Best Food Services Looking for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager at Chicago, IL Full Time

Who We Are

Best Food Services is a leader in the Asian food service industry, bringing a diverse range of ethnic cuisines, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai, to the table. Our corporate headquarters in Chicago is where we house our fully integrated food processing, manufacturing, logistics, and worldwide supply chain services all under one roof. With distribution centers spanning the US, over 2 million square feet of warehousing space, and a fleet of more than 1,000 trucks, we’re the go-to when it comes to reliable delivery services.

At Best Food Services, we believe that teamwork and collaboration are the keys to success. We pride ourselves on maintaining the highest standards of integrity and honesty in everything we do and building strong relationships with our clients. We’re looking for individuals who share our values and are committed to excellence. Join our team and contribute to our culture of collaboration and integrity while growing your own skills and expertise. Together, we’ll deliver high-quality products and exceptional service to our clients and achieve great things.

What You’ll Do

As the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager, you will be responsible for delivering consolidated management reporting, financial analysis, and business insights to the leadership team. You will facilitate the end-to-end business and financial planning process and be responsible for driving deeper insights and support into financial, operational, and workforce related performance and decisions. You will be responsible for implementing and driving the core financial processes for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews, identifying and quantifying financial/operational risks and opportunities to the business, and driving ad-hoc business projects. To be successful in this role you will be a self-starter with a strong financial modeling background, problem solving skills, attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations, and solid skills in people management and thought leadership.

• Lead consolidated management reporting and analysis activities, including preparing, analyzing, interpreting data and trends.
• Manage planning process and build financial models and analytical toolsets for budgeting, forecasting, and driving performance.
• Develop and monitor key business performance metrics across the consolidated and individual business lines or entities.
• Provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management based on analysis for purposes of scenario analysis, business case analysis, return on investment, and regulatory/audit engagements.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes, strengthen internal controls and optimize data management.
• Coach operational leaders on systems and tools to develop a data driven decision making methodology.
• Along with Controllership and IT Applications, assist in optimizing cost centers, GL accounts, and channel hierarchies to best facilitate analysis and reporting.
• Coordinate internal audit across all operating companies with accounting and operations.
• Maintain BI data analytics to support pricing strategy, demand planning and forecasting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or related data analytics field.
• 5+ years of financial planning and business analysis experience required.
• Strong knowledge of planning and performance processes, including annual budget, monthly forecast, and periodic business reviews.
• Cost accounting background is highly preferred.
• Data modeling and analytical skills including utilization of BI tools for dashboard creation.
• Ability to follow through on issues, make informed decisions that comply with policies and procedures, complete tasks and problem-solve.
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with all levels within the organization.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, confidentiality.
• Fluency in Chinese/Mandarin will be helpful.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Term Life and AD&D insurance
• Short Term Disability insurance
• Paid time off (sick, vacation, holidays and bereavement)
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program

Job Type: Full-time

Physical setting:

• Office

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chicago, IL 60638: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person