NA Foods Customer Analytics - Associate Finance Manager

The Assistant Finance Manager – Customer Analytics will serve as a key finance partner supporting the Customer Development and Foods Business Unit by delivering strong financial analysis, disciplined Trade Terms Spend management, accurate forecasting, and customer-level profitability insights. The role will help steward trade investment end-to-end, support trade P&L forecasting, and provide clear visibility into business performance, risks, opportunities, and resource allocation choices.

This role partners closely with Customer Development, BU Category Leads, CS&P, CD Operations, and cross-functional teams to enable profitable growth, improve trade visibility, and strengthen financial controls across customers and categories.

• Trade Investment Decision Support
• Partner with BU Category Leads, CS&P, and Performance Portfolio Management to support trade investment decisions, scenario planning, ROI evaluations, and strategic guidance.
• Provide forward-looking insights into drivers of performance, risks and opportunities, and recommended interventions to improve business outcomes.
• Analyze trade effectiveness, promotional performance, customer investments, and ROI to guide where to prioritize resources across customers and categories.
• Trade Spend Management & Governance
• Support monthly management, forecasting, and reporting of Trade Terms Spend.
• Collaborate with CSP teams to review trade budgets, optimize spend, and track compliance to annual agreements.
• Partner with CBD teams through Pigment trade reconciliation, helping bridge discrepancies and provide clarity on trade over/under positions by account.
• Monitor trade investment performance and identify risks, opportunities, and commercial levers that may impact the total trade position.
• Forecasting, Reporting & Financial Control
• Prepare and support trade accruals, forecasts, and customer P&Ls.
• Support the trade forecasting and cash-up process in PBCS in partnership with CD Operations.
• Investigate variances, identify anomalies, and support month-end close activities.
• Maintain accurate financial reporting, strong data integrity, and audit-ready documentation for trade programs.
• Partner with CD Operations to ensure correct financial flow to EG and proper accounting treatment for trade programs.
• Business Partnering & Insights
• Provide actionable insights on sales, trade spend, customer profitability, volume forecasts, customer incentives, and commercial performance drivers.
• Support customer negotiations, promotional analyses, and business case development.
• Generate customer- and category-level analysis to help the BU understand performance drivers, shape category strategies, and make better trade allocation decisions.
• Build trusted partnerships with CBD, CS&P, Supply Chain, CD Operations, and BU stakeholders to support commercial decision-making.
• Continuous Improvement
• Support system evolution and process enhancements across Pigment, PBCS, and ways-of-working redesigns to improve accuracy, efficiency, and visibility.
• Drive reporting simplification, process improvements, and better trade transparency across Foods NA.
• Contribute to stronger forecasting accuracy, improved trade controls, and more effective business performance management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in Finance, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Customer Development Finance, or a related analytical finance role.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Advanced Excel proficiency; experience with planning, reporting, or analytics tools such as Evergreen, SASS, Pigment, PBCS, SAP, or Power BI preferred.

• Strong analytical rigor and…