FP&A Manager, Commercial; Hybrid

Position: FP&A Manager, Commercial (Hybrid)
The FP&A Manager, Commercial, serves as the dedicated Finance business partner to Emerging Nutrition and a key Finance partner across the broader Ardent Mills Commercial organization. This role independently owns significant Finance business partnerships and provides end-to-end financial support and ownership across the Emerging Nutrition P&L, while partnering with Commercial leaders across Sales, Marketing, R&D, Strategic Pricing, and other functions.

Exercising substantial independent judgment, this role advises business leaders and provides financial planning, performance management, business analysis, and decision support to evaluate opportunities, improve financial outcomes, and advance strategic priorities. Owns building concise executive narratives that integrate performance, outlook, risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and a clear call to action. As a member of the Emerging Nutrition leadership team, the FP&A Manager, Commercial, plays an integral role in helping Emerging Nutrition and the broader Commercial organization achieve their financial and strategic objectives.

Drive financial performance across supported businesses and functions by anticipating needs, identifying risks and opportunities, and translating financial insights into actionable recommendations.

Strengthen financial acumen across partner teams by connecting operational and commercial decisions to financial outcomes and aligning business assumptions, actions, and expected results.

Drive cross-functional alignment and resolve conflicting assumptions or priorities across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, and Finance.

Develop financial models and business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives, new product launches and innovations, customer opportunities, pricing decisions, capital investments, acquisitions, and other growth opportunities.

Perform cost/benefit, capitalization, scenario, and return analyses; support CIRs and deal modeling; and track performance and value realization against approved business cases and assumptions.

Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management for Emerging Nutrition, while supporting planning and forecasting needs across assigned Commercial functions.

Develop financial models incorporating key business drivers and scenarios, including volume, pricing, contribution margin, customer/product profitability, market share, new products, SG&A, headcount, working capital, and other relevant value drivers.

Ownership of actual and forecast performance against financial objectives, plans, prior forecasts, and strategic targets; identify performance gaps, headwinds/tailwinds, root causes, and key drivers.

Partner with leaders to develop actionable plans to close performance gaps and capture opportunities, clearly defining financial impact, key levers, timing, ownership, and expected results.

Provide timely management reporting, financial analysis, and decision support that enables leaders to understand performance, evaluate risks and opportunities, and make informed business decisions.

Define and monitor meaningful KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards; analyze revenue, margins, customer/product profitability, pricing and price realization, market trends, commercial deal economics, and other key performance drivers.

Partner across FP&A and Finance functions, Commercial, Operations & Supply Chain, and other functions to deliver integrated financial support and continuously improve reporting, forecasting, analytics, data, tools, and decision-support processes.

Provide predictive analytics, data-modeling fluency, common data definitions, and partnership on self-service analytics and automation.

Education Bachelor's Degree OR equivalent experience MBA, CMA, FPAC, FPAP, or other relevant advanced credential/certification preferred.

Experience8+ years of relevant experience

Progressive Finance & Accounting experience, including financial planning, business analysis, management reporting, or Finance business partnering. Demonstrated experience supporting a business unit, P&L, or commercial organization and partnering directly with business leaders to drive financial performance and decision-making. Experience developing financial models, forecasts, business cases, scenario analyses, and investment evaluations to support strategic and operational decisions.

Experience with commercial financial analysis—including pricing, margin, customer/product profitability, new product/business cases, or related areas is…