Job Description

About Us

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Were a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. While Kraft Heinz is co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

We spark joy around mealtime with our iconic brands, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Heinz, Philadelphia, Lunchables, Velveeta, Planters, Maxwell House, Capri Sun, Ore-Ida, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Primal Kitchen, and Classico, among others.

No matter the brand, were united under one vision: To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life is our team of 39,000+ food lovers, creative thinkers, and high performers worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger. We also stand committed to responsible, sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, were transforming the food industry with bold thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen theres only one thing to do: join our table and lets make life delicious!

Our Culture of Ownership, Meritocracy & Collaboration

We're not afraid to think differently. Embrace new ideas. Dream big. We empower our people at every level from entry-level intern to senior leader to own their work. We share a responsibility to think like Owners to be mindful of the collective and sustained success of Kraft Heinz which we apply to every situation, every day. As part of Kraft Heinz, you're supported to grow and achieve. Youre expected to bring your authentic self to work every day, to lead with humility, and drive outstanding performance at every level and youll be rewarded. Youre given opportunities to leave a mark and build a legacy. But you wont do it alone. Youre supported by passionate teammates along the way, and our collective, collaborative spirit fuels our incredible progress.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

* Define and implement value added financial reporting processes for the actual, forecasting and budgeting work streams
* Establish and maintain advanced analytics that enable deeper understanding and insight into procurement performance
* Providing input to the development of long-range financial forecasts and related budgets, considering alternative scenarios and economic prospects as appropriate
* Partnering with functional teams to integrate budgets and forecasts into business review
* Driving forecast accuracy improvement process leveraging available data.
* Proposing improvements to systems and methods of work and analysis, and contributing to ensuring that they are continuously adapted to business requirements
* Creating financial models and implementing supporting tools
* Gathering market data to analyze trends and benchmarks
* Participating in the annual budget process and monthly forecast process
* Leading analytical projects to identify potential savings, partners with package owners and logistics leads to deliver savings for the U.S. indirect procurement teams
* Manage the ZBB reporting processes and reporting package.
* Leading training and change management initiatives across the organization for ZBB initiatives
* Improve Procurement Finance capabilities in order to improve value to wider organization
* Identify opportunities to improve Procurement processes, procedures, organization structure and make recommendations to Head of Procurement Finance
* Manage all strategy on payables improvement
* Responsible for tracking the payables plan, explain variance vs budget and plan

Minimum Qualifications

* BS in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration required
* Minimum of 4 years of experience in Finance/Accounting, FP&A, Supply Chain Finance and evidence of analytical mindset preferred
* Highly developed excel and systems expertise, SAP experience strongly preferred
* Conversant in data manipulation tools and language
* Strong business acumen, interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
* Motivated self-starter who can effectively work under pressure and manage multiple priorities
* Team player who manages collaboratively with the ability to influence management, in some cases without authority
* Exhibits strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills

Location(s)

Chicago/Aon Center

Equal Opportunity Employerminorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity