Finance Manager

About the Opportunity

A growing consumer products company is seeking a Finance Manager to play a key role in FP&A, demand planning, and commercial finance. This is a highly analytical and business-facing position that will partner closely with Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, and Marketing to improve forecasting, optimize inventory, drive profitability, and support strategic decision-making.

The role is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of finance and the business and can turn complex data into practical recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

FP&A

• Lead monthly forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-range planning
• Build driver-based financial models connecting sales, demand, pricing, inventory, and profitability
• Analyze performance against forecast and identify key business drivers and risks
• Develop executive-level reporting, dashboards, and presentations

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Partner with Sales, Supply Chain, Operations, and Marketing on rolling forecasts by SKU, customer, and channel
• Improve forecast accuracy through analysis and refinement of forecasting assumptions
• Incorporate sales trends, promotions, seasonality, new product launches, and customer behavior into forecasts
• Participate in the monthly S&OP process
• Monitor forecast bias, inventory levels, service levels, and stockout risks and recommend corrective actions

Commercial Finance

• Support pricing, trade spend, promotional ROI, and customer profitability initiatives
• Analyze gross margin across products, channels, and customers
• Build models supporting new product launches, assortment decisions, channel expansion, and strategic investments
• Partner with Sales leadership to evaluate customer programs and improve account-level profitability

Data & Process Improvement

• Build automated reporting and dashboards around key business metrics
• Improve forecasting, planning, and reporting processes
• Enhance data integrity across ERP, planning, and BI systems
• Support implementation and optimization of FP&A and demand planning tools

Must Haves

• 5–10+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Demand Planning, or Corporate Finance
• Strong demand planning / forecasting experience
• CPG, food & beverage, retail, e-commerce, or other omnichannel consumer products experience
• Excellent communication and business partnering skills
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities
• Strong understanding of inventory management and S&OP
• Ability to work with large datasets and translate analysis into actionable business recommendations

Nice to Haves

• Experience with NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar ERP
• Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or other BI experience
• SQL or other data analytics experience
• Experience supporting FP&A or demand planning system implementations

Why Consider It?

This is a strong opportunity for a finance professional who wants broad exposure across FP&A, commercial finance, and supply chain rather than a role focused solely on traditional reporting. The position will have meaningful visibility into demand, inventory, pricing, margins, and growth initiatives while working directly with multiple areas of the business.