FPA & Commerical Finance Manager

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• Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial outlook.
• Develop management reporting and KPI dashboards.
• Analyze financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
• Prepare executive presentations highlighting financial trends and business risks.
• Perform ad hoc financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve gross margin across customers and products.
• Analyze manufacturing, ingredients, packaging, labor, freight, and overhead cost trends to identify margin improvement opportunities.
• Monitor pricing realization versus approved pricing.
• Track margin improvement initiatives and measure financial results.
• Recommend corrective actions for underperforming accounts.
• Develop and maintain controls that prevent revenue leakage and ensure all billable activities are captured.
• Ensure all customer billings, including contractual pass-through charges and value-added services, are invoiced accurately and on time.
• Review contracts to verify pricing and billing compliance.
• Partner with Customer Service and Accounting to resolve billing discrepancies.
• Monitor chargebacks, deductions, rebates, and customer credits.
• Perform reconciliations of customer-owned inventory, customer-supplied materials, and zero-cost goods to ensure accurate inventory balances and customer billings.
• Support reconciliation of customer-provided ingredients and packaging.
• Investigate inventory variances and billing differences.
• Coordinate with Operations and Customer Service to resolve discrepancies.
• Ensure contractual obligations related to customer-owned inventory are accurately tracked.
• Serve as the financial business partner to Sales by supporting customer negotiations, pricing strategies, contract reviews, and profitability analysis.
• Support Procurement with sourcing decisions and cost analysis.
• Work closely with Operations to understand manufacturing cost drivers.
• Assist Accounting during month-end close by explaining significant margin and cost variances.
• Support or lead ERP enhancements, reporting automation, and process improvement initiatives that improve financial visibility and decision-making.
• Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance or related field required or a combination of schooling and accounting experience.
• 5 to 8+ years of progressive finance or FP&A experience.
• Ability to demonstrate strong analytical skills with a high attention to detail.
• Proficiency in ERP systems
• Ability to demonstrate a high sense of urgency and be proactive in addressing problems as they arise.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, complex formulas, Power Query a plus)