Finance Manager, Transportation & Warehousing

Blue Diamond Growers; Elvas (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 133,700; Full time

Job summary

Blue Diamond Growers, a leading almond producer, seeks a Finance Co‑Pilot to partner with business leaders and turn data into actionable insight. You will challenge assumptions, assess risks and opportunities, and quantify financial impact to support decisions, planning, and execution.

In this role you will forecast, budget, and review performance, translate complex data into clear stories, and collaborate across functions to align financial goals with operations.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
• Experience in a manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advise leaders on strategic, operational, investment, and capital decisions.
• Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
• Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and performance reviews.
• Translate data into insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Use COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance.

Skills

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Manufacturing exp

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or CPA preferred

Job description

Work Shift: Day | Pay Type: Salary | Hourly Rate: N/A | Targeted Base Salary Range: $103,000.00 - $133,700.00

JOB OVERVIEW

The Finance “Co‑Pilot” partners with business leaders to turn financial data into clear insights that improve decisions, performance, planning, and execution while maintaining financial discipline. This role challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and clarifies the financial impact of key decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Strategic Partnership & Decision Support

• Advise leaders on strategic, operational, investment, and capital decisions.
• Assess risks, opportunities, trade‑offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
• Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.

Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Support forecasting, budgeting, long‑range planning, and performance reviews.
• Translate data into insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.

Analytics, Insights & Storytelling

• Use COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
• Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions.
• Deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.

Operational & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Partner across functions, the COE, peer co‑pilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with execution.
• Reduce low‑value ad hoc analysis by improving decision support, automation, and standard processes.
• Quantify benefits, track savings, validate results, and bring finance input into discussions early.

Governance & Financial Discipline

• Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity.
• Balance financial rigor with practical business solutions.

Leadership & Capability Building

• Coach leaders and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability.
• Improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Key skills: Business Acumen; Vision and Purpose; Drive for Results; Influence without Authority; Sound Judgment.

Specifics to the function co‑piloted

• Partner with Supply Chain Leadership to understand key decision criteria and support optimum solutions including
  • Modelling continuous network optimization
  • Innovation network needs
  • Transportation analysis
  • 3rd party provider liaison and analysis
• Transportation & Warehousing Financial Performance Management incorporating
  • Variance root cause analysis with recommendations of corrective actions where necessary
  • Identification of cost saving opportunities
  • Drive opportunities for performance improvements through linking non‑financial KPIs to financial returns
• Lead T&W Performance Forecasting incorporating
  • Rates – risks & opportunities
  • Fixed warehousing utilization
• Drive business needs driven T&W AOP providing appropriate influence and challenge
• Monitor trade deduction performance identifying root causes and opportunities for corrective action.
• Inventory Risk Management including identification of risks and mitigating actions

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 6-10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem‑solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non‑finance audiences.
• Experience in a manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment preferred.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
• Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability

WHY BLUE DIAMOND?

In addition to working at the world’s largest, state‑of‑the‑art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE.

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Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. BDG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. BDG also complies with all provisions of the U.S. Government’s Executive Order 11246 dated September 24, 1965 and the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor.