Job Details

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

Job Description Summary

The Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), will lead the financial planning and analysis for the Sales/Trade teams. The FP&A Manager will be responsible for overseeing the forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis processes, as well as providing strategic financial insights to support the organization's growth and profitability. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a deep understanding of financial management principles, in-depth trade management experience and a proven track record of driving process improvements. Approximately 60% of the time will be spent on supporting the Sales/Trade team and 40% supporting the broader FP&A team. The FP&A Manager will play a critical role in centralized reporting, analytics and modeling to support the entire FP&A team and gain visibility across the entire P&L and across our entire Meals, Snacks and Milk business. This position will report to the Director, FP&A.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the finance lead for the development of annual budgets, monthly S&OP forecasts, and long-range financial plans for the Sales/Trade team
• Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, risks and opportunities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of financial plans with strategic objectives.
• Partner with the Sales and Trade teams to ensure accurate trade forecasting/budgeting, timely event planning, and enhance trade reporting
• Ensure P&L trade reflects trade strategy and is optimized to deliver financial targets
• Enforce trade controls and serve as a trade governance lead
• Lead the monthly financial reporting process, including variance analysis and management reporting.
• Drive improvements in financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Leads financial trade R&O process to identify risks and opportunities and proactively identify solutions to mitigate risk and close gaps to plan
• Model P&L implications for Gap closers and finance lead for Incremental Funding Request process
• Serve as a key point of contact for customer profitability analysis and cost-to-serve modeling
• Drive process improvements in financial processes, systems, controls and reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency and accuracy
• FP&A liaison with cross-functional team in supporting our Meals and Sides, Snacks and Milk business
• Support centralized FP&A reporting, analysis and modeling to support FP&A
• Critical business partner to cross-functional team and the broader FP&A team
• Ad-hoc financial analyses and reports to FP&A leadership to facilitate decision-making

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably with an emphasis in business, economics, finance, or accounting
• 5 to 7 years of financial analysis, product line and portfolio management, or related experience in a fast-moving CPG company (preferably supporting Marketing, Sales, or Operations)

Specific Competencies

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (including spreadsheets, database management, and presentations)
• Ability to work effectively in ERP systems and perform data mining to support the organization and cross-functional teams
• Strong knowledge of TPM systems and ability to perform event analysis to ensure proper trade management

Location & Travel

• Ability to travel a minimum of 3 days per month for business reviews and meetings, including air travel and overnight stays

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodation to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-borne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Eagle Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Eagle Foods also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Eagle Foods's policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.