Financial Analyst - Hybrid Remote (Atlanta, GA)

Reporting to the Director of Trade Finance, the incumbent will primarily support the Sales department to help them understand their financials and accruals. This person will perform and/or support analysis around customer profitability, promotional profitability, product line profitability, as well as be responsible for building and approving customer pricing and programs.

Candidates must reside in or around Atlanta, GA to be considered for this role.

Key Skills Required

• Proactivity and sense of urgency will be imperative to success
• Attention to detail and dedication to getting things right
• Strong organizational skills
• Maintain high level of organization, commitment to follow through, enthusiasm and motivation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Schedules and conducts monthly meetings with the Sales department to review their monthly financials.
• Assists in demand planning to support and ensure a forward looking forecast.
• Reviews Invoice to Net (I:N) spending and future spending vs budget and prior year and assists the sales reps in understanding how to improve.
• Supports the Sales department in ensuring that their I:N spend is accrued for appropriately and accurately.
• Supports the Sales department in identifying cost reductions and more profitable use of promotions.
• Assists in developing slides for the bi-monthly Business Review for the Sales department.
• Partners with the Business Insights & Analytics team to develop a full P&L view of the profitability of the promotions run in the prior month.
• Conducts various training exercises for the Sales, Business Insights & Analytics, and Marketing departments to ensure a comprehensive understanding of how their roles affect the company P&L.
• Guides Sales department through the budget process, assisting in their budget build at a customer level for the following year.
• Creates and sends monthly broker scorecard to Sales personnel to assist in the evaluation of the progress of the brokers.
• Reviews and approves check requests through Salesforce to ensure that customers are paid appropriately for promotions and rebates.
• Reviews financials/spend and retrieves signatures related to contracts with brokers, customers, and distributors.
• Compiles commissions owed to our brokers on a monthly basis.
• Creates and manages a Contract Tracker to ensure good visibility of the organization's contract liability for each customer.
• Partners with Accounts Receivables during the month-end process to log and accurately display the deductions that took place that month.
• Supports accuracy of customer pricing list by reviewing internal forecasting system and ensuring accuracy against orders received.
• Guides A/R and Deduction related to categorizing deductions.
• Generates process improvement initiatives within the Finance team, as needed.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, required.
• General understanding of GAAP and accepted auditing standards
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

About Us

good2grow® is a children's beverage company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Our mission is to use fun to help kids consume healthier products. And our commitment to this mission has made us a high-growth innovative beverage company, with a large, diverse, and ever-growing set of retail partners. We create better-for-you drinks that give both parents and kids a smile by combining great taste with tons of fun. We partner with some of the biggest names in entertainment including Disney, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, Hasbro and so many more to top our products with 100s of all of their favorite characters. Our line of products includes snacks, juices, flavored waters, and milks, so there's something to make everybody smile.

Why join us?

good2grow® offers a competitive benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with company match, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Short and Long Term Disability (along with salary continuation), a robust Parental Leave Policy, Life Insurance, 12 Paid Holidays, plus a generous Paid Time Off package. Through our community involvement and employee engagement initiatives, you will see that we value our employees' experience and the community around us. At good2grow®, you will be consistently challenged, and your opportunities will only be limited by your ambition!

Our Culture

Not only are our products fun, so is our organization! We are visionaries with a growth mindset, built on trust, integrity, and collaboration. Our culture is unmatched, described by our employees as transparent, flexible, inclusive, and team oriented. Other words we've heard used to describe us are empowering, nurturing, relaxed, and high performing. Our goal is for every employee to feel empowered, valued, and part of the good2grow family. Our organization is dedicated to leveraging technology to make our work more efficient and to keep our remote workforce connected. We place value on not only maintaining work-life balance, but also enhancing it by encouraging a culture that understands the importance of each individual's unique circumstances. We are an industrious organization with a penchant for fun!