Financial Analyst Revenue Management

For 75 years, Bob Evans Farms has delivered delicious, quick-to-table, farm-inspired food that makes mealtime a little bit easier and a lot more delicious. We’re proud to be the #1-selling refrigerated dinner sides, including many varieties of feel-good favorites such as mashed potatoes and macaroni & cheese. We’re also a leading producer and distributor of sausage and bacon products, potato products, and egg products including liquid eggs. Our brand portfolio includes Bob Evans, Simply Potatoes, Egg Beaters and Owens Sausage. Bob Evans Farms is based in Columbus, Ohio.

In September of 2017, Bob Evans Farms was acquired by Post Holdings, Inc. and is part of the Refrigerated Retail division.Other divisions of Post include Post Consumer Brands (Cereal), Weetabix (Cereal – UK), Michael Foods (Foodservice), and 8th Avenue Food & Provisions (Private Label).Post has aggressive growth plans for BEF, highlighted by the recent deployment of capital to support innovation, marketing and manufacturing.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Financial Analyst of Revenue Management will support the optimization of key Revenue Management processes and plans, working closely with field sales, product sales, and marketing teams. The Financial Analyst will play a critical role in providing financial oversight to ensure delivery of overall net price objectives across key categories and customers.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Ensure pricing compliance and data integrity by managing back-end trade governance, including system entry and maintenance
• Provide daily support to sales teams to ensure accuracy of trade spend entry
• Own weekly and monthly reporting, scorecards, and performance analyses, ensure timely and accurate updates
• Conduct post-promotion audits to assess trade spend ROI and effectiveness; make recommendations to course correct margin dilutive events
• Stand up AI driven analysis by contributing to business rule development & ensuring accuracy of data inputs; derive insights from output to drive meaningful change to promotional cadence
• Assist in pricing strategy for new products, pack sizes, and channel entries
• Analyze category trends and competitor activity using syndicated data to generate margin-improving insights; support ad hoc cross-functional requests
• Facilitate the review and approval of price investment requests to ensure compliance with trade spend guidelines and appropriate levels of ROI
• Provide daily support to sales teams and partner with trade marketing teams on various projects

• Bachelor’s Degree required (Finance or Business Administration preferred)
• 1-3 years Finance experience
• Experience/Background in Data Science or Business Analytics strongly preferred
• Comfortable with large data sets & statistics, including but not limited to correlation analysis (single and multi-variable regression)
• Familiarity with integrating large data sets across multiple platforms; must have strong data governance
• High level of proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel with the ability to quickly learn various in-house software applications (i.e. IRI, Tableau, Oracle Demantra)
• Demonstrated analytical skills including ability to assemble information, extract pertinent facts, draw conclusions, and present recommendations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interacting with various levels of the organization
• Results-oriented with ability to initiate and lead projects to completion
• Ability to perform analysis of business information and identify trends
• Innovative thinker with a focus on continuous process improvement
• Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines
• High level of attention to detail to ensure accuracy of analyses and business reporting