Finance Manager - Commercial
About Beech-Nut Nutrition Company...
We are one of America's leading companies providing nutritious, wholesome foods for babies using real ingredients, gently cooked, with non-GMO verified, Natural or organic ingredients in almost all our products.
Our work is organized around our mission To delight Consumers through honest Goodness in every Bite. We care deeply about others, the planet, and are empowered to make a difference. We expect, reward and celebrate strong performance.
Our Values...
Our ambition to grow is underpinned by our four core values Create wow, Everyone Hero, Nourish others, & Take Responsibility. Our values help us navigate the ever-changing environment in which we operate and ensure we innovate to meet customer needs.
Create wow ~ Everyone Hero ~ Nourish others ~ Take responsibility
If this sounds like a place you want to invest your time, keep reading!
About the Role...
The Finance Manager - Commercial is responsible for partnering with Sales & Trade Planning, Category Management, Marketing, and FP&A to drive profitable growth. You will provide key business and financial leadership in support of Beech-Nut's Commercial Team by providing collaborative solutions, identifying trends, and developing new ideas and opportunities. This position requires an individual that can innovate, create, and operate as an entrepreneur. You will undertake pressure testing and validating all inputs into the commercial P&L and be the financial voice in pricing, promotional spend, and customer strategies. You will build guardrails, elevate insights, and help the business make data-driven decisions. You will align cross-functional partners and ensure we have reliable, timely visibility into where the business is headed. You will help build the processes, tools, and discipline that enable predictable performance and proactive decision-making.
This role ensures that our investments in trade, pricing, distribution, A&P, and innovation translate into incremental volume and healthy margins. You will build customer P&Ls, lead monthly financial reviews, and improve forecast accuracy.
This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct influence on revenue, profitability, planning, and strategy.
About the Team...
The Finance Team is responsible for ensuring the financial integrity of the organization. The team covers everything from financial reporting and strategy to paying the farmers who are bringing us the very best fruits and vegetables. The team works closely with various internal teams to advise on financial decisions so we can continue doing what we do best - making high quality, safe, and nutritious foods for babies and toddlers!
About the Work Environment...
The position is remote/hybrid based out of the Amsterdam, N.Y. production facility. Our facility was just built in 2010 and is the world's first LEED® certified baby food manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate will be located in the Tri-state area (NY/NJ/CT).
What You'll Do...
Perform detailed financial analysis including advanced financial modeling, return on investment, and monitoring business issues to translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for cross-functional and executive team
Build, maintain, and improve customer P&L's and performance scorecards. Build dashboards and reporting for trade, customer margin, price/volume mix, and forecast accuracy
Own channel and customer level profitability; parter with Sales to deliver revenue and margin targets by understanding distribution, trade efficiencies, and cost to serve customers.
Build, maintain, and improve platform P&L's. Partner with Marketing to understand product velocities, price pack strategies, elasticity insights, and how they will impact forecasts.
Analyze and develop recommendations for improving Advertising and Promotional spend based on ROI and key KPI's.
Build, maintain, and improve Innovation P&L's. Partner with cross-functional business partners on understanding the profitability and feasibility of new projects and innovation.
Lead monthly business reviews with Sales and Finance, highlighting performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Participate in the annual planning process, mid-year forecasts, and short-term outlooks.
Partner with E-Commerce partners on sales drivers, advertising spend, ROAS, and their impact on sales forecasts and profitability
Partner with cross-functional parters to align sales forecast and support the S&OP process.
Analytically communicate results based on comparison to plan and prior year, analysis, and interpretation of financial and non-financial information.
Interpret changes in the commercial environment and develop the resulting financial impact.
Develop proactive and collaborative solutions for commercial challenges and maximization of opportunities.
Focus on improving and acting on information for decision making within a fast-paced environment.
Develop a deep and intuitive understanding of the business, and what drives success through inquisitive and open dialogue with others.
Participate in the accounting close process which may include account analysis, accrual calculations, and other related accounting matters.
Other responsibilities include audit support, reporting support, presentation preparation, and ad-hoc requests.
Who You Are...
Deciding and Initiating Action: You make timely decisions while weighing risks. You act without being prompted and take responsibility for projects, people, and mistakes.
Planning & Organizing: You set clearly defined objectives, establish priorities, plan activities and projects, and manage time effectively. You monitor progress against deadlines and milestones.
Working with People: You demonstrate interest in and understanding of others. You work well with a group of people and encourage harmony and cooperation within a team to develop collective trust. You collaborate and share information, encouraging others to do the same, and listen carefully.
Persuading & Influencing: You make a strong personal impression on others. You gain clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing, and negotiating. You can change the opinions of others and close discussions with firm agreement and clear action on all sides.
What You'll Need...
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Engineering (with experience in FP&A) or a related field
8+ years in financial analysis roles; experience in consumer product goods is preferred
Experience with SAP and Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Power BI, Planful Analytics software, or other analysis tools
Ability to work with a reasonable amount of uncertainty and provide best estimates with confidence
Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, high attention to detail and the ability to translate data into decision making
Ability to understand and define issues, collect, and analyze data, establish facts, and draw conclusions
Ability to collaborate across functions as a business partner and service provider
Excellent communication skills and ability be able to retrieve information from a variety of sources
An entrepreneurial spirit - be willing to learn and work with Finance counterparts to strengthen financial performance
What's in it for you? Compensation, Benefits & More...
At Beech-Nut, we are devoted to creating an inclusive culture where our team members are professionally challenged and cared for personally.
We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and take into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills, relevant work experience, certifications and qualifications, education, and other business needs. Compensation for a role will be in line with the location in which the position is filled.
Our associates also have access to opportunities for professional development and training, access to our on-site amenities as well as many other benefits and perks! We are proud to offer our associates the following:
Pay: The annual base salary range for this remote/hybrid role is $120,000 - $145,000. This is a salaried-exempt position.
Benefits : This position gives you access to a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage for you and your dependents; life & long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings account, paid vacation and holidays, New York State paid sick time, and 401(k) retirement benefits with 4% company match.
Professional Development:
Tuition assistance
Access to an online learning system (LMS)
Access to robust on-the-job (OTJ) training programs
More Perks!
Opportunities to volunteer and support the local community
Generous maternity/paternity benefits & take your child's 1st birthday off
Take your birthday off each year!
Baby food coupon program until your child's 2nd birthday
Service Awards
Amenities:
On-site fitness center
On-site cafeteria
On-site Company Store
A private on-site Mother's Room to support nursing mothers and pumping needs at work
New! Nourish Others Learning Lab with computer stations
Notice:
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
To all agencies: All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Beech-Nut via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Beech-Nut, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Beech-Nut for this position and a valid agreement is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the Beech-Nut Nutrition agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
