Budget Analyst, Commercial

Ocean Spray is hiring for a(n) Budget Analyst, Commercial! We’re a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role — it always comes back to this: we’re a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all — and we’ve been making our own way ever since.

Ocean Spray Cranberries is looking for a Budget Analyst to join our USA Commercial team! In this role, you will manage the financial aspects and budgeting for the assigned department. You will be responsible for preparing, analyzing, and monitoring budgets, ensuring adherence to financial objectives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather relevant data, provide budget updates to leadership, and provide recommendations for optimizing budget utilization.

A Day in the Life...

• Functional Budget Administration: Overall management of functional budget, this involves working across business units and finance to ensure the budget, invoices and variances are understood and proactively addressed.
• Utilize forecasting templates, ensure budget is maintained.
• Manage preparation of monthly meetings & cadence including reconciliation of variances, coordinating updates and summary of changes.
• Reconciliation of accruals once invoices post and actualize and update offline trackers, as well as, any current or future systems.
• Tracking all invoices from point of submission to payment, including tracking down when invoices do not appropriately appear in AP applications and ensuring correct budget assignments; Working with accounting (outsourced) and gaining knowledge of the tools i.e. Readsoft, Ivalua, etc.
• Manage P-Card process to code and track all transactions.
• Maintain functional systems to ensure data is updated and user-ready.
• Develop strong knowledge of system(s) functionality and capabilities to assist, and troubleshoot with, users.
• New Program User training and documentation.
• Presenting quarterly/annual budget updates to various audiences as needed.
• Collaborating with functional leads, cross-functional partners, including Finance, to ensure planned budget spend is up-to-date and accurate.
• Working cross-functionally to manage and coordinate the routing, approval and communication of invoices, miscellaneous expenses, and other various technical documents.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Proficient in MS Office
• System experience (e.g. TraceGains, Sharepoint, SAP, or other ERP systems)
• Some Technical Acumen
• Budget management
• Comfortable working with individuals and across business teams to accomplish tasks
• Time management, can manage their time effectively to hit monthly, quarterly and annual schedules
• Ability to work across external vendors to ensure invoices, payments and contracts are executed correctly
• Detail oriented, this role will require a focus on details, meeting timelines and budget tracking
• Developing and presenting insightful and actionable status reports to multiple levels of organization
  
  

Education

Associates Degree (Required)

Work Experience

At least 1 Year of Experience

Benefits

• Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Telehealth services
• Fertility benefits
• Transgender benefits
• 1:1 health coaching and more
• 401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end
• Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses
• Flexible scheduling options
• Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of employment)
• Holiday pay for 12 holidays
• Career development and growth opportunities
• Tuition/Education assistance programs
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Scholarship programs for children of employees
• Parental leave
• Bright Horizons Family Solutions – Back-up care, tutoring, etc.
• Adoption assistance
• Bereavement leave
• Up to $300 fitness reimbursement
• Up to $300 massage reimbursement
• Employee appreciation events
• Employee discounts
• Charitable giving
  

Who We Are

You might have our iconic cranberry juice in your fridge or have gotten into heated holiday debate about what’s better - canned or fresh cranberry sauce. But did you know that the hardworking people growing the superfruit in our products are 700 family farmers that own our cooperative? They entrust us with what is most precious to them to create new and innovative products that will delight consumers and grow this beloved brand today and into the future.

Team Members, Farmers, Consumers And Communities Alike--we Value What Makes Us Unique And Strive To Connect Our Farms To Families For a Better Life By Living Our Values

• Grower Mindset – We embrace our grower-owners innovative spirit and heritage through confidence, learning and focus on the future.
• Sustainable Results – Guided by purpose, we are focused on delivering results for our grower-owners.
• Integrity Above All – We are ethical, doing the right thing for our grower-owners, customers, consumers and each other
• Inclusive Teamwork – We build diverse and inclusive teams that strengthen our cooperative.
  
  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.