and communicate financial reports
• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to influence
• Ability to create and follow a process
• A broad business perspective
• Commitment to self-development and the development of others

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 1-2 years work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• 3+ years work experience

Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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