Senior Finance Manager

About the role

The Sr Finance Manager serves as a strategic Finance CoPilot, partnering with business leaders to transform financial data into clear insights that drive better decisions, stronger performance, and disciplined execution. This role challenges assumptions, highlights risks and opportunities, and clarifies the financial impact of key decisions while maintaining robust governance and financial rigor. The Finance Manager leads forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and performance management, and plays a critical role in integrated business planning, pricing, and profitability optimization across product portfolios and markets.

This is a permanent, hybrid position based out of Sacramento, CA.

Responsibilities

• Advise business leaders on strategic, operational, and tactical decisions by providing clear financial insights and recommendations.
• Assess risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, business cases, return on investment (ROI), and scenario analyses to support informed decisionmaking.
• Promote strong financial governance, internal controls, and finance acumen across the organization.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and regular business performance reviews to ensure alignment with financial targets.
• Translate financial and operational data into actionable insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve results.
• Leverage Center of Excellence (COE) dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), financial models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
• Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial narratives that support timely and effective decisions.
• Partner with crossfunctional teams, the COE, peer finance copilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with operational execution.
• Reduce lowvalue ad hoc analysis by enhancing decision support, automation, and standardized financial processes.
• Quantify benefits, track savings, validate financial results, and ensure finance input is incorporated early in key business discussions.
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity, while balancing financial rigor with practical business needs.
• Coach and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen overall finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Partner with leadership on key decisions involving contract pricing and sensitivities to changes in commodity and almond market values, contract durations and sales timing, and product portfolio decisions based on profitability.
• Participate in weekly pricing meetings to provide financial perspective on pricing strategies and market dynamics.
• Lead the finance role in Ingredients, Commodity, and International Branded Demand Review within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, evaluating forecasts against product availability and market conditions.
• Identify risks and opportunities to the financial plan within