Strategic Finance Director - Growth & Ops Partner

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

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.