Finance Manager, A&P Business and Process

Job Summary

The Finance Manager, Advertising & Promotional (A&P) Business and Process supports A&P spend planning, monitoring, and analysis. Key responsibilities include enhancing the A&P system, simplifying processes, improving data quality, partnering with cross-functional teams, and enabling business users.

Who Will Love This Job

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys being a finance partner for systems, process, and data. They should enjoy improving workflows, raising data quality, and making tools easier for teams to use. Strong relationship-building and communication skills are essential, along with a structured approach and follow-through.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the A&P systems expert from a finance lens by maintaining and enhancing the A&P system.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Information Technology to control and prioritize enhancements.
• Secure funds and resources for system implementations, qualification, and validation.
• Project manage enhancement development and testing, including leading User Acceptance Testing.
• Own change management related to enhancements and system updates, including communications, adoption support, and readiness for changes.
• Support A&P business planning and process activities by building and maintaining the A&P planning template.
• Enable business users day-to-day by acting as the subject matter expert for budget maintenance, invoicing, purchase orders, and reporting.
• Lead weekly A&PO Office Hours to troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain documentation and training by keeping A&P materials up-to-date and ensuring ongoing training for users and new hires.
• Partner with global teams to ensure alignment on taxonomy, strategic intent, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in finance FP&A, finance reporting, or financial systems with career progression.
• Proven experience driving improvements in process and ways of working across stakeholders (project management experience strongly preferred).
• High level of comfort navigating and managing financial data, with a focus on data quality and consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and partner cross-functionally to balance stakeholder priorities and needs.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills; able to drive collaboration and communicate at all levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.