Manager Sales Finance

Responsibilities

• Lead financial consolidation of trade spend across AOP, monthly forecasts, and month-end close to enable timely reconciliation, generate actionable insights, and strengthen cross-functional alignment.
• Owes the accrual, reconciliation, and execution of key controls supporting royalties and trade accounting processes.
• Main point of contact for quarterly and annual trade audit support.
• Prepares and analyzes financial sales reports, delivering accurate, timely insights on revenue performance, trends, and variances to support strategic decision-making and forecasting.
• Conducts complex analyses to support critical business decisions.
• Leads financial analysis for determining return on investment (ROI) and profit loss impact (P&L) of incremental trade investments.
• Communicates results, risks & opportunities, and complex financial analyses to both financial and business leaders to support and influence decision making.
• Champion the continuous evolution of tools, data visualization, and automation by driving the transformation of key processes and optimizing systems for greater efficiency and scalability.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities, develop recommendations, and lead end-to-end implementation.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to set targets and deadlines, develop plans, conduct analyses, measure results and improve processes.
• Consults with senior management to present data, propose solutions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develops innovative approaches to complex problems and situations.
• Conducts research including external benchmarking and utilizes statistical tools and scenario analysis to guide sound financial business decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or professional certification (CPA/CFA) preferred.
• 5 + years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or business analysis.
• Advanced skills in Excel and familiarity with financial systems (e.g., SAP, PowerBI).
• Ability to interpret and analyze financial statements and sales metrics.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Excellent business partnering and communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and present complex financial insights clearly.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.