Manager II Finance

Peapod Digital Labs

$125K — $187K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, or related field
  • 8+ years in value realization, strategy, financial analysis, or business transformation
  • Experience in building business cases and KPI frameworks
  • Experience with investment proposal cycles or capital approvals
  • Strong analytical skills linking KPIs to financial outcomes
  • Proficient in influencing across cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Excellent communication and storytelling capabilities
  • Familiarity with ERP transformations, especially SAP S/4

Responsibilities

  • Lead the finance value agenda, aligning business case assumptions with program design and finance standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and validate value opportunities linked to operational changes.
  • Establish finance-owned baselines and measurement methodologies for transparent program value tracking.
  • Manage benefits realization tracking, including variance analysis and gap identification.
  • Deliver reporting and dashboards to support transformation governance and financial decision-making.
  • Work alongside investment and financial analysis teams to ensure accurate representation of costs and benefits in financial plans.
  • Support ongoing operations by transitioning benefit tracking into regular finance and business processes.

Benefits

  • Flexible/hybrid work schedule with 3 in-office days and 2 remote days
  • Opportunity to work in core locations including Salisbury, NC, and Quincy, MA
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Engagement in large-scale enterprise transformation projects
  • Potential for travel up to 25% to enhance professional exposure
Full Job Description
Category/Area of Expertise: Accounting/Finance
Job Requisition: 508264
Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street
Store Code: FP and A Reporting - HR - NFR (2761790)

Primary Purpose:

The Value Realization Finance Manager, supporting transformation programs, is responsible for leading the financial value agenda and ensuring the program delivers measurable, sustainable business outcomes across merchandising, supply chain, store operations, and data domains. This position provides financial rigor, governance, and insight to the development, refinement, and tracking of the program value case, translating operational changes into credible financial impact and decision support.

This role partners closely with the System Integrator's Value Lead, Investment Analysis, project accounting, and FP&A teams across ADUSA and the Local Brands to align business case assumptions, operating costs, benefits, and timing within enterprise financial processes. Through value governance, forecasting integration, and finance-led performance tracking, the role helps ensure transformation decisions remain anchored in enterprise priorities, financial commitments, and realized business value.

*Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-office days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC, and Quincy, MA.

*All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full time bases.

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Lead the finance value agenda by developing, maintaining, and governing the integrated business case, ensuring assumptions, value drivers, KPIs, and timing align with program design, enterprise priorities, and finance standards.
  • Partner with the System Integrator's Value Lead and cross-functional business team"])self.__next_f.push([1,"s to identify, validate, and quantify value opportunities, translating operational changes and performance metrics into credible financial impact and decision support.
  • Establish and maintain finance-owned value baselines, benefit methodologies, measurement approaches, and data requirements to support consistent, transparent, and auditable tracking of program value across brands and functions.
  • Own end-to-end benefits realization tracking, including actuals collection, variance analysis, gap-to-target identification, and mitigation planning, to improve accountability and support delivery of committed business outcomes.
  • Provide reporting, dashboards, executive narratives, and scenario analysis that inform transformation governance, investment decisions, prioritization, and actions needed to protect or improve value realization.
  • Partner with Investment Analysis, project accounting, and FP&A teams to ensure program costs, benefits, forecasts, and value assumptions are accurately reflected in investment proposals, approvals, budgets, and financial plans.
  • Support value realization through deployment and into ongoing operations by identifying risks, challenging assumptions, and helping transition benefit tracking and accountability into regular finance and business performance processes.
  • Additional duties may be assigned as needed to meet business needs
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, or related discipline)
  • 8+ years of experience in value realization, strategy, financial analysis, operational excellence, or business transformation roles
  • Experience building and managing business cases, benefit models, and KPI frameworks for enterprise transformations
  • Experience supporting investment proposal cycles or capital approval processes
  • Strong analytical capability, including ability to connect operational KPIs to financial outcomes
  • Demonstrated experience influencing across business and technology teams
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and executive-ready storytelling capabilities
  • Experience partnering with System Integrators on value modeling and business-case refinement
  • Familiarity with large-scale ERP transformations (preferably SAP S/4 in retail context)
  • Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to travel up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree (MBA, MSF, MS Analytics)
  • Retail or grocery industry experience with KPIs related to shrink, inventory, replenishment, supply chain, and promotions
  • Experience with process diagnostics or value identification frameworks

Salary Range NC: $108,880 - $163,320

Salary Range MA: $125,200 - $187,800

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