Finance Manager-Dairy Foods

Finance Manager-Dairy Foods

Dairy Foods is seeking a strategic and results oriented Finance Manager to lead consolidated business unit reporting and support long-term strategic planning for our Dairy Foods business.

This role will partner closely with the Director of FP&A to lead consolidated reporting of Dairy Foods results throughout the enterprise, including monthly, quarterly and YTD results, annual budget and forecast, periodic risks and opportunities to achieving plan, and other requests as needed.

To ensure accuracy and success, this role will play an active role with the Senior Finance Managers of US Dairy Foods and Global Dairy Ingredients to ensure forecast accuracy and continuous learning.

In addition, you will support the FP&A team as they partner with key leaders to analyze long range strategic growth opportunities across Dairy Foods.

The candidate will develop a core understanding of the Dairy Foods business and awareness of industry trends and convert those insights into financial return models.

This role will also support Total Dairy Foods organic growth through organization target setting, tracking, and future projections.

This position is located at our headquarters in Arden Hills, MN (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in office each week).

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Director of Dairy Foods FP&A to ensure reliable, timely, accurate, in-depth communication of financials: short-term forward-looking projections, monthly, quarterly, and YTD results, and ongoing opportunities and risks to performance

• Partner across the FP&A team to drive forecast accuracy, foster team collaboration, and develop financial modeling and insights

• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes at the strategic total Dairy Foods level

• Support the process to analyze and model long range strategic growth options.

Support preliminary business case development for executive-level review

• Support key business partners promoting and tracking organic growth of core businesses

Experience/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or related field is required.

MBA/CPA desired

• A minimum of 8-10 years of progressive experience

• Advanced skills in financial return modeling across both the P&L and Balance Sheet

Competencies:

• Courageous curiosity to independently but constructively challenge others and seek continuous improvement

• Ability to synthesize dynamic inputs like changing commodity market conditions into key recommendations with clear impacts and implications

• Ability to condense complex topics into simple, digestible narratives that influence key decision-making, with clear stakeholder communication

• Ability to take an enterprise view of the value chain and build strong relationships

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills

• Experience working in a matrixed, fast-paced environment

$107,680-$161,520.

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