Job Title: Senior Finance ManagerJob DescriptionThe Senior Finance Manager serves as a Finance 'Co-Pilot,' partnering with business leaders to transform financial data into actionable insights. This role is crucial in improving decision-making, performance, planning, and execution while upholding financial discipline. It involves challenging assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities, and clarifying the financial impact of key decisions.
Responsibilities- Advise leaders on strategic, operational, and tactical decisions.
- Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
- Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
- Lead forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and business performance reviews.
- Translate data into actionable insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
- Use Center of Excellence (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.
- Lead and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
- Partner with GID Leadership on key decisions to support optimum solutions, including contract pricing support and sensitivities to changes in market values.
- Lead the finance role in Ingredients, Commodity & IB Demand Review (Integrated Business Planning - IBP), evaluating forecasts against product availability and market dynamics.
- Identify risks and opportunities to the financial plan with actions for delivery within the IBP process.
- Lead monthly Financial Performance Management for both GID and IB, incorporating variance root cause analysis, performance versus incentive targets, rolling P&L forecasts and sensitivity analysis, and recommendations to achieve or exceed net profit targets.
- Provide weekly financial updates using financial and business acumen, identifying levers or changes required to achieve or exceed targets.
- Lead the GID budgeting process with appropriate influence and challenge, evaluating demand by product type and pricing by market/customer.
- Provide financial support to the International Branded team by evaluating pricing, promotional, and marketing activities.
Essential Skills- Finance forecasting and costing expertise.
- Commodities experience, particularly with fluctuating markets.
- Proven ability to work effectively with sales teams.
- Demand planning, financial reporting, and financial management expertise.
- Strong business process management and budgeting skills.
- Proficiency in financial modeling and costing.
Additional Skills & Qualifications- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 610+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
- Ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with Senior leaders.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
- Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data.
- Key competencies include Business Acumen, Vision and Purpose, Drive for Results, Influence without Authority, and Sound Judgment.
Work EnvironmentThe work environment is collaborative, fostering growth and a commitment to excellence. As a leader in the almond industry, the company offers health and wellness programs, and company education assistance. The role requires onsite work two days a week.
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 Weeks Paid Vacation401k, Medical, Dental, vision
Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in Sacramento,CA.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Oct 9, 2026.
