What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Finance Manager position at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.?
The Commercial Finance manager is a critical business partner to the Commercial organization. The finance manager works cross-functionally with other finance and operations teams, Strategic Business Unit (SBU’s) to develop powerful insights, market assessments and deliver financial targets on sales, product P&L and R&D for new products.
- Provides lead financial support to the Commercial team on S&OP, enhancing the S&OP discussion to discuss both volume and margins
- Responsible for providing monthly results analysis on volumes and revenue with a deep dive into root causes and variance vs. PY, Budget and Forecast
- Provides financial support to both Sales and Marketing teams during the annual budget exercise
- Support the monthly Risk and Opportunities update, actively indicating the future action plans to mitigate risks while optimizing opportunities by highlighting the financial implications
- Monitor and analyze the spending to support sales, including but not limited to Promotions, Coupons, Demos and Marketing events
- Understand manufacturing and supply chain cost structure to improve cost and recommend portfolio changes.
- Understand industry key drivers and trends that influence the company’s competitive position and conduct comparable company analysis
- Drive standardization on reports and leverage further standardized PowerBI reports
- Assist in Standardization of performance metrics and perform benchmarking and root-cause analyses
- Develop meaningful SG&A reports for the Commercial organization to proactively manage their spending
- Support developing financial models for new businesses (customers, channels, products)
- Support Commercial organization in anchoring/tracking strategic plans supporting long term goals.
- Participate in key technology and kaizen initiatives as needed.
- Ad-hoc requests from Commercial team & Director.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA Strongly Preferred
- 5 years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in the Food industry and consumer packaged goods.
- Strong analytical, systems and communications skills
- Proven leadership experience
- Ability to work in a fast-paced growth environment with an appropriate balance of urgency and quality.
- Broad business experience on P&L
- Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to interact with Business Unit executives in a professional manner
- Must be a team player with initiative, passion and a demonstrated ability to drive profit improvement initiatives.
- Exercises considerable discretion and independent judgment and handles confidential information.
- Highly proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
- This position is based in Ontario, California with some domestic travel
- Range of pay $131,000 - $160,000 annually. Plus, 20% annual bonus potentional.
Salary : $131,000 - $160,000