Senior Manager, FP&A & Strategic Finance
About The Position
Stemilt is seeking a Senior Manager, FP&A & Strategic Finance to lead the company’s planning, forecasting, and decision-support function. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and the board, translating complex operating and financial data into clear insights on performance, capital allocation, financing, and strategic opportunities, including M&A. The position combines financial modeling and systems development with stakeholder presentations and team leadership. The Senior Manager will help shift Finance from primarily manual, spreadsheet-driven processes to more integrated, scalable, data-driven planning, reporting, and analytics. The role will lead evaluation and implementation of financial planning and reporting technology and serve as a bridge between Finance, IT, and external technology partners. The position provides direction to the FP&A Manager, with a focus on strengthening cost accounting and operational finance. As Stemilt and its Finance function mature, the role may grow into broader Director-level Finance leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 8–10+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance experience, including at least 5 years leading teams.
- Experience in private equity–backed and/or privately held, family-owned companies, including working with financially sophisticated investors or partners.
- Extensive experience preparing and delivering board-level presentations and materials.
- Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and sensitivity modeling.
- Extensive knowledge of cost accounting and multi-entity consolidated reporting.
- Understanding of capital structure, debt financing, and covenant compliance.
- Hands-on M&A experience, such as modeling, diligence, and integration.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
- Strong proficiency with BI and data visualization tools.
- Experience implementing or administering financial planning and reporting systems.
Nice To Haves
- MBA, CPA, or CFA.
- Experience in agriculture, food production, manufacturing, or other seasonal or commodity-driven industries.
- Experience with OneStream or a comparable CPM platform, such as Anaplan, Adaptive, or Planful, or ability to build and scale the tools a growing FP&A function needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual budget and long-range planning process across entities and business segments, partnering with operations, sales, and grower relations leaders.
- Own rolling P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow forecasts; explain variances and business drivers.
- Build and maintain driver-based models reflecting the seasonal, crop-dependent business, including volume, pack-out, pricing, and cost per box.
- Prepare board and ownership presentations, materials, and financial packages for majority owners and institutional stakeholders.
- Present financial results, forecasts, and strategic analyses to executive leadership and key stakeholders; respond to board and partner inquiries with accurate, supported analysis.
- Develop KPIs and dashboards that give leadership and the board a consistent view of performance.
- Build scenario analyses and sensitivity models showing how business and financial factors affect results and liquidity.
- Lead financial analysis for M&A, joint ventures, new entities, and major capital investments, including valuation, due diligence support, integration planning, and post-deal tracking.
- Support capital and debt structuring decisions, including covenant analysis, cash flow available for debt service, leverage modeling, and lender reporting.
- Partner with accounting leadership on cost accounting and product and customer profitability to support pricing and operating decisions.
- Champion planning, consolidation, and BI tools to automate reporting and improve forecast quality and speed.
- Lead implementation and optimization of FP&A and reporting technology.
- Develop data visualization and self-service reporting for organizational leaders.
- Serve as a key Finance partner in Stemilt’s Oracle E-Business Suite environment, including the upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, to support accurate planning and reporting.
- Lead, coach, and develop the FP&A team; set expectations, strengthen technical and business-partnering skills, and create growth paths.
- Promote accuracy, curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Work across Controllership, Treasury, Grower Accounting, and Operations to align data, processes, and priorities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
