Job Description

Perdue Farms is a family-owned food and agriculture company now in its second century of growth and innovation. We were founded on trust-a value that carries through everything we do. Perdue Foods is a leader in Premium Proteins and Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top US grain companies.

Summary

Our Corporate Finance team is growing! We are looking for Analytics Systems Development Manager skilled in data modeling for Analytics and familiar with Financial reporting. This position develops, enhances, and supports efforts related to business reporting and analytics. This role will lead the migration of the Perdue financial analytical platform from SAP BW & Oracle Essbase to Snowflake, Dataiku, and PowerBI. This position will play a lead technical role on the FP&A Financial Systems team to build data models, including data sources, transformations, and integrations, in the Perdue analytics toolset.

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads the design, development, and implementation of sophisticated analytics systems. Leads analytic projects involving Data Analysts, Business Users, I/T, and 3rd party resources as required.
• Works closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into system and modeling requirements. Understands data requirements, data sources, and proper structures to support development of analytics in a full life-cycle environment.
• Develops and implements analytical and predictive models to help discover various breakthrough opportunities from internal and external data and content sources.
• Support the creation of meaningful, digestible data visualizations to share findings, trends, and opportunities.
• Work closely with the Analytics Center of Excellence to implement best practices for analytics systems development.
• Ensure analytics systems are compliant with company policies, and the analytics and metadata catalog is maintained, organized, and meaningful.
• Provide or arrange training and knowledge transfer sessions with FP&A, Finance, and other Perdue analytics users to ensure an efficient and qualified user base in the use of Perdue Analytic tools, data models, and meta data.
• Prepare and present regular reports to senior management on the progress and status of analytics projects and systems.

Education and Experience Requirements

BS degree or equivalent work experience in Information Technology, Finance, Accounting or related discipline plus 10 years related work experience. Some minor travel to manufacturing plant sites or to attend training.

• An understanding of various data warehousing concepts including enterprise data, data staging, data transformation, and multidimensionality.
• High level understanding of SAP S/4 HANA FI module integration with other SAP business processes including: SD - Sales & Distribution, MM - Materials Management, CO - Product costing, PP - Production Planning, QM - Quality Management.
• Experience in building, implementing, supporting, and achieving user adoption of analytics and analytics applications
• Experience with Alteryx, Dataiku or similar ETL tools.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite including creation of Excel spreadsheets and MS PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience in project planning including creation of resourced project schedules with understanding of critical path planning.
• General transactional ERP datasources
• Strong systems solution and analytics and reporting skills.
• Strong business and technical leadership and facilitation skills.
• An understanding of finance and accounting processes for manufacturing companies.
• Good communication skills - verbal, written and presentation.
• Ability to resolve conflict.

Experience Preferred

MS degree is preferred. Experience in SAP ECC/HANA, Data modeling for analytics in a cloud environment. Project management skills including milestone setting, issues tracking, communicating status updates and experience in CPG, protein, or manufacturing industries is a plus.

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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