Dir Of Financial Planning & Analysis

Summary

As the Director of FP&A at Pacific Seafood, you will be responsible for providing management with timely, accurate and action-oriented reporting. You will oversee a team of analysts and leverage cross-functional relationships to unify reporting and analysis along the entire vertical chain. You and your team will be responsible for rapid implementation, hands-on training, and accountability metrics for new operational initiatives. You will direct the use and interpretation of financial information across the company and partner with operational leadership to increase overall financial literacy within the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include but not limited to:

• Be a role model in projecting and applying The Pacific Group Diamond Philosophy (Productivity, Quality, Excellence, and Teamwork), Passionate Performance, and promote teamwork at all times.

• Enforce Pacific Seafood's accounting policy while driving the implementation, application, and continual improvement of financial and accounting processes and procedures.

• Perform a thorough review of financial statements and related information to ensure information is accurate and submitted timely.

• Monitor, analyze, and control operating performances. Determine and drive change in the organization to optimize efficiency and profitability.

• Manage the budgeting process for the entire vertical chain, including 13-week rolling cash flows, evaluation of company performance via budget to actual analysis, use of comparative data, and evaluation of operating ratios/statistics, all while ensuring integration and alignment with the Strategic Plan.

• Partner with IT to direct the development, validation, and utilization of dashboard/automated reporting to eliminate duplicative and/or unnecessary reporting and provide final approval/oversight on any new proposed reports, dashboards, and metrics.

• Conduct in-depth analysis of financial results to ensure optimal utility, cross-comparability, and to direct the formatting of content in reports/dashboards provided to the Board, CEO, CFO, COO, other senior managers, and Lenders.

• Act as a key member of the ERP Implementation Team to direct, prepare, and continually update module development that is relevant to management and forecast reporting whenever significant changes in sales, operations, inventory, and business plan elements occur.

• Manage communication between sales, operational, and support leadership to maximize the accuracy of forecasts and budget to actual reports, identify margin/profit opportunities, and provide timely accountability metrics for their respective teams.

• Work with Controllers as a liaison between finance management team and locations to communicate information, updates, projects, and initiatives effectively, timely and accurately.

• Partner with controller team to provide analysis and reporting necessary for the monthly and/or quarterly evaluation of Accruals, Reserves, and Fair Value.

• Partner with operational leaders to rapidly implement new initiatives, create simplified resources and tools which align daily operational direction with overall strategic vision, and provide hands-on training for team members at all levels.

• Be responsive to changes in project priorities.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to successfully perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting

• Minimum six years related experience.

• Strong knowledge of GAAP and FASB codification

• Experience in managing teams

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

• CPA or CMA Preferred

• Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

• Ability to travel up to 50% during peak seasons or as needed to work with operators and conduct analysis and training.

• Strong Computer skills in MS Office Word and Excel.

Core Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

Critical Thinking - using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Ethics

• Works with integrity and ethically; upholds organizational values.

Quality

• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Monitors own work to ensure quality. Safety and Security

• Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions.

Accountability

• Establishes clear goals and outcomes; timely follow up and follow through on commitments/agreements; Monitors performance and commitments regularly; Implements recovery plans and improvements to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved.

Problem Solving

• Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions. Involves others impacted by the problem or solution in the problem-solving process.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is:

• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.

• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

• Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the team member is exposed to:

• Wet, cold and/or humid temperatures.

• Occasional work in extreme cold conditions.

• Work around standard office and PC equipment.

• Loud noise on production floor.

• Occasional work in office environment.

Total Compensation

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. When you add in the additional benefits below to our competitive base wage you can increase your total compensation up to 25%.

• Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short term disability.

• Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses

• 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match

• Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include paid sick, vacation and personal time

• 6 paid holidays

• Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members

• Product purchase program