NA Foods Customer Analytics - Associate Finance Manager

Unilever•Hoboken, NJ

1d•$88,600 - $133,000

About The Position

The Assistant Finance Manager – Customer Analytics serves as a finance partner to the Customer Development and Foods Business Unit. The role delivers financial analysis, manages Trade Terms Spend, supports forecasting, and provides customer-level profitability insights. It helps steward trade investment end-to-end, supports trade P&L forecasting, and provides visibility into performance, risks, opportunities, and resource allocation choices. The position partners with Customer Development, BU Category Leads, CS&P, CD Operations, and other cross-functional teams to support profitable growth, improve trade visibility, and strengthen financial controls across customers and categories. It supports trade investment decisions, trade spend governance, forecasting, reporting, financial control, business partnering, and continuous improvement across systems and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Five years of experience in Finance, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Customer Development Finance, or a related analytical finance role.
Strong analytical and financial modeling skills.
Advanced Excel proficiency.
Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail.
Ability to translate data into clear, meaningful business insights.
Effective business partnering and communication skills.
Ownership mindset and proactive approach to problem solving.
Continuous improvement mindset and willingness to learn.
Comfort working across systems, stakeholders, and financial processes to drive accuracy, transparency, and better decision-making.

Nice To Haves

Experience with planning, reporting, or analytics tools such as Evergreen, SASS, Pigment, PBCS, SAP, or Power BI.

Responsibilities

Partner with BU Category Leads, CS&P, and Performance Portfolio Management on trade investment decisions, scenario planning, ROI evaluations, and strategic guidance.
Provide forward-looking insights on performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended interventions.
Analyze trade effectiveness, promotional performance, customer investments, and ROI to guide resource prioritization across customers and categories.
Support monthly management, forecasting, and reporting of Trade Terms Spend.
Collaborate with CSP teams to review trade budgets, optimize spend, and track compliance with annual agreements.
Partner with CBD teams on Pigment trade reconciliation, resolving discrepancies and clarifying account-level trade over- or under-positions.
Monitor trade investment performance and identify risks, opportunities, and commercial levers affecting the total trade position.
Prepare and support trade accruals, forecasts, and customer P&Ls.
Support trade forecasting and the cash-up process in PBCS with CD Operations.
Investigate variances, identify anomalies, and support month-end close activities.
Maintain accurate financial reporting, data integrity, and audit-ready documentation for trade programs.
Partner with CD Operations to ensure correct financial flow to EG and proper accounting treatment for trade programs.
Provide actionable insights on sales, trade spend, customer profitability, volume forecasts, customer incentives, and commercial performance drivers.
Support customer negotiations, promotional analyses, and business case development.
Generate customer- and category-level analysis to inform performance understanding, category strategies, and trade allocation decisions.
Build partnerships with CBD, CS&P, Supply Chain, CD Operations, and BU stakeholders to support commercial decision-making.
Support system evolution and process enhancements across Pigment, PBCS, and ways of working.
Drive reporting simplification, process improvements, and improved trade transparency across Foods NA.
Contribute to forecasting accuracy, stronger trade controls, and effective business performance management.