Manager Sales Finance

About Us

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti dressings and dips, New York Bakery garlic breads, and Sister Schubert's dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden dressings, Chick-fil-A sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings sauces, Arby's sauces, Subway sauces, and Texas Roadhouse steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

Overview

The Manager Sales Finance is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the Finance Group of our $1.9 billion public company. The individual will report to the Director of Retail Finance and collaborate with many other Departments including: Corporate Accounting & Reporting, Sales, Trade Management, & FP&A to accurately prepare monthly financial statements utilizing SAP S/4 Hana, Power BI and other tools. This role will oversee trade accounting and finance processes, support continuous improvement, develop analytics and trend reporting, and support trade audit requirements. Finally, the role also supports the overall achievement of the Finance Department's objectives and annual goals as well as team and individual goals specifically.

Responsibilities

Lead financial consolidation of trade spend across AOP, monthly forecasts, and month-end close to enable timely reconciliation, generate actionable insights, and strengthen cross-functional alignment.

Owns the accrual, reconciliation, and execution of key controls supporting royalties and trade accounting processes. Main point of contact for quarterly and annual trade audit support.

Prepares and analyzes financial sales reports, delivering accurate, timely insights on revenue performance, trends, and variances to support strategic decision-making and forecasting.

Conducts complex analyses to support critical business decisions. Leads financial analysis for determining return on investment (ROI) and profit loss impact (P&L) of incremental trade investments.

Communicates results, risks & opportunities, and complex financial analyses to both financial and business leaders to support and influence decision making.

Champion the continuous evolution of tools, data visualization, and automation by driving the transformation of key processes and optimizing systems for greater efficiency and scalability. Proactively identify improvement opportunities, develop recommendations, and lead end-to-end implementation.

Partners with cross-functional teams to set targets and deadlines, develop plans, conduct analyses, measure results and improve processes. Consults with senior management to present data, propose solutions and identify opportunities for improvement.

Develops innovative approaches to complex problems and situations. Conducts research including external benchmarking and utilizes statistical tools and scenario analysis to guide sound financial business decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or professional certification (CPA/CFA) preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or business analysis.
• Advanced skills in Excel and familiarity with financial systems (e.x., SAP, PowerBI).
• Ability to interpret and analyze financial statements and sales metrics.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Excellent business partnering and communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and present complex financial insights clearly.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines