Vice President of Finance, AgriBusiness- Boise, ID

The Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other enterprises related to agriculture.

Summary

This role will provide overall leadership for nancial reporting and forecasting for the business unit, ensuring reliable nancial information is available to help guide business decisions, assuring accurate and timely information are provided to corporate leadership, and serving as a liaison between group operations and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), for both domestic and international entities. Provide nancial guidance, expertise, and recommendations to Group Management for operational decisions and strategic planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership on nancial trends, forecasts and issues impacting the business; oer alternatives to assist business in strengthening nancial performance. Identify opportunities for improvements and cost savings. Direct and manage initiatives that allow the groups strategic plans to succeed. Provide analysis and counseling around business development including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
• Manage the group credit policies and procedures. Support standardization across the company credit function and coordinate with corporate-wide support services.
• Direct organizational change and process improvements at the group level to support the goals and objectives of the company's nance function and the group's strategic plan.
• Manage, develop and motivate group nance sta, including all group accounting and nancial business partnering sta to maintain acceptable performance levels and to develop individual potential.
• Actively participate as a member of the Simplot Company finance leadership team on topics including global talent strategies, JRS capital allocation, capital structure, and finance systems investments
• Direct the establishment and maintenance of accounting processes and systems that provide decision makers with reliable and useful accounting/nancial information to assist in guiding the business toward nancial performance. Ensure adequate internal controls are in place. Provide oversight of nancial planning, analysis and accounting for both domestic operations and existing Joint Ventures and International Subsidiaries in accordance with appropriate GAAP.
• Provide accurate and timely nancial reports and forecasts Corporate and Group management in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Analysis of the results that produces complete analysis and interpretation of operational goals and strategic objectives. Assist in achieving group goals by collecting, analyzing, utilizing key nancial, cost, and operational data including all key performance measurements.

Typical Education

Bachelors Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Relevant Experience

10+ years related experience and/or training

Other Information

Knowledge: Strong nancial and management accounting background; basic understanding of nancing structures; progressively increasing level of nance/cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment; broad base business orientation.

Skills: Strong analytical and nancial management skills; clear and eective written and oral commutation; customer focused; strong interpersonal skills; demonstrated management skills; ability to eectively inuence people at all levels of organization; high tolerance for change and uncertainty; understanding and support of ERP; and global awareness

Job Requisition ID: 26709

Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise

Country: United States

The Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.

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