Senior FP&A Analyst - Risk

The Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, serves as the primary finance point of contact to the Risk Team, connecting commodity market activity, derivative performance, and business strategy to financial outcomes. The Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, owns planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and management reporting to strengthen visibility into commodity revenue and key financial risks. This role translates complex market inputs, derivative contract economics, and operational drivers into clear insights, scenarios, and recommendations that help FP&A leaders anticipate challenges and capture opportunities. This role will build concise executive summaries that connect enterprise results, outlook, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions. Through forward-looking analytics, process improvement, and strong financial stewardship, the Sr. FP&A Analyst, Risk, improves forecast accuracy, reduces surprises, and supports achievement of enterprise financial objectives.

• Serve as the primary FP&A business partner to the Risk Team, driving the function’s financial performance, anticipating business trends, and coordinating priorities across FP&A and key stakeholders.
• Lead annual operating plans, budgets, periodic forecasts, and the weekly commodity risk forecasting cadence across multiple entities, covering the commodity revenue P&L, balance sheet, volumes, and working capital.
• Translate enterprise objectives into functional targets, strategies, and tactical plans; model key business drivers and what-if scenarios involving markets, pricing, counterparty exposure, working capital analysis, and risk mitigation.
• Monitor performance against plans, forecasts, and KPIs; identify headwinds, tailwinds, root causes, and value levers, and support leadership to develop actions to meet company’s objectives.
• Coordinate and lead commodity revenue month-end close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, and review of material derivative items, while clearly explaining volatility and mark-to-market swings.
• Own derivative analytics and reporting for feed, flour, and grain, including contract lifecycle trends, exceptions, counterparty exposure, and FX exposure imbedded in mark-to-market.
• Ensure P&L integrity and clarity through analytical review of net margin, wheat usage, inbound freight, plant P&Ls, and other significant financial components.
• Provide decision support vis-a-vis derivative contract economics, working capital needs; prepare business cases and assessments and evaluate results against assumptions.
• Develop scorecards, dashboards, benchmarking, board materials, and concise executive commentary that translate derivative, market, and operational drivers into actionable insights for leadership.
• Partner with Finance stakeholders, FP&A leadership, IT, continuous-improvement teams, and subject-matter experts to align data definitions, reporting standards, and planning assumptions; resolve data gaps; support audits; conduct sensitivity analysis and forecast-accuracy measurement; and recommend improvements that strengthen financial reporting outcomes, governance, planning quality, and speed.
• Facilitate alignment across corporate functions, surface conflicting assumptions, and influence action without formal authority.
• Advance forward-looking reporting, workflows, data quality, predictive analytics, data modeling, data stewardship, and standard definitions while identifying automation and AI-enabled opportunities that reduce manual effort and improve the availability and usefulness of decision-ready information.
• Translate enterprise strategy into functional financial targets, choices, and measurable outcomes.
• Responsible to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and sustained use of new tools, processes, and reporting standards.
• Challenge assumptions constructively and connect risk choices to enterprise profitability, liquidity, working capital, and strategic outcomes.
• Build financial acumen across partner teams by coaching leaders on the financial implications of operational decisions, aligning business assumptions, actions, and expected outcomes, and driving stakeholder readiness, adoption, controls, and sustained use of new risk reporting, analytics, and workflows.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree OR equivalent experience.
• CMA or CFA certifications preferred.

Experience

• 6+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in financial analysis, including planning/forecasting, financial analysis involving commodities, financial derivatives, G/L, and mark-to-market accounting.
• Demonstrated experience with financial modeling, what-if scenarios, ad-hoc analysis, and process improvement. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong understanding of financial statements, business drivers, and the financial implications of commercial and operational decisions.

• Strong capabilities in financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the ability to work effectively with financial systems, planning platforms, business intelligence tools, and complex data sets.

• Ability to evaluate assumptions, identify trends and root causes, assess risks and opportunities, and develop practical recommendations.

• Ability to build credibility with stakeholders, ask effective questions, constructively challenge assumptions, and support decisions with objective financial analysis.

• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex financial concepts clearly to financial and non-financial audiences.

• Demonstrated attention to detail and commitment to data integrity, sound financial controls, and high-quality analytical outputs.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver accurate work in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

• Ability to work effectively across functions and contribute to improvements in reporting, planning, data, tools, and Finance processes.

• Ability to quickly develop knowledge of the business, industry, systems, and evolving FP&A practices.

Language

Travel

 Less than 5% travel required.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

Location:

Denver CO

Address:

1875 Lawrence Street, Denver CO, 80202

Additional Locations (if applicable):

Employment Type:

Full time

Additional Information:

Competitive Compensation:

We provide market-driven base pay, based on skills, abilities, and level of experiences. Our salary ranges are broad, and individual salary will be market competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of skills and level of experience. The starting range for this position is $107,700.00 - $129,400.00, with additional earning potential possible commensurate with experience. Additionally, we believe that our team members are the reason for our success and all team members are incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and individual results achieved. While the specific bonus plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions, the targeted bonus plan and targeted percentage amount for this role is Bonus - MIP, 10% Annual.

Benefits:

At Ardent Mills we offer a wide range of benefits to our team members and their eligible family members. Some of our great benefit programs you may be eligible for include: • Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage• Health and Dependent Savings Accounts • Life and Disability Programs • Voluntary Benefit Programs • Company Sponsored Wellness Programs • Retirement Savings with Company Match • Team Member and Family Assistance Program (EAP) • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays • Employee Recognition Program with Rewards (RAVE).

Application Deadline:

12/22/202612/22/2026

EEO Commitment:

At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills. The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.En Ardent Mills, todos importan y todos tienen voz. Estamos comprometidos a brindar un ambiente de respeto mutuo donde haya igualdad de oportunidades disponibles para todos los solicitantes y miembros del equipo y las decisiones se basarán en el mérito, la competencia, el desempeño y las necesidades comerciales. Estamos orgullosos de ser un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. No discriminamos por motivos de raza, color, religión, credo, origen nacional, ascendencia, estado civil, sexo, orientación sexual, identidad o expresión de género, discapacidad física o mental, embarazo, información genética, condición de veterano, edad, política. afiliación, o cualquier otra característica no meritoria protegida por ley o no. Juntos, celebrando nuestras diferencias, formamos Ardent Mills. La descripción del puesto anterior ha sido diseñada para indicar la naturaleza general y los deberes y responsabilidades esenciales del trabajo realizado por los empleados dentro de este puesto. Es posible que no contenga un inventario completo de todos los deberes, responsabilidades y calificaciones requeridas de los empleados en este puesto. La descripción, los deberes, las funciones y las responsabilidades están sujetos a cambios a discreción de Ardent Mills.

Role Designation

Ardent Mills is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. This role follows a hybrid work arrangement and will be based in the assigned work location. The successful candidate will be expected to work in person from their assigned office location two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday), except when traveling for business. 

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