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Job Overview

The Senior Financial Analyst will be a key resource in reporting and providing critical analyses of KDP’s financial performance for finance and executive leadership. In support of the Plains Midwest Region, you will collaborate with the business leaders, and finance teams across the Direct Store Delivery organization to analyze and communicate key drivers of the company’s financial results. This role requires an understanding of corporate finance, a strong analytical mindset, commitment to continuous improvement, and a keen interest in learning the DSD route to market. The successful candidate will demonstrate solid working knowledge of income and cash flow statements, as well as balance sheets.

*This is a hybrid role (3 days in office/2 days remote) based in our Distribution Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Relocation provided.

What you will do:

• Collaborate closely with the Region Finance team on General Ledger month end close, financial reporting, to ensure monthly P/L is fairly stated

• Provide financial guidance on actual results, operational processes, and financial planning

• Identify and evaluate opportunities for process improvement and standardization of key financial metrics for development of financial scorecards and dashboards

• Support Executive and Finance Leadership teams with monthly financial management through timely reporting, advanced analysis, and critical thinking

• Evaluate spend patterns versus historical norms, forecast plans, and competitive benchmarks to recommend sound business decisions and opportunities

• Partner with business, finance, and accounting teams to help analyze, align, and report the key business drivers

• Assess current and historical financial trends, and utilize various analysis techniques to gauge forecast and annual operating plan reasonableness

• Make recommendations to management based on in-depth knowledge of the analytics and financial acumen

• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and modeling

• Promote and communicate key elements of the various financial milestones across the organization

• Maintain relationships with stakeholders across the organization

• Interact with sales and operations teams to ensure spend accuracy and identify variances from Annual Operating Plan (AOP)

• Provide meaningful insight and recommendations to business partners and Region leadership

• Identify opportunities to improve productivity and processes to meet or exceed AOP

• Analyze top line growth and high impact Operating expenses to assist with actions to drive profit

  Budget/Forecasting/Action Planning:

• Perform budgeting and forecasting activities

• Support monthly financial close process, reviewing financial results and recommending necessary adjustments

• Assist with weekly/monthly projections as needed and present in real time actionable format

• Provide financial analysis and support for DSD Finance; develop and publish mission critical performance reports, and track financial performance against metrics and goals

Requirements

• BS/BA degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience required

• 2+ years experience financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and modeling required

• SAP, PowerPoint, Access experience, advanced Excel skills required (e.g., Pivot Tables, V&H Lookups, Ifs, Sums, Index, Match, VBA experience a plus)

• BI experience a plus (Planning Analytics, Micro-Strategy, SAP BW, etc.)

Company Overview

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a modern beverage company with a bold vision built to deliver growth and opportunity. We operate with a differentiated business model and world-class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values. We work with big, exciting beverage brands and the #1 single-serve coffee brewing system in North America at KDP, and we have fun doing it!

Together, we have built a leading beverage company in North America offering hot and cold beverages together at scale . Whatever your area of expertise, at KDP you can be a part of a team that’s proud of its brands, partnerships, innovation, and growth. Will you join us?

We strive to be an  employer of choice (https://careers.keurigdrpepper.com/) , providing a culture and opportunities that empower our team of 28,000 employees to grow and develop. We offer robust benefits to support your health and wellness as well as your personal and financial well-being. We also provide employee programs designed to enhance your professional growth and development, while ensuring you feel valued, inspired and appreciated at work.

Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.