Finance Manager- Global Ingredients & International Branded

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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Advise leaders on strategic, operational, and tactical decisions.
• Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
• Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and business performance reviews.
• Translate data into actionable insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Use Financial dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
• Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.
• Partner across functions and within Finance to align financial goals with execution.
• Reduce low-value ad hoc analysis by improving decision support, automation, and standard processes.
• Quantify benefits, track savings, validate results, and bring finance input into discussions early.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity while balancing financial rigor with practical business solutions.
• Coach leaders and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability; improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Partner with Global Ingredients Division leadership on key decisions to support optimum solutions, including contract pricing support and sensitivities to changes in almond market values; contract durations and sales timing; product portfolio decisions based on profitability; and weekly pricing meetings.
• Lead the finance role in Ingredients, Commodity & International Branded Demand Review (Integrated Business Planning - IBP), evaluating forecasts against product availability and market dynamics.
• Identify risks and opportunities to the financial plan with actions for delivery within the IBP process.
• Lead monthly Financial Performance Management for both Global Ingredients Division and International Branded, incorporating variance root cause analysis, performance versus incentive targets, rolling P&L forecasts and sensitivity analysis, and recommendations to achieve or exceed net profit targets.
• Provide weekly financial updates using financial and business acumen, identifying levers or changes required to achieve or exceed targets.
• Lead the Global Ingredients and International Branded budgeting process with appropriate influence and challenge, evaluating demand by product type and pricing by market/customer.
• Provide financial support to the International Branded team by evaluating pricing, promotional, and marketing activities.
• This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 6-10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders; excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
• Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data. Key skills include Business Acumen, Vision and Purpose, Drive for Results, Influence without Authority, and Sound Judgment.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• Experience partnering directly with sales teams in food ingredients, commodities, or a related manufacturing environment preferred; previous cost accounting experience would be beneficial.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• No direct-report count specified; role includes coaching leaders and mentoring junior finance team members.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Sitting for prolonged periods.
• Walking through warehouses and multiple buildings.
• Occasional bending and lifting.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Office environment, hybrid model 3 days in office as business needs
• Time spent in distribution and production areas.
• Exposure to dust, moisture, and hot/cold temperatures.

Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability

WHY BLUE DIAMOND?

In addition to working at the world's largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness GuideHERE .

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