Senior Finance Manager, Sales Finance
Fiskars GroupAbout the role
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FISKARS
Senior Finance Manager – Sales Finance
Location: Middleton, WI (Hybrid)
At Fiskars Group, we believe great products start with great decisions—and strong financial insight plays a critical role in shaping those decisions.
We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager – Sales Finance to serve as a strategic partner to our Americas Sales organization. In this role, you will help drive profitable growth across approximately $250M in annual revenue, providing financial leadership, commercial insights, and decision support for key retail customers and strategic initiatives.
You’ll collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and Operations to guide pricing strategy, forecasting, customer profitability, and trade investment governance. This role also leads a team of Finance Analysts and plays a key role in shaping the financial strategy behind our customer partnerships.
If you enjoy connecting financial insights to real business outcomes and influencing commercial strategy, we’d love to meet you.
What You’ll Do
Be a Strategic Partner to Sales
- Act as the primary finance partner to regional sales leadership and key strategic retail customers
- Provide financial modeling and scenario analysis to support customer negotiations, pricing, and promotions
- Lead analysis on customer and channel profitability to guide commercial decisions
Drive Forecasting, Planning & Insights
- Own the sales financial forecast, including annual budget and rolling forecasts
- Align financial forecasts with sales plans and S&OP demand planning
- Monitor sales, margin, trade spend, and selling costs vs. forecast and deliver actionable variance insights
Lead Pricing & Profitability Analysis
- Drive price-volume-mix (PVM) analysis and margin performance tracking
- Partner with Supply Chain Finance and Operations to evaluate pricing and cost actions
- Identify opportunities to improve margin performance and reduce commercial margin leakage
Oversee Trade Investment Governance
- Ensure financial integrity of customer programs including rebates, promotions, and trade funding
- Manage accruals, reconciliations, and reporting for trade investments
- Partner with Accounting and AR to maintain strong financial controls
Improve Customer Deductions & Claims Management
- Provide dotted-line leadership to the Deductions Manager
- Support initiatives to improve claim resolution and root cause analysis
- Lead cross-functional efforts to reduce customer fines, shortages, and compliance deductions
Lead & Develop the Sales Finance Team
- Manage and develop a team of three Finance Analysts
- Provide coaching, development, and performance management
- Drive improvements in financial processes, reporting, and analytics tools
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field (MBA a plus)
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or Commercial Finance
- Experience partnering with Sales or commercial teams, ideally within consumer products or retail
- Proven experience leading teams and cross-functional initiatives
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Deep understanding of pricing strategy, trade investment, and margin drivers
- Experience with customer profitability analysis
- Advanced skills in Excel and financial systems (SAP, Power BI, HFM preferred)
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
Last day of application:
2026-04-29*****
At Fiskars, we value providing benefits that matter to you and cater to our diverse global workforce, no matter where you are in the world. While benefits may vary based on location, here are some of the incredible offerings you can expect when joining our team:
Competitive Compensation: We ensure that our employees are fairly compensated based on industry standards and local market factors.
Health and Wellness: Your well-being matters to us, no matter where you are. We offer various health and well-being focused programs and coverage, adapted to the requirements of each region.
Work-Life Balance: We understand the need for balance in your life. Our paid time off
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