Commercial Finance Manager

Palm Bay International • Port Washington, NY

18d • $90,000 - $130,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Commercial Finance Manager is a newly created position, reporting into the VP, Commercial Finance, that will be responsible for the execution of best practices for promotional and marketing budgets utilization. The role oversees a region’s P&L as well as specific brand groups at a national level, and will work closely with other commercial finance managers, distributor partners, sales leadership and brand portfolio managers to achieve optimization of investments and utilization of resources, program execution, KPIs, while balancing promotional and price actions. Location: Port Washington, NY (Hybrid 4 days in office)

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills, Excel a must
• Effective communication, verbal and in writing
• A clear understanding of financial principles and ratios
• Experience in the W&S industry with understanding of the three-tier system
• Experience with dashboarding in BI tools (either directly or through BI partners) - demonstrated ability to create dynamic analytical tools leveraging a variety of data sources a plus

Responsibilities

• Key thought-partner and advisor to the regional sales teams and VP Finance
• Maintain accountability for Regional spend accuracy within budget
• Provide business performance tracking and insights to key stakeholders
• Build ad-hoc “what-if” type analysis to support leadership decision making and conduct program post-analysis to evaluate ROI
• Present financial business reviews to division leadership and distributor partners
• Provide business performance tracking and insights to key stakeholders
• Coach market teams to make profitable decisions
• Management and oversight of Distributor investment
• Forecasting support
• Improve net sales performance by actively identifying strategic and tactical pricing optimization opportunities
• Plan and execute annual pricing plan including price increases driven by COGS, Gap to comp sets etc
• Conduct analysis of competitive activity in the market and recommend pricing counter tactics to commercial teams
• Ensure market compliance with brand pricing strategy through periodic market surveys/syndicated data analysis
• Operating income improvement at the regional level
• Optimization of Brand Plans execution vs budgets
• Deployment of best practices and effective workflows

Benefits

• Palm Bay International offers a competitive compensation package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(K), paid vacation, personal time off and 11 paid company holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees