Senior Manager Manufacturing Finance

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!.

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!

Salary Range
: $122,700 - $171,800

Annual Bonus Eligibility

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Paid Time Off

401k & Company Match

This role can sit in the following locations:
San Francisco CA, Sacramento CA, or Denver CO. This position provides financial support to regional bakery operations (multiple facilities) bringing visibility to plant operating performance, ensuring the accuracy of business results and providing insights that drive key performance measures. The role functions as a business partner and analytical/financial resource to the region manufacturing and financial leadership and all levels of bakery management. Key analytics include performance management, forecasting and project analysis.

The position is also responsible for maintaining the control environment ensuring the integrity of key processes and proper management of assets.

The Senior Financial Manager will have financial/accounting responsibility for 7 bakeries located in California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Washington and will manage 4 direct reports.

• Partner with all levels of plant management to gather, analyze and/or prepare financial reports, forecasts and similar ad-hoc analysis.
• Oversee operational spending, fixed asset transactions and proper inventory measurement to ensure proper accounting for period activity.
• Responsible for the development of operational budgets, updating financial forecasts and identifying key drivers of performance.
• Manage and contribute to the post-closing operational analysis to identify/evaluate variances and provide narratives on those variances. This includes EVA (variation analysis) reporting, departmental reviews, tracking to budgets and capturing revisions to key programs.
• Partner with management to continually improve the total cost structure of the bakery operations which include initiatives such as continuous improvement and waste elimination/productivity.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and lead projects that successfully improve processes.
• Support the development of capital investments including business justification & financial impact. This includes proper accounting treatment and post-completion audit.
• Provide financial leadership in support of all strategic and business analysis.
• Participate in plant leadership meetings and strategy sessions by using financial information to point toward opportunities and lend clarity to purpose.
• Issue and review bakery KPI’s with Bakery management with the goal of identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure adherence to all financial and key business process controls and procedures and will be the lead contact/coordinator for all audit activities.
• Lead and coordinate bakery operations reviews and reporting.

• Ability to effectively make strategic decisions with impact on multiple areas.
• Ability to collaborate and align cross-functionally within BU and with corporate.
• Ability to achieve specific objectives/outcomes and set/meet key initiatives.
• Ability to effectively manage direct reports at senior manager and professional staff level.
• Ability to support established project objectives, checkpoints and timelines and manage team members to meet project tasks and expectations.
• Ability to effectively implement programs for area of responsibility.
• Ability to exchange complex information effectively to reach agreement in ambiguous or difficult situations.