Senior Manager, Brand Finance - Contigo and bubba

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Support global P&L review with cross functional teams, providing profitability insights to drive profitable growth and mitigate risk.
• Analyze global results by explaining key P&L drivers for the period versus forecast, budget, and prior year, including customer and product volume/mix, trade spend, and advertising and promotions.
• Prepare and consolidate monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and strategic plans in collaboration with Brand Management, Market Development and Planning, Sales, and Supply Chain.
• Analyze proposed advertising, promotional spending, and activation investments with ROI analytics to inform current and future decisions.
• Support commercialization and go-to-market analysis, including controls on trade rate investments.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to monitor marketplace performance, including POS, market share, and category growth trends, and recommend actions based on insights.
• Establish MSRP and category pricing in conjunction with Brand Management and Customer Planning & Strategy based on market conditions and competitive landscape.
• Support New Product Development processes by developing forecasts, preparing financials, and analyzing project return metrics.
• Optimize portfolio assortment based on SKU performance, innovation plans, and market trends, and recommend enhancements.
• Provide analytical support for profitable growth strategies at product and brand levels, including gross margin optimization.
• Liaise with Operations Finance to summarize impacts of standard costs and manufacturing variances.
• Support managing and optimizing working capital, including inventory management and sell-through recommendations.
• Foster positive relationships within finance, cross-functional, and regional leadership teams.
• Identify operating or capability gaps and lead improvement projects with key stakeholders.
• Ensure governance, control, and compliance with corporate and external procedures and audits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field; master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with increasing responsibility.
• Broad-based financial acumen in consumer goods, including brand, commercial, sales, operations, and FP&A.
• Strong knowledge of project valuation, volume/price/mix analysis, trade promotions, and advertising spend.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of data and operate with a consumer-focused mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Results-driven with a sense of urgency and quick decision-making ability.
• Continuous improvement mindset and ability to learn new financial systems.
• Comfort with ambiguity and high degree of autonomy.
• Advanced Excel skills, highly analytical, and detail-oriented.
• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC), and Power BI.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC), and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.