Commercial Finance Manager

Full-time - Mid Level

Ontario, CA

Food Manufacturing

About the position

The Commercial Finance manager is a critical business partner to the Consumer-Packaged Goods organization. The finance manager works cross-functionally with other finance and operations teams, Strategic Business Unit (SBU's) to develop powerful insights, market assessments and deliver financial targets on sales, product P&L and R&D for new products.

Responsibilities

• Provides lead financial support to the Consumer-Packaged Goods team on S&OP, enhancing the S&OP discussion to discuss both volume and margins
• Responsible for providing monthly results analysis on volumes and revenue with a deep dive into root causes and variance vs. PY, Budget and Forecast
• Provides financial support to the Consumer-Packaged Goods team during the annual budget exercise
• Support the monthly Risk and Opportunities update, actively indicating the future action plans to mitigate risks while optimizing opportunities by highlighting the financial implications
• Monitor and analyze the spending to support sales, including but not limited to Promotions, Coupons, Demos and Marketing events
• Understand manufacturing and supply chain cost structure to improve cost and recommend portfolio changes
• Understand industry key drivers and trends that influence the company's competitive position and conduct comparable company analysis
• Drive standardization on reports and leverage further standardized PowerBI reports
• Assist in Standardization of performance metrics and perform benchmarking and root-cause analyses
• Develop meaningful SG&A reports for the Consumer Packaged Goods organization to proactively manage their spending
• Support developing financial models for new businesses (customers, channels, products)
• Support Consumer Packaged Goods organization in anchoring/tracking strategic plans supporting long term goals
• Participate in key technology and kaizen initiatives as needed
• Ad-hoc requests from Consumer Packaged Goods team & Director

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA strongly preferred
• 5+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in the Food industry or consumer packaged goods
• Strong analytical, systems and communications skills
• Proven leadership experience
• Ability to work in a fast-paced growth environment with an appropriate balance of urgency and quality
• Broad business experience on P&L
• Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to interact with Business Unit executives in a professional manner
• Knowledge of cost accounting and manufacturing processes
• Must be a team player with initiative, passion and a demonstrated ability to drive profit improvement initiatives
• Exercises considerable discretion and independent judgment and handles confidential information
• Highly proficient in PowerPoint and Excel