Title: Sales Excellence Accruals & Settlements Analyst

               

Location: Statewide Multi Use, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

The Sales Excellence Accruals & Settlements Analyst directly supports the Sales Excellence, Billing and Settlement teams in resolution of accruals and claim settlement resolution. They are responsible for timely validation and accurate resolution of accruals in SAP and TPM based on promotion processing proactively and daily. They are also responsible for timely validation and accurate reconciliation of settled and open claims in Lamb Weston’s SAP system landscape (S/4, TPM, and ITCM) based on established sales contracts and in alignment with department SOX controls.

In this role you will support all business units and departments enterprise wide overseeing all claims and accruals in TPM, ITCM, and S/4. You’ll be responsible for monitoring these systems to ensure they’re in sync.

Job Description

Position Responsibilities:

• Review accrual amounts and validate the net billing amounts of billing documents for condition contracts.
• Correct delta accrual settlement data to align with contract creation information.
• Verify and update promotion release information in TPM and condition contract data in S/4.
• Analyze discrepancies between Salesforce and TPM via exception reporting for SOX controls.
• Proactively run delta accruals in SAP S/4 based on the appropriate condition contract.
• Review expired promotions and run final settlements, updating promotion statuses.
• Verify and update condition contract information to execute condition contracts with promotion accruals to create a credit memo for the accrual amount.
• Follow SOX audit compliance to ensure accuracy when reviewing, processing, and exercising independent decisions on matters that affect the business.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to provide timely resolution and clarifications related to promotions and accruals. Cross functional coordination with Commercial Finance, Settlements, and other stakeholders.
• Run daily extract of TPM settlements that were released and compare to S/4 to ensure settlement for full dollar amount posted.
• Adhere to KPIs for claim reconciliation. Expectation is to reconcile all claims timely before month end report outs.​
• Validate trade/rebate claims in SAP TPM against valid contracts and promotions in Salesforce.
• Review and resolve exception reporting for Salesforce download and ITCM/TPM system errors in compliance with SOX controls.
• Adhere to KPIs for claim reconciliation. Expectation is to reconcile all claims timely before month end report outs.

Skills Required

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Excel (v-lookups, pivot tables, etc)
• Strong business acumen and excellent judgement, data driven decision making and strategic problem solver.
• Salesforce/TPM/SAP experience
• Process mapping experience is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal skills.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Language Skills                                                                       

• Ability to read, write and speak in English required.

Travel

• As required

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Skills Required

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Excel (v-lookups, pivot tables, etc)
• Strong business acumen and excellent judgement, data driven decision making and strategic problem solver.
• Salesforce/TPM/SAP experience
• Process mapping experience is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal skills.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Language Skills                                                                       

• Ability to read, write and speak in English required.

Travel

• As required

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.

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-255508

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 10/14/2024

               

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 based on the variables previously mentioned is: $61,320.00 - $91,990.00

               

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