Chief Financial Officer North America

Company Description

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands—Jack Link’s®, Lorissa’s Kitchen®, Golden Island®, BiFi®, and Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few—there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY

As a key member of the North America Senior Leadership Team, the Chief Financial Officer North America will report to the North America President and holds a strategic role in supporting the North America Jack Link’s business. Primary day-to-day responsibility will be for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities of the North America Business. This will include direct responsibility for accounting, Capital Expenditures, FP&A, strategic planning, cash collection, plant controlling across 12 facilities, and master data with regular communications to the advisory board, leadership teams, and total business. In addition, the CFO oversees and manages the Finance Team within the North America business.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with the North America leadership team to lead all aspects of business performance, providing clear analytics and reporting and where appropriate action plans to accelerate wins or address issues. 
• Lead and deliver regular performance reporting for the global executives, with clear financial updates and selecting and delivering deep dives on appropriate topics to drive understanding and action. 
• Support business-first decision making on new initiatives, including new customers or products, innovation, or brand value engineering.  This requires a strong cross-functional mindset and will not always be about a finance-first decision-making approach.
• Provide context and rigorous prioritization to help the business navigate multiple cross functional goals, align on key decisions and priorities, and then commit and lead through with regular reporting and analytics to show progress and course correct.
• Lead and build an Annual Operating Plan.
• Support and coach the organization through the design and build steps of a multi-year SAP S4 Hana roll out, leveraging opportunities to improve and standardize processes and manage organizational change within the organization. 
• Track and manage the investment of trade dollars across the commercial team, work with sales leadership to accurately reserve against activities, forecast future investment and optimize returns and outcomes against a complex commercial agenda.
• Support cost tracking, forecast and management across manufacturing sites, Brazilian manufacturing sites, a centralized warehouse, and various co-manufacturing facilities to ensure accurate cost information is provided to site leadership, to drive and deliver against a stretching Continuous Improvement agenda.  Work with site leaders to ensure agile and responsive changes are made where volume ramps up or down. 
• Liaison with management teams of internal divisions including Canada and Brazil to ensure consolidated financial results of North America organization are understood. 
• Support the ongoing tracking and forecasting of key commodity prices including the US meat market, transport and fuel prices, and key foreign exchange currency pairings, and risks and situational changes are understood and communicated to leadership, and working with procurement teams to map out strategic changes in buying to address existing or future risks.
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