Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

Commercial Finance Director

Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits • $185K — $195K *
Syosset, NY 11791In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
  • 5+ years of relevant commercial finance experience
  • Expertise in P&L responsibility and forecasting
  • Experience in financial planning and pricing management in CPG
  • Familiarity with state regulations and adult beverage market dynamics

Responsibilities

  • Analyze pricing and promotional activities to enhance trade spend effectiveness
  • Evaluate data sources on product financial performance to identify optimization opportunities
  • Provide strategic decision support for volume growth while maintaining value
  • Develop and implement new reporting tools as needed
  • Lead training initiatives to enhance team capabilities in margin management
  • Assist in creating the annual sales plan for revenue and gross profit
  • Ensure consistent implementation of company priorities and initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training programs for professional development
  • Opportunities for career advancement
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Standardized tools for efficient performance reporting
  • Access to advanced financial analytics and reporting resources
Full Job Description
Overview

The Director, Commercial Finance serves as a business partner to the Corporate Commercial team in optimizing/maximizing profit and delivering gross margin performance through effective pricing, promotions, and programming analysis. This role is responsible for embedding standardized tools and processes within the assigned region to ensure consistency and efficiencies in performance reporting and analytics. This role partners closely with Trade Development and supports Corporate Revenue Management objectives.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Provide analysis of pricing and promotional activities to drive effective use of trade spend and impact to internal profitability
  • Analyze various data sources related to product/supplier financial performance, identify opportunities, and provide recommendations for areas of optimization
  • Provide decision support to drive achievement of volume growth while protecting the value
  • Participate in the development and adoption of new reporting tools as needed
  • Lead Commercial Finance training delivery with the team to develop capabilities focused on margin enhancement inclusive of pricing and promotional spend management and effectiveness
  • Assist with the development of the annual sales plan (volume/revenue/gross profit) for inclusion in the internal financial plan
  • Support the consistent implementation of company initiatives; define guidelines/roadmap to drive local understanding and execution against priorities
  • Ensure accurate and efficient distribution of commercial finance reports and other business intelligence essential to the commercial organization
  • Recruit, select, orient, and train employees; conduct terminations, as needed
  • Coach and counsel employees as applicable; discipline individuals according to company policy; plan and monitor employee goals, and appraise performance
  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned


Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field of study
  • 5+ years of relevant experience with an emphasis on commercial experience, P&L responsibility, and forecasting
  • Experience with financial planning and pricing management in the CPG industry; supplier and wholesaler experience
  • Knowledge of applicable state regulations and adult beverage market dynamics


Physical Demands

  • Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
  • Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
  • May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs


About Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is a beverage distribution company that provides a wide range of products and services to customers across the United States. The company offers a variety of wines, spirits, and beers, as well as related products and services, such as marketing and merchandising support, education and training, and logistics and transportation. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits was formed in 2016 through the merger of Southern Wine & Spirits and Glazer's, Inc. The company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Learn more about Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits
Size
20,000 employees
Industry
Transportation
* Ladders Estimates

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