Director of Finance – Customer Brands

Director of Finance – Customer Brands

Description

• Serves as a financial expert to the Customer Brands leadership on complex initiatives with strategic importance.
• Plans and directs the development and analysis of financial budgets, forecasts and strategic plans. Evaluate business trends and growth rates with related impact on business results. Provides recommendations to management for establishing and achieving profit objectives. Assesses alternatives and overall financial performance to suggest appropriate course of action.
• Oversee the preparation of all sales and marketing forecasts including monitoring item level forecasts.
• Finance leader for NPD process including evaluation of financial risks & opportunities considering Company strategic objectives. Bid leadership and development for all customer brands.
• Participates in the identification of key business issues, supports analysis of capital expenditures, and leads the reporting needs of Customer Brands as well as SBUs.
• Business Leadership Team (BLT) member, responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating activities, projects and programs for the BLT and for the Finance organization.
• Monitor business operations within Customer Brands to ensure proper accounting, including licenses, royalties agreements, customer pricing, trade spending, and marketing agreements.
• Builds strong, effective high-performance teams. Influences and motivates for strong performance. Improves the performance of others through coaching/feedback. Strengthens the quality of talent through assessment, selection, placing the right people in the right positions. Identifies and develops future leadership and improves overall bench strength.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting or related field. MBA, CPA or Certified
• Management Accountant preferred.
• 10+ years experience in financial management and strategic planning required.
• Knowledge – Through knowledge of financial planning and analysis, modeling and reporting. Must be knowledgeable of accounting systems and the delivery of business strategies.
• Skills – Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Oracle. Must possess strong communication, organization, problem-solving
• Abilities – Attention to detail and accuracy, ability to effectively leverage financial processes and manage priorities.
• Collaborative abilities in building business partnerships