Manager Financial Operations - Fort Collins, CO

Manager Financial Operations - Fort Collins, CO

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Reporting to the VP Global Vanilla, the role will directly support accounting and data analytics requirements of the business and finance organization. The role requires a deep understanding of manufacturing cost accounting, financial analysis, and workflow automation to assimilate multiple sources of information to guide critical accounting, manufacturing, sales, and strategy decisions. The position requires strong business, data analysis, and cost accounting acumen and will be required to effectively communicate and collaborate across all functional groups from management, sales, operations, supply chain, marketing, accounting, credit, procurement, and regulatory. This will be a highly visible role within a fast growing retail branded and CPG focused food ingredient business backed by one of the largest and most reputable global food ingredient companies.

Responsibilities include :

• Financial Analysis, Reporting and Actions : Partner with leadership, operations, and commercial teams to compile and analyze data for cost models, financial reports, position risk, and managerial dashboards.
• Utilize ERP systems like SAGE 500 to generate insights on sales trends, inventory levels, inventory aging, customer history, financial forecasting, contract / order statuses, TTB drawback, extraction yields, and production metrics.
• Help develop budgets and ensure the sales forecast and budget is updated monthly.
• Accounting Cost Management : Lead the annual review of actual vs. standard costing for manufacturing bill of materials. Collaborate with operations and commercial teams to adjust standards as needed, ensuring alignment with production realities and market conditions.
• Data Analytics and ERP Expertise : Develop proficiency in SAGE 500 to support accounting and data analytics tasks. Create and maintain comprehensive dashboards for tracking key performance indicators, including sales volumes, open orders, inventory positions, and actual vs. budget performance, in collaboration with IT and functional groups.
• Pricing Strategy and Management : Design and maintain a dynamic pricing matrix that integrates standard costs and allows for pricing sensitivity analysis. Develop retail product pricing guides in partnership with the B2C marketing team and VP Global Vanilla. Ensure accurate pricing records, BOM's for the commercialization of new items, packaging codes, and product-specific minimum order quantities in ERP systems.
• Process Improvement : Identify opportunities to enhance and automate workflow by developing and implementing new procedures and features. Support the VP Global Vanilla on ad hoc projects, such as special analyses or operational initiatives, to drive efficiency and strategic goals.
• Stakeholder Collaboration : Communicate pricing, product descriptions, and customer profile details with internal teams and external partners. Maintain accurate customer profiles, product characteristics, and off-site manufacturing cost structures to support consistent and transparent operations. Proactively assist in development of plans for utilization of slow moving inventory. Support leadership with ad hoc requests.

Minimum Education Required : High School / GED

Job Category : Finance

Additional Qualifications / Responsibilities :

Education Requirements : Bachelor's degree in finance related field, required. CPA or CMA certification is a plus.

Physical Requirements : Travel will be limited.

Additional Information : Relocation assistance is available for this position. This position offers a complete benefit package, including 401K / ESOP, pension, health, life and dental insurance.

The pay range for this position is expected to be between : $90,000.00 - $164,000.00. The total compensation package for this position will also include annual bonus.