Finance Manager, Procurement

Blue Diamond Growers•Sacramento, CA

About The Position

The Finance “Co-Pilot” partners with business leaders to turn financial data into clear insights that improve decisions, performance, planning, and execution while maintaining financial discipline. This role challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and clarifies the financial impact of key decisions. This role specifically partners with Procurement Leadership to evaluate and support optimal sourcing, supplier, and spend-management decisions. This includes evaluating sourcing strategy development, financial analysis for supplier negotiations, contract reviews, strategic supplier performance and risk assessment, and analyzing financial performance such as purchase price variance, inflation, and productivity. The role also focuses on identifying, validating, and tracking cost savings opportunities, strengthening procedures around supplier spend, purchase commitments, and contract compliance. Additionally, it supports procurement-related cash flow forecasting and working capital management, including supplier payment terms, purchase commitments, and inventory impacts. The Finance Manager will partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate inventory replenishment strategies, balancing service levels, cost efficiency, and cash flow objectives.

Requirements

6–10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
Experience in a manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment.
Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data.
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Nice To Haves

MBA or CPA preferred

Responsibilities

Advise leaders on strategic, operational, investment, and capital decisions.
Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
Support forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and performance reviews.
Translate data into insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
Use COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions.
Deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.
Partner across functions, the COE, peer co-pilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with execution.
Reduce low-value ad hoc analysis by improving decision support, automation, and standard processes.
Quantify benefits, track savings, validate results, and bring finance input into discussions early.
Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity.
Balance financial rigor with practical business solutions.
Coach leaders and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability.
Improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
Partner with Procurement Leadership to evaluate and support optimal sourcing, supplier, and spend-management decisions.
Evaluate sourcing strategy development and financial analysis.
Support supplier negotiations, and contract reviews.
Assess strategic supplier performance and risk.
Analyze financial performance including Purchase price variance, inflation, and productivity with recommended corrective actions where necessary.
Identify, validate, and track cost savings opportunities.
Strengthen procedures around supplier spend, purchase commitments, and contract compliance.
Support procurement-related cash flow forecasting and working capital management, including supplier payment terms, purchase commitments, and inventory impacts.
Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate inventory replenishment strategies, balancing services levels, cost efficiency, and cash flow objectives.