Manager, FP&A - Remote

Job Overview

Responsible for leading the Company’s SG&A consolidated management reporting. This role oversees the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and results cycles, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and alignment across the organization. This position partners with finance and business leaders at both the corporate and functional levels to provide actionable insights, challenge assumptions, and drive forecast accuracy. This position will be the key business partner and financial liaison between the SG&A business area and finance.

In tandem with the business, this role will liaise as necessary within and across functional areas to ensure the finances of the business are accurately accounted for, understood at the transactional level and reported in a timely and consistent manner. This role will also be responsible for overseeing Technology Capital Expenditure projects to ensure they meet financial hurdles and align to business objectives.

In addition, this role plays a critical part in advancing process standardization, system adoption, and continuous improvement within Corporate FP&A.

A role on our Finance and Accounting team involves helping UNFI maintain and grow its financial health as we continue to transform and scale. We need to ensure that our financial analysis and statements revolve around constant communication with our partners within the organization as well as outside to provide the most current statistics for our business health. By being attentive to details, trends, and inefficiencies, and communicating with our teams, you’ll be key to our success and continued growth as North America’s premier grocery wholesaler.

• Obtain and maintain an in depth understanding of the SG&A functional business including emerging business issues for translation in budgets, forecasts, analysis
• Lead, execute and own the annual SG&A budget process. This includes identifying key budget drivers, modelling proposed budget scenarios and partnering with the business to ensure there is alignment, agreement and that the budget truly represents the objectives of the business.
• Deliver periodic forecasts in partnership with the business adhering to bi-weekly timelines
• Lead team through SG&A end of month close process encompassing a large number of transactions
• Analyze, document and communicate variations between actual results and budget, forecast, prior year as needed.
• Executive Deliverables:
  Prepare SG&A reporting packages, including variance analysis, trend identification, and performance commentary to support strategic decision-making.
• Process Standardization:
  Develop, standardize, and continuously improve forecasting and consolidation procedures to enhance accuracy, reduce cycle times, and establish lean practices.
• Technology Enablement:
  Adoption, and optimization of the Workiva platform to streamline SG&A reporting, automate commentary aggregation, and improve consistency across the enterprise.
• Strategic Planning:
  Support scenario modeling, and sensitivity analyses to guide capital allocation and SG&A transformation strategy.
• Insights & Analytics:
  Provide executive leadership with clear, data-driven insights into financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities; leverage historical accuracy analyses to challenge potential biases in divisional forecasts (e.g., overly conservative or aggressive trends).
• Team Leadership:
  Lead, mentor, and develop senior analysts, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture focused on accountability, innovation, and professional growth.

• Cross-Functional Partnership:
  Collaborate with Wholesale FP&A, Controllership, Treasury and divisional finance teams to ensure integrity, alignment, and compliance of SG&A financial reporting.
• Governance & Controls:
  Strengthen financial governance by ensuring consistency in assumptions, methodologies, and reporting practices across business units.
• Executive Support:
  Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, offering perspectives on enterprise financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
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