Finance Manager

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Finance Manager Job Description The Finance Manager, acting as a 'Co-Pilot', partners with Procurement leaders to transform financial data into actionable insights. This role is pivotal in enhancing decision‑making, performance, planning, and execution while upholding financial discipline. The Finance Manager is responsible for challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and clarifying the financial impact of key decisions.

• Advise leaders on strategic, operational, investment, and capital decisions.
• Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
• Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, long‑range planning, and performance reviews.
• Translate data into insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Utilize COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
• Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.
• Partner across functions, the COE, peer co‑pilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with execution.
• Reduce low‑value ad‑hoc analysis by improving decision support, automation, and standard processes.
• Quantify benefits, track savings, validate results, and bring finance input into discussions early.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity while balancing financial rigor with practical business needs.
• Mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Evaluate and support optimal sourcing, supplier, and spend‑management decisions, including sourcing strategy development and financial analysis, supplier negotiations, and contract reviews.
• Analyze purchase price variance, inflation, and productivity, recommending corrective actions where necessary.
• Identify, validate, and track cost savings opportunities.
• Strengthen procedures around supplier spend, purchase commitments, and contract compliance.
• Support procurement‑related cash flow forecasting and working capital management, including supplier payment terms, purchase commitments, and inventory impacts.
• Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate inventory replenishment strategies, balancing service levels, cost efficiency, and cash flow objectives.

• Expertise in finance, financial reporting, and costing.
• Experience in Food & Agriculture, with secondary preference for Manufacturing.
• Proficiency in demand planning, commodities, financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 610+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
• Experience in a manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non‑finance audiences.

• Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Key skills include Business Acumen, Vision and Purpose, Drive for Results, Influence without Authority, and Sound Judgment.

This position is a Hybrid schedule. The work environment is collaborative, offering opportunities for growth and a commitment to excellence. The organization is a…