Job Title: Finance ManagerJob SummaryThe Finance Manager, acting as a 'Co-Pilot', partners with Procurement leaders to transform financial data into actionable insights. This role is pivotal in enhancing decision-making, performance, planning, and execution while upholding financial discipline. The Finance Manager is responsible for challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and clarifying the financial impact of key decisions.
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.
- Utilize COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
- Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.
- 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.
- Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity while balancing financial rigor with practical business needs.
- Mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
- Evaluate and support optimal sourcing, supplier, and spend-management decisions, including sourcing strategy development and financial analysis, supplier negotiations, and contract reviews.
- Analyze purchase price variance, inflation, and productivity, recommending corrective actions where necessary.
- Identify, validate, and track cost savings opportunities.
- Strengthen procedures around supplier spend, purchase commitments, and contract compliance.
- Support procurement-related cash flow forecasting and working capital management, including supplier payment terms, purchase commitments, and inventory impacts.
- Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate inventory replenishment strategies, balancing service levels, cost efficiency, and cash flow objectives.
Essential Skills- Expertise in finance, financial reporting, and costing.
- Experience in Food & Agriculture, with secondary preference for Manufacturing.
- Proficiency in demand planning, commodities, financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 610+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
- Experience in a manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment.
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with leaders.
- Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Sacramento, CA.
Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $155000.00 - $165000.00/yr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
20% Bonus3 Week of VacationMedical, Dental, Vision401k
Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Sacramento, CA.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Nov 6, 2026.
Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in Sacramento,CA.
