Senior Category Finance Manager for Growth & Profit

William Vaughn; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 139,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

William Vaughn, a growing consumer products company, seeks a Senior Manager of Category Finance in Chicago. The role partners with Sales, Marketing and Revenue Growth to influence pricing, trade investments, and portfolio decisions.

The ideal candidate has owned a category or brand P&L in a CPG environment and can translate financial data into actionable recommendations that drive profitable growth. You will help lead planning, forecasting, and performance reviews with senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive finance experience in CPG, food, beverage or branded consumer products.
• Experience owning or supporting a category, brand, customer, or business-unit P&L.
• Strong understanding of pricing, gross-to-net, and promotional effectiveness.
• Experience partnering with Sales, Marketing and cross-functional leadership.
• Ability to turn financial analysis into commercial recommendations.
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, forecasting, and performance management across brands, categories, customers, and channels.
• Partner on pricing, trade investment, promotions, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Own gross-to-net forecasting including trade spend, pricing, and promotions.
• Analyze category and customer performance across volume, price, mix, distribution, and profitability.
• Develop customer, category, SKU, and channel P&Ls to improve visibility.
• Evaluate innovation and new-product opportunities with ROI assumptions.
• Lead promotions analysis to improve ROI and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities across SKU rationalization, portfolio mix, and resource allocation.
• Lead annual planning, rolling forecasts, and risk/opportunity reviews.
• Present financial performance and recommendations to executives.
• Build reporting tools and scalable models in a lean organization.
• Operate between strategy and execution, delivering timely leadership-ready insights.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

P&L ownership

Pricing strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Business partnering

CPG experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Tableau

Job description

William Vaughn, a growing consumer products company, seeks a Senior Manager of Category Finance in Chicago. The role partners with Sales, Marketing and Revenue Growth to influence pricing, trade investments, and portfolio decisions.

The ideal candidate has owned a category or brand P&L in a CPG environment and can translate financial data into actionable recommendations that drive profitable growth. You will help lead planning, forecasting, and performance reviews with senior leadership.