Associate Finance Manager

Associate Finance Manager

Ocean Spray is hiring for an Associate Finance Manager! We're a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role - it always comes back to this: we're a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all - and we've been making our own way ever since.

Ocean Spray is looking for a new Associate Finance Manager to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating and consolidating financial results across multiple business units, ensuring timely and accurate reporting, and supporting key planning and forecasting activities. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial processes, systems, and controls, with a focus on improving efficiency and accuracy in consolidated reporting.

You will act as a trusted and valuable business partner to cross functional teams. You will identify issues and work to provide solutions to support the entire organization by leveraging resources and driving projects to resolution. You will be highly engaged and provide facts to support decision making and influence the right outcome.

This will be a hybrid role based out of our corporate headquarters in Lakeville, MA, or our Boston office, with Mondays & Fridays remote.

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial consolidation process across multiple business units
• Coordinate with Operations finance team across business units to gather, validate, and consolidate financial data
• Support the development of consolidated budgets and forecasts, including variance analysis and commentary
• Partner with FP&A team to ensure consistency and alignment in reporting
• Assist in driving process improvements and standardization in consolidation practices
• Prepare and review consolidated financial reports and executive summaries for senior leadership
• Support ad hoc analysis, financial modeling, and special projects as needed
• Leverage financial systems and work cross-functionally to deliver monthly/quarterly analysis and reporting, including variances to plan, to ensure key issues, risks, and business drivers are clearly communicated
• Proactively identify and analyze business issues and opportunities, including recommendations for future actions
• Initiate, lead, and manage projects which will improve current business results and deliver against strategy

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting or related field
• Excellent analytical skills and problem solving skills, strong business acumen and ability to influence business partners
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team oriented with the ability to engage and influence cross functional teams
• Must be results oriented with strong attention to detail and deadlines
• Ability to independently and reliably execute deliverables on a periodic basis with minimal supervision
• Experience in analysis, forecasting, and budgeting
• Comfortable presenting to groups and senior stakeholders
• Ability to effectively communicate complex financial terms to non-finance professionals
• Excellent prioritization and multitasking abilities
• Intermediate to advanced skills in financial modeling, Microsoft Excel and Power Point

• Consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry experience and strong understanding of operations
• Experience in accounting or cost accounting
• Systems application experience with SAP, o9, Vena and Power
  
  BI is a plus

Bachelor's or University Degree (Required)

At least 3 Years of Experience

$87,400 - $120,230

• Complete insurance package on Day-1 that includes a plethora of health and wellness programs
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Life and accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Telehealth services
• 1:1 health coaching
• Supportive benefits for all the stages of your life
• 401(k) with up to 6% Company matching; additional potential discretionary match at year-end
• Short-Term Incentive/Performance bonuses
• Flexible scheduling options
• Vacation pay, up to three weeks of time (pro-rated for your first year of…