Manager, Sales Finance

Description

Title: Manager, Sales Finance

Reports To: Head of Sales Finance

Location: Chicago, IL

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. 

From your PASSION to ours

As a Finance Manager, you’ll share your world-class analytical skills and passion for collaboration by partnering with our Sales Leaders to move key business strategies forward in the US Retail Channels. You will provide visibility into financial opportunities, ensure integrity of our financial statements, and measure financial profitability for our in-market investment and execution. While you are at it you will be building your network and expertise in a thriving environment of professional development and be an integral part of the US Retail Sales Team. Together we will build a stronger future for our company and your career. 

From your EXPERTISE to ours

• Partner & collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Ops & Planning team, Category Leadership team, and Shopper Marketing team
• Own Financial Reporting, supporting development of new processes and maintenance of existing tools and processes as well
• Drive automation of existing reporting in Power BI
• Facilitate the collection of routine commentary from the Sales organization monthly
• Deliver insights via meetings and emails to Executive Leadership monthly
• Evaluate financial viability/profitability, ramifications, and effectiveness of incremental funding requests, new product launches, pricing actions, promotional execution, optimization opportunities, customer specific analysis, and other ad hoc reporting and analysis
• Support preparation of joint business plan investment proposals or strategic investments and subsequent customer negotiations 
• Create customer & SKU level P&Ls to ensure ongoing profitability of SKUs within customers 
• Support Head of Sales Finance with annual planning and monthly P&L forecasting and reporting
• Develop and maintain financial controls to ensure visibility to and accuracy of the monthly trade spend forecast in relation to budget targets and the actual spend 

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
• 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Sales Finance, Revenue Management, Consulting, or Investment Banking; consumer package goods industry experience preferred
• Strong finance, sales, category planning and/or analytical background
• Comfortable working with large sets of data and dealing with ambiguity/murky data
• Experience with budgeting/planning/forecasting, analysis, and reporting
• Ability to effectively summarize complex information 
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• High emotional intelligence
• Critical thinker and problem solver who can turn insights into actions & results
• Ability to drive continuous process improvement
• Proven ability to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment 
• Someone who is independent, se