Manager, Finance

About the role

The Manager, Sales Controlling & Pricing — Americas owns sales controlling and pricing for BPU Americas within the Gardena division of Husqvarna Group, including Orbit and Gardena business in the Americas. This role serves as a trusted finance partner to Sales and Commercial leadership on margin, pricing integrity, business performance, and planning while building the analytical capability of a small team.

Responsibilities

• Act as the day-to-day finance partner to Americas Sales and Commercial leadership, translating commercial plans and decisions into financial impact.
• Own monthly and quarterly forecasting and variance analysis for the Americas channel, feeding into the broader BPU planning cycle.
• Contribute the Americas commercial view to annual budgeting and long-range planning.
• Own resolution of pricing queries from Sales and customer-facing teams; ensure pricing governance and accuracy across price lists, trade terms, and customer agreements.
• Lead margin bridge analysis by customer, channel, and SKU; quantify margin risk and profitability opportunities related to price, mix, and cost.
• Support price increase execution and profitability assessment for new item launches.
• Ensure harmonized pricing across different sales channels and align local processes with divisional pricing processes.
• Own KPI reporting and tracking for Americas sales performance, including sell-in/sell-out, customer profitability, channel, and category trends.
• Investigate root causes of variances versus plan and drive corrective action with commercial stakeholders.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of two analysts; set priorities and build pricing and controlling capability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; master’s degree preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, controlling, or pricing analytics, ideally in a branded consumer or industrial products company selling through both retail and distribution channels.
• 2+ years of people leadership experience.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Demonstrated experience business partnering directly with Sales and Commercial leadership.
• SQL, BI tooling, or data warehouse experience preferred.