Associate Finance Manager - S&OP
About The Position
The Associate Finance Manager – S&OP will support the coordination and execution of the financial planning process across the US Ice Cream business. This role plays a critical part as the owner of financial data integrity within the planning systems, ensuring that the P&L accurately reflects business assumptions, inputs, and decisions. The Associate Finance Manager will validate that system entries, outputs, and reporting align with expected financial outcomes, as this serves as the foundation for all S&OP discussions and decision-making. The S&OP space is accountable for bridging P&L movements across forecast, actuals, and planning cycles, while providing clear insights, identifying risks/opportunities, and supporting value creation actions to deliver business targets. This role exposes you to most areas of the business in which you will partner with Finance Business Partners, Brand teams, Customer Analytics and Supply Chain to ensure strong integration across the S&OP process and enable high-quality decision making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- 3+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, business partnering, or financial planning
- Strong analytical and financial modelling capabilities
- Excellent communication skills with ability to simplify and clearly articulate insights
- Experience working cross-functionally with non-finance stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and work in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Strong attention to detail combined with a big-picture mindset
- Thinks end-to-end and takes ownerships for results
- Is comfortable working in a fast-moving, evolving organization
- Values collaboration, clarity and low-ego ways of working
- You’re a dot-connector: You link financial outcomes to operational drivers and translate complexity into clear insights
- You’re a changemaker: You proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and business performance
- You’re a strong collaborator: You build trust across teams and work effectively in a matrix organization
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity: You can navigate a fast-changing, high-growth environment
Nice To Haves
- Experience with financial/planning systems (e.g., Power BI, AFO, PBCS, Tagetik) preferred
Responsibilities
- Own financial integrity of the plan within planning systems
- Ensure the P&L in planning systems accurately reflects business assumptions, inputs, and decisions
- Validate that system outputs reconcile to expected results and serve as a reliable foundation for S&OP discussions
- Lead monthly forecasting & performance tracking
- Coordinate forecast cycles and bridge changes across Actuals, Forecast, and prior outlook
- Provide clear visibility to key drivers, risks, and opportunities
- Drive S&OP financial integration
- Align Demand, Supply, and Financial plans to ensure a single, consistent view of performance
- Support preparation of financial content for S&OP and leadership forums
- Partner to deliver business outcomes
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Brand, Customer Analytics and Supply Chain to challenge assumptions and improve plans
- Support identification and tracking of actions to close gaps and improve profitability
- Continuously improve processes & tools
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and enhance forecasting and reporting processes
- Support system and digital transformation initiatives
Benefits
- Market-competitive pay and performance related rewards
- Flexible ways of working
- Support for health, wellbeing and life outside of work
- Time off to rest and recharge
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Medical, dental and (where applicable) vision coverage
- Health and wellbeing support, including employee assistance programs and wellness initiatives
- Health-related savings and spending accounts
- Retirement savings programs with a competitive matching plan
- Additional employee perks (e.g., corporate discounts, commuter or learning support)
- This position is bonus eligible.
- health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage)
- retirement savings benefits
- life insurance and disability benefits
- parental leave
- sick leave
- paid vacation and holidays
- access to numerous voluntary benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
