Finance Manager - Foodservice Business Development

Job description

Reporting to the Director, Foodservice Finance; Business Development, you will lead trade performance management and planning while partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Category Finance to drive growth, strengthen margins through customer investment return on investment analyses, and modernize how Finance operates through automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence‑enabled tools. A Taste of Your Responsibilities: - Own end‑to‑end planning, forecasting, and management of trade expenditures, including promotion‑level investment strategy and execution - Lead period‑end close activities for trade spend and customer investments, ensuring timely journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and full SOX compliance - Deliver actionable trade spend analysis each month while partnering with Sales and Category Marketing to drive smarter, data‑backed investment strategies - Create sales plans that outline growth corridors and segment strategies to maximize margins on existing business and drive profitable new volume - Lead quarterly customer cost‑to‑serve insights, translating complex data into clear, action‑oriented recommendations for leadership - Lead SG&A expense reporting and c...