How you will make history here…
The Finance Manager, Logistics Finance – Snacks supports the cross functional team in the support and execution of +$300MM of spending for the Snacks division, along with the support of +$20MM of L&T Enabler savings. The primary responsibilities of this position are to provide detailed, accurate and timely financial analysis regarding warehousing costs and L&T enablers, provide insight on month-end variance analysis, and drivers of inflation vs. projection, AOP and PY along with cost offsets. This role supports the business with understanding key operational performance and analytics on warehousing initiatives, reviewing and tracking L&T enablers, and driving process and reporting improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include review, analysis, and collaboration with cross functional team members on projections as well as annual strategic and operating plans.
This highly cross-functional role requires that the person provide financial support for a wide range of strategic warehousing and enabler initiatives, monthly performance results, monitoring and reporting directives around warehousing and enabler requirements.
This person will develop, organize, and implement assigned Supply Chain Finance activities designed to support business strategies and as a SME in support of supply chain and corporate functional teams.
The successful candidate must be able to work effectively within the supply chain matrix and across multiple geographies or divisions and the candidate will be expected to partner with operations, finance, and plant/brand/sales management.
This role entails the responsibility for the career development of two direct reports.
What you will do…
Financial Planning and Analysis:
- Development of monthly financial projections and annual operating plans, including Risk and Opportunity management, partnering with parties supporting the IBP cycle
- Variance Analysis on Results against Monthly Financial Projections, AOP, and PY
- Ensure accurate monthly financial rollup by reviewing relevant accounting journal entries and accruals done by accounting
- Full financial support for any warehousing projects including:
- Support sourcing changes across external warehousing locations, or insourcing into manufacturing facilities
- Warehousing invoicing process and approach (current state vs steady state strategy)
- Partner with Procurement for any warehousing contract review and set-up
- Provide analytical insight regarding monthly financial results linking COPM results to COPS
- Lead Logistics enabler process for Warehousing including:
- Pipeline ideation partnering with operational counterparts to deliver AOP targets
- Development of savings (methodology, approach for tracking and actualizing results)
- Lead monthly "working session" with operations team to manage performance YTD/YTG and mitigate risk, report out to leadership
- Support the enabler tracking program to ensure proper reporting on L&T enabler projects
- Support the total L&T team with Ad Hoc reporting needs and monthly reviews
Business Management and Reporting:
- Lead monthly Warehousing review with supply chain operations, finance, and planning team and remote locations to share-out results to identify and triage cost drivers
- Develop analyses to support the justification of warehousing spend while identifying margin drivers and implications to brand teams and P&L owners
- Work with brand, sales, and BI reporting teams to optimize warehousing reporting package to link operations to financial metrics
- Lead total L&T enabler process end to end including, the development of targets, savings projects, review of performance, and report out to leadership
What you will bring to the table… (Must Have)
- Cross functional business partnering with sales, demand, supply, brand, and finance teams
- Provide strategic insight for future state global supply chain structure and optimizing "how we work" (both operational and financial support)
- Must perform a variety of financial functions including, but not limited to, corporate finance, planning, budgeting, and detailed financial analysis
- Ability to interpret complex data and provide data in a meaningful format to management review
- Strong business acumen and ability to share business knowledge with non-financial individuals
- Must be comfortable dealing with multiple agendas and driving decisions through influencing without authority
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, as timeline to action may be tight and require significant cross-functional coordination
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across multiple business functions
- Proactively identify continuous improvement opportunities and demonstrate intellectual curiosity
- Ensure financial processes are adhered to according to CSC standards and best practices
- Bachelor’s Degree – preferably in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration
- Minimum 5-10 years of professional experience, preferably in the CPG industry
- Understanding and experience with budgeting and forecasting processes
- Understanding basic accounting principles and the ability to work in ERP environment
- Strong problem solving and analytical abilities including prior financial modeling
- Proficient with MS Excel, Word, Access and Power Point
- Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential
- Ability to work as part of a team and interface with others across all levels of the organization
- Knowledge of SAP and EPM a plus
Skills Required
Action Oriented, Business Acumen, Functional Technical Skills, Communication, Integrity and Trust, Problem Solving, Process Management and ability to work in a team environment
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