OpCo Finance Director

Performance Food Group; Springfield (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Core-Mark seeks a senior finance partner to the OpCo Presidents, guiding financial goals and strategies across the organization. This on-site role involves light travel between Columbus, Cleveland, and Detroit to ensure alignment with business plans and asset protection.

You will develop annual strategic plans, review profitability, forecast performance, and provide insights to drive revenue growth and efficiency. Strong leadership, communication, and data analysis skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance is required.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and forecasting.
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability.
• Excellent organization and leadership skills.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Capable of being persuasive effectively at the highest levels.
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business.
• Ability to work effectively with large amounts of data, drill down into details and provide incisive high level overviews; extreme attention to details.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual strategic and financial business plans for divisions in collaboration with the management team, ensuring they are focused on achieving revenue growth targets and operational efficiencies while ensuring the linkage between the plan and longer‑term growth goals.
• Review customer proformas to support pricing / bid process and evaluate actual profitability against expectations. Participate in Customer Business reviews as needed.
• Ensure expense leverage throughout the division by reviewing and making recommendations for savings in expense areas including selling, warehouse, delivery and general departments.
• Responsible for submission of timely and accurate forecasts and trend analyses with agreed template and timetables established by corporate financial planning and analysis.
• Communicate any material change to forecast/budget as soon as known.
• Review financial results, including revenue and expense trends, with division's management team and make recommendations for corrective action to mitigate variances from plan.
• Prepare, review and approve month end variance reporting, highlighting key variances to plan and last year
• Review and process month end journal entries to ensure a timely and accurate close process.
• Monitor inventory management systems, policies and procedures to protect asset value. Special emphasis required to ensure proper procedures and controls are in place to keep inventory shrink at or below Company standard.
• Support external and internal audit processes as necessary.
• Provide ad hoc analysis as needed to support the Regional VP and Division Presidents.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance

Job description

Company Description:

Core-Mark continues to grow as the industry leader in fresh and broadline solutions for the convenience retail industry. With a reputation for empowering customers, employees, and communities, Core-Mark has become the largest, most comprehensive marketer of consumer goods in North America - offering a full range of products, programs, and solutions to convenience operators across the U.S. and Canada.

Job Description:

Position Summary:

To be a primary business partner to the OpCo President(s) at assigned OpCo(s) in setting financial goals and strategies across the organization. This position is responsible for assigned organizations' financial planning and management, providing business insight and recommendations to drive achievement of the division's business plan and maximizing its return on net assets, ensuring proper internal controls and procedures are established and followed, and for safeguarding the assets of the division(s).

This role is on-site that requires light travel between our Columbus, Cleveland, and Detroit locations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop annual strategic and financial business plans for divisions in collaboration with the management team, ensuring they are focused on achieving revenue growth targets and operational efficiencies while ensuring the linkage between the plan and longer‑term growth goals.
• Review customer proformas to support pricing / bid process and evaluate actual profitability against expectations. Participate in Customer Business reviews as needed.
• Ensure expense leverage throughout the division by reviewing and making recommendations for savings in expense areas including selling, warehouse, delivery and general departments.
• Responsible for submission of timely and accurate forecasts and trend analyses with agreed template and timetables established by corporate financial planning and analysis.
• Communicate any material change to forecast/budget as soon as known.
• Review financial results, including revenue and expense trends, with division's management team and make recommendations for corrective action to mitigate variances from plan.
• Prepare, review and approve month end variance reporting, highlighting key variances to plan and last year
• Review and process month end journal entries to ensure a timely and accurate close process.
• Monitor inventory management systems, policies and procedures to protect asset value. Special emphasis required to ensure proper procedures and controls are in place to keep inventory shrink at or below Company standard.
• Support external and internal audit processes as necessary.
• Provide ad hoc analysis as needed to support the Regional VP and Division Presidents.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Benefits:

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and finance is required
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, financial analysis and forecasting
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability
• Excellent organization and leadership skills
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Capable of being persuasive effectively at the highest levels
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders in functions and teams across the business
• Ability to work effectively with large amounts of data, drill down into details and provide incisive high level overviews; extreme attention to details

Preferred qualifications:

• Leading and Supervising
  Provides clear direction, sets expectations, delegates effectively, motivates and develops employees, and recruits high‑performing talent.
• Persuading and Influencing
  Builds credibility, gains buy‑in, negotiates effectively, promotes ideas, and influences key stakeholders.
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
  Aligns strategies with organizational goals, develops a compelling vision, and considers broader business priorities.
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
  Prioritizes customer satisfaction, maintains quality and productivity, works systematically, and consistently achieves goals.
• Adapting and Responding to Change
  Embraces change, adapts to different people and situations, respects cultural differences, and navigates ambiguity effectively.
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking
  Monitors market trends and competitors, identifies business opportunities, understands financial performance, and prioritizes cost control and profitability.

EEO Statement:

Performance Food Group and/or its subsidiaries (individually or collectively, the "Company") provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all applicants and employees, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations. Please click on the following links to review: (1) our EEO Policy; (2) the "EEO is the Law" poster and supplement; and (3) the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.