Sr Finance Analyst-Commercial Planning Sales

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. 

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

The Commercial Planning Sales/Finance Analyst is responsible for providing financial and commercial analysis, planning, forecasting, reporting, and business insights that support sales and commercial decision-making. This role partners closely with Sales, Finance, Marketing, Revenue Management, and Supply Chain to analyze business performance, identify opportunities and risks, and translate data into actionable recommendations.
The ideal candidate has strong analytical and financial skills, a solid understanding of the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, and experience working with large, complex data sets. The candidate should be highly proficient in SAP/BPC, Analysis for Office (AFO), and Power BI and comfortable communicating results and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders.

Job Description

Success in This Role

Success in this position will be demonstrated by the ability to turn complex sales and financial data into clear business insights, improve forecasting and reporting accuracy, identify commercial opportunities and risks, and provide actionable recommendations that help Sales and Finance leaders make informed decisions.

The ideal candidate is analytical, commercially minded, highly detail-oriented, technology-savvy, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Planning & Forecasting

• Support the development of annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, prior year, and plan assumptions.
• Identify key business drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities impacting sales and profitability..
• Support commercial planning cycles.

Sales & Financial Analysis

• Analyze sales performance by customer, channel, product, brand, region, and/or market.
• Identify sales and financial trends and communicate key findings to leadership.
• Develop variance analysis and provide explanations for significant changes in performance.
• Support customer and account-level profitability analysis.

Reporting & Business Intelligence

• Develop and maintain recurring financial and commercial reporting.
• Create dashboards and visualizations using Power BI to communicate business performance and trends.
• Utilize SAP to retrieve, validate, and analyze financial and sales data.
• Leverage SAP Analysis for Office (AFO) for reporting, analysis, planning, and data extraction.
• Improve reporting processes through automation, standardization, and enhanced data visualization.
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across reporting platforms.

Business Partnership

• Partner with Sales, Finance, Marketing, Revenue Management, and Supply Chain to support business decisions.
• Translate complex financial and commercial data into clear, actionable insights.
• Prepare presentations and executive-level reporting for business reviews.
• Serve as an analytical resource for commercial teams.
• Support ad hoc analysis and special projects as needed

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis, commercial finance, sales analytics, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong experience with SAP and SAP Analysis for Office (AFO).
• Strong experience developing reports and dashboards using Microsoft Power BI.
• Ability to analyze large data sets and identify meaningful business insights.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Sales, Commercial Planning, Revenue Growth Management, or Commercial Finance.
• Understanding of CPG commercial concepts including:
• Revenue and net sales
• Volume and price/mix
• Gross-to-net
• Gross margin
• Customer profitability
• Pricing
• Promotional effectiveness
• Sales forecasting
• Distribution and channel performance
• Experience working with large customer and SKU/product-level data sets.
• Experience with SAP BW, SAP Analytics Cloud, or related SAP reporting environments.
• Experience integrating multiple data sources into Power BI.
• Experience with financial planning and forecasting systems.
• Core Competencies
• Commercial Acumen
• Financial Analysis
• Data & Analytics
• Forecasting & Planning
• Problem Solving
• Business Partnership
• Communication & Presentation
• Attention to Detail
• Process Improvement
• Strategic Thinking
• Technology Skills
• Required / Strong:
• SAP
• Microsoft Power BI
• Microsoft Excel – Advanced
• Preferred:
• SAP BW / SAP Analytics Cloud
• SQL
• Other business intelligence and financial planning tools

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Anticipated Close Date

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.Anticipated Close Date: 01/03/2027

Pay Transparency

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.Pay Rate or Range: $86,380.00 - $129,570.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law