Job Description:

Overview:

Our mission as a Finance organization is to lead General Mills in creating strategies that maximize shareholder value, while flawlessly executing our fiduciary responsibility. As a Financial Analyst, you will be an integral part of the General Mills team and are expected to contribute your ideas and suggestions from day one.

You’ll discover a broad range of opportunities in Finance across the organization. You’ll work with the industry’s most successful brand names. As a Financial Analyst, you will be a member of a team tasked with building business partnerships and leveraging your financial acumen to drive business results. This posting is for the Brands Finance team, but your General Mills career can take you many places:

Strategic Revenue Management Finance

Sales Finance

Supply Chain Finance

Planning and Analysis

Cross Functional Rotations

Development:

General Mills provides outstanding hands-on learning in all facets of our business and extraordinary personal and professional development and training opportunities. The General Mills Finance organization is committed to developing future leaders and preparing you for responsibilities beyond your initial role by offering a wide variety of development and training opportunities.

Brands Finance Analyst Responsibilities:

You will work closely with a team of Brand Managers to help deliver organizational goals by executing the following activities:

Apply financial acumen and technical understanding to provide insights on portfolio profitability, and brands P&L drivers

Analyze new product launch financials and feasibility and present to various levels of the organization including senior leadership

Conduct financial and business analysis to generate insights that influence cross-functional decision-making and shareholder value

Leverage data and information systems to forecast performance and articulate key drivers of change

Lead and execute effective and efficient financial processes

Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will possess strong business and financial acumen and will be able to demonstrate their ability to consistently deliver outstanding results. Specifically, strong candidates will possess and display:

BA, BBA, HBA, BCOMM or MBA degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

Applied technical/financial expertise

Strong business partnership skills

Demonstrated superior performance

A practical and creative approach to problem solving

Ability to understand, analyze and communicate financial reports

Demonstrated leadership and the ability to influence

Ability to create and follow a process

A broad business perspective

Commitment to self-development and the development of others

General Mills is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.