Finance Manager, FP&A Customer Brands - Hybrid

Wells Enterprises, Inc.; Le Mars (IA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry is seeking a Finance Manager for its Customer Brands division. This hybrid role involves strategic financial analyses, reporting to senior leaders, and managing financial processes to optimize profitability and drive growth. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and have extensive experience in finance leadership within a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years finance leadership experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry preferred.
• Knowledge of financial processes, modeling, control, analysis, reporting, and budgeting.
• Collaborative abilities and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning for Customer Brands.
• Analyze financial results and provide insights to senior leadership.
• Manage pricing and conduct financial analysis for new product development.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Organization

Problem-solving skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Excel proficiency

Hyperion Essbase skills

Effective communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

Job description

Finance Manager, FP&A Customer Brands - Hybrid

United States

Job Description

As the Financial Manager, Customer Brands, you will provide direction and strategic planning through complex and interpretive financial analyses for the Customer Brands (private label and co-manufacturing) product portfolio. Present results and recommendations to senior leaders in order to drive profitable growth and enable action-oriented decision making. Serve as a strategic business partner to internal customers and stakeholders to maximize financial outcomes and optimize customer profitability.

Wells Enterprises Finance Department supports a hybrid working environment, and this position is mostly remote with some travel to Corporate Offices.

Preferred Cities include Le Mars, IA, Bentonville, AR, Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC, Henderson, NV, Omaha, NE, Denver, CO, Minneapolis, MN, Kansas City, MO, Philadelphia, PA, or Dallas, TX, but all US-based applicants encouraged to apply!

Responsibilities:

• Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes for the Customer Brands business unit, partnering with cross-functional finance departments and Sales, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Analyze financial results and key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Lead comprehensive financial analysis and reporting to support Chief Customer Officer.
• Review monthly results against budgets, prior forecasts, and sales targets, including identification of variance drivers and insight to developing trends.
• Ownership of Sales SG&A non-labor accounts and marketing spend, including partnering with Sales Directors/VPs for monthly forecast adjustments and annual budget requests.
• Manage pricing for assigned customer accounts, including maintaining and updating variable pricing models, conducting analysis for annual price adjustments, supporting bids, and contributing financial input for new product development initiatives.
• Partner with Corporate FP&A and IT to drive system enhancements and focus on continuous improvements and scalability that will impact overall business processes.
• Champion change management behaviors and influence business partners.
• Proactively identify and lead process improvement projects that enhance our ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement.

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Qualifications

IIn addition to the responsibilities listed above, other duties may be assigned by your supervisor, as dictated by business necessity.

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 7 + years finance leadership experience. Prefer experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry or within a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge: Knowledge of financial processes; including modeling, control, analysis, reporting and budgeting
• Skills: Strong analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills. Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications. Excel (can perform complex functions) and Hyperion Essbase skills. Must possess effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Abilities: Collaborative abilities in building business partnerships. Attention to detail and accuracy, multi-tasking abilities and effectively manage priorities. Must be results-driven and able to deal with ambiguity and change.

* Reports to Director Finance Customer Brands

* Direct Reports -No

Wells Enterprises is an EEO/AA employer M/F/Vet/Dis

Job Info

• Job Identification 2208434
• Job Category Finance
• Posting Date 05/20/2025, 08:37 PM
• Job Schedule Full time