Finance Lead, Category Finance – Cheese

The Kraft Heinz Company•Chicago, IL

5d•$141,500 - $176,900•Onsite

About The Position

As a Cheese Category Finance Lead at Kraft Heinz, you will play a critical role in bridging finance execution and platform-level strategic decision-making across the Cheese business. This role stays close to core forecasting, planning, and performance routines, while also creating the space and expectation to translate category insights into platform recommendations, shape priorities, and strengthen decision support for leadership. You will lead platform finance integration, coach and develop manager-level talent, and help turn business performance into clear actions that improve execution, visibility, and longer-range planning.

Requirements

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field
Demonstrate 6-8+ years of finance experience, including meaningful experience in forecasting, planning, and cross-functional business partnership
Exhibit strong financial analysis, forecasting, and planning capabilities, with advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills, and the ability to connect detailed outputs to broader business implications and recommendations
Communicate clearly and effectively across cross-functional teams, with the ability to frame issues, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations for leadership audiences
Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in complex, fast-moving business environments
Show the ability to move beyond executional ownership into business integration, strategic thinking, and proactive decision support
Demonstrate the ability to coach and develop others, improving quality, ownership, and consistency across a team
Show strong organizational judgment and prioritization, with the ability to manage competing demands while maintaining focus on the highest-value work

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
Experience in consumer goods, food, or a similarly fast-paced commercial environment
Experience partnering across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, RGM, and central finance stakeholders
Experience supporting innovation, investment decisions, margin improvement, and cross-functional planning processes
Familiarity with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or equivalent

Responsibilities

Lead platform finance integration across the Cheese business, connecting core financial routines across forecasting, planning, and performance management to clearer platform-level priorities, decisions, and actions
Coach and direct two Category Finance Managers, guiding and strengthening manager-level work by strengthening the quality of outputs, consistency of execution, and strength of recommendations while improving prioritization and execution across the platform
Partner with platform leadership on strategic planning, innovation, CAPEX prioritization, and margin improvement opportunities, helping connect near-term business choices to longer-term platform priorities
Lead key planning and performance routines that require cross-category integration, including 1YP, Quarterly Sufficiency Reviews, and other non-monthly business processes
Translate category-level risks, opportunities, and business drivers into clear platform-level recommendations that support faster, stronger leadership decisions
Act as a visible finance leader across the business by driving alignment on assumptions, surfacing tradeoffs, and framing actions clearly for cross-functional partners
Develop leadership-ready materials that simplify complex financial and business information into clear implications, recommendations, and next steps
Support business reviews and planning discussions by integrating category outputs into a broader platform point of view and helping shape the actions that follow
Strengthen tools, routines, and ways of working to improve forecast explainability, decision quality, and execution speed across the Cheese platform
Help define clearer ownership, stronger coordination, and more effective handoffs across the finance team and cross-functional partners

Benefits

medical, dental and vision coverage
7% 401(k) matching
Business Resource Groups (BRGs)
industry-leading total rewards package that emphasizes a high discretionary bonus
Coverage for benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.
Coverage for employees (and their eligible dependents) through affordable access to healthcare, protection, and saving for the future, we offer plans tailored to meet you and your family’s needs.
Physical - Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
Social - Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
Emotional – Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
Financial – 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability