Financial Analyst

Vantage is a fast-growing, leading global supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of consumer and industrial markets. Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our vertically integrated farming, manufacturing, and formulation facilities around the world, we are Enabling Tomorrow’s Solutions Today.

With more than 1,000 employees, $1+ billion in sales and a footprint in 13 countries around the world, Vantage is driven by an intense focus on our customers, providing a broad portfolio of customized solutions, formulations and ingredients that are tailored to meet their specific needs.

Under the leadership of Steve Doktycz, a 27-year chemical industry and strategic development veteran, its tenured leadership team represents decades of industry experience coupled with entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for natural chemistries. Vantage is headquartered in the United States (Deerfield, IL, a Chicago suburb).

Since its inception in 2008, Vantage’s continued growth has been realized through a combination of focused commercial efforts, significant capital investment into our manufacturing assets, strategic entry into geographic markets and niche acquisitions to develop our leading portfolio of natural-based specialty ingredients.
Vantage is backed by H.I.G., a leading global alternative investment firm with $43 billion of equity capital under management with a focus on the small and midcap segments of the market, with a minority investment by The Jordan Company.

Primary Objective
The Financial Analyst (FA) is a visible role that will be responsible for supporting day-to-day corporate finance activities as well as providing analysis to support management decisions. These finance activities include corporate business unit regional reporting, operational and direct cost analysis, monthly P&L forecasting, annual budgeting, and miscellaneous project work. This role will be comfortable and seasoned in collaboration, as will partner with senior leadership, commercial management, product management, supply chain and other cross-functional team members to deliver decision-making support for key deliverables and business initiatives. The position will report to Finance Manager LATAM

**Specific Responsibilities**:
1. Support development of annual budgets, strategic business plans and monthly forecasts including modeling, analysis and variance
2. Helps ensure the integrity and accuracy of global management reporting package as well as consistent BU/Regional reporting templates, driving uniform reviews
3. Supports and co-facilitates monthly review sessions with key business stakeholders to ensure integrity of all financial reporting and identification of financial risks and uncertainties. The FA will support these reviews by providing analytical reports, so they fully understand the monthly and YTD results, monthly trends and period over period variance analysis
4. Supports preparation of presentations for senior management team and assist Finance in the data gathering/view
5. Creates and advises on business-driven financial analyses, ensuring alignment with business strategies, priorities, and financial requirements, such as modeling the viability of new business efforts to include cost-benefit analyses, revenue alternatives, and costing scenarios based on the business leaders’ strategic direction and input
6. Provides financial consulting on key strategic initiatives and priorities to help the business units stay focused on achieving their strategic goals
7. Support understanding and use of metrics, scorecards and reporting for both corporate and field teams
8. Data Structure Support - help support any efforts to consolidate data centrally and ensure follows common structure for whole organization (ex: Sales Cube, Spend Cube, etc.)

Skill Requirements
1- BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 3 to 5 years of experience in financial analysis, financial/strategic planning, reporting or FP&A
- Prior experience with financial reporting systems and visualization tools, such as Epicor, SAP, Host Analytics and Power BI
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate analytical findings into actionable solutions and processes
- Proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook required; Advanced Microsoft Excel skills includes analytical modeling, robust chart prep and data mining for large data sets; Power Pivot experience is ideal (DAX)