Brand Finance Manager

Partner at IFG - International Financial Group - Chicago (Advisory Consulting & Recruiting) IFG's downtown client is growing and adding a FP&A Manager with consumer product (CPG) manufacturing experience. Qualified candidates will have experience over multiple product lines during their career. If you can manage the product margin profitability story, focused on product costing as well as packaging, shipping/distribution, and warehouse fulfillment costs, you may have found your new work home. Base pay range $120,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr Additional compensation types Annual Bonus Direct message the job poster from IFG USResponsibilities The FP&A Manager will analyze and forecast financial, operational, and other business data to provide accurate and timely information for strategic and operational decisions. Analyze data to support decision-making and provide insights to the commercial and supply chain teams Build and manage comprehensive financial models for the overall business and manufacturing environments, which will drive annual plans, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans; recommend updates to the budget and forecast and help identify ways to continually optimize our cost profile Manage the trade and promotion budget process Develop and manage departmental expense budgets, including regular tracking and reporting of actual results Actively participate in the Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process Perform multi-variable sensitivity and trend analyses to identify drivers and predictors of revenue and profitability growth Review and challenge customer revenue plans and support market distribution strategies Assist in the monthly close process and produce monthly financial reports vs. plan, prior year, and prior forecasts