Business Analyst

Summary

Reporting to the Profitability and Pricing Manager, the Business Analyst is responsible for managing and improving the profitability of specific business segments within Griffith Foods in alignment with our company strategy.

The role delivers business analytics and develops recommendations to senior leadership and Sales to guide key business decisions with a direct impact to our company performance and strategy initiatives.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Lead analytical support for senior leadership, Sales, and other internal stakeholders to develop and execute value-added pricing strategies and business proposals.
• Support sales with pricing activities focused on margin improvement, business analytics and sales reporting. Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for pricing action.

Recommends and develops improvements to the existing pricing process, guidelines, and strategies.

• Develops and executes profitable pricing strategies and business proposals in alignment with our company purpose and strategy through collaboration with senior leadership, sales, purchasing, product development, supply chain, and other cross-functional teams.
• Prepares financial scenario models and proposes pricing options based on value-add, market and competitive information to drive financial performance.
• Complete and executes account profitability analysis and price review process as per schedule to maintain or improve profitability of our key accounts.

In addition, provide supporting documents and complete customer templates as required to support price changes.

• Assists in financial forecasting and fiscal year budgeting process through effective collaboration and communication with Sales, and detailed analysis.
• Ensures new business activities achieve contribution margin and gross margin targets, and challenges sales to provide rationale on quotes below company guidelines.
• Manages the pricing process within the Griffith Pricing Applications system and Microsoft D365 system with full responsibility for all sales analysis and data entry.
• Provides ad hoc sales information to internal and external customers.
• Assist in completion of monthly reports as required.
• Supports Client RFI, (Request for Information) and RFP's (Request for Price).
• Assists in preparing and executing mass price changes within urgent time frames as needed.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree (BA or BS) in finance, business administration or a related field from a four year college or university.
• 2+ years of related experience (Pricing / costing model building, sales and profitability tracking / reporting, forecasting / budgeting, and variance analysis).
• Advanced MS Excel usage including but not limited to VLOOKUP, pivot table usage and development, complex formula development, and Power BI.
• Experience with Microsoft D365 is preferred.

What We Offer(*) :

Paid top-up for pregnancy, parental and compassionate care leave.

Health and Group Benefits (100% of premiums paid by Griffith foods).

Education reimbursement program.

Life event recognition and on the job recognition.

Generous defined contribution retirement plan.

Career development and growth opportunities.

Annual wellness allowance.

Annual incentive.