FPA & Commerical Finance Manager
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly financial outlook.
- Develop management reporting and KPI dashboards.
- Analyze financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
- Prepare executive presentations highlighting financial trends and business risks.
- Perform ad hoc financial modeling and scenario analysis.
- Identify opportunities to improve gross margin across customers and products.
- Analyze manufacturing, ingredients, packaging, labor, freight, and overhead cost trends to identify margin improvement opportunities.
- Monitor pricing realization versus approved pricing.
- Track margin improvement initiatives and measure financial results.
- Recommend corrective actions for underperforming accounts.
- Develop and maintain controls that prevent revenue leakage and ensure all billable activities are captured.
- Ensure all customer billings, including contractual pass-through charges and value-added services, are invoiced accurately and on time.
- Review contracts to verify pricing and billing compliance.
- Partner with Customer Service and Accounting to resolve billing discrepancies.
- Monitor chargebacks, deductions, rebates, and customer credits.
- Perform reconciliations of customer-owned inventory, customer-supplied materials, and zero-cost goods to ensure accurate inventory balances and customer billings.
- Support reconciliation of customer-provided ingredients and packaging.
- Investigate inventory variances and billing differences.
- Coordinate with Operations and Customer Service to resolve discrepancies.
- Ensure contractual obligations related to customer-owned inventory are accurately tracked.
- Serve as the financial business partner to Sales by supporting customer negotiations, pricing strategies, contract reviews, and profitability analysis.
- Support Procurement with sourcing decisions and cost analysis.
- Work closely with Operations to understand manufacturing cost drivers.
- Assist Accounting during month-end close by explaining significant margin and cost variances.
- Support or lead ERP enhancements, reporting automation, and process improvement initiatives that improve financial visibility and decision-making.