Vice President, Finance

Quirch Foods•Coral Gables, FL

23h

About The Position

The Vice President, Finance serves as the primary finance partner to Sales and commercial leadership and partners closely with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations. The role leads financial planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, performance management, and decision support across these functions. It evaluates commercial opportunities, sourcing decisions, operational performance, and capital investments, while improving the quality and usefulness of financial data and reporting. The position also builds and leads a high-performing finance team, develops finance talent, and promotes accountability, continuous improvement, and fact-based decision-making. It works with Accounting to ensure operational and commercial activity is accurately reflected in financial results and internal controls, and supports enterprise initiatives, acquisitions, integrations, and other strategic projects as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Typically, 12 or more years of progressive finance experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience supporting Sales, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations in a complex operating environment.
Strong background in financial planning and analysis, pricing, customer and product profitability, cost accounting, operational finance, and working-capital management.
Proven ability to evaluate commercial contracts, sourcing decisions, capital investments, and operational improvement opportunities.
Strong financial modeling, data analysis, forecasting, and performance-reporting capabilities.
Experience improving finance processes, systems, reporting tools, and data quality.
Track record of building teams and influencing senior leaders without relying solely on formal authority.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent qualification.
Experience in manufacturing, distribution, logistics, business services, or another operationally intensive industry.
Food experience.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary finance partner to Sales and commercial leadership, supporting pricing, negotiations, contract economics, bids, promotions, and commercial decisions.
Own the customer and product profitability framework and deliver recurring profitability reporting; identify margin leakage and partner with Sales, Procurement, and Operations on corrective actions.
Apply profitability and cost-to-serve analysis to pricing, portfolio management, customer negotiations, product rationalization, and resource allocation.
Evaluate revenue growth opportunities and establish financial guardrails for pricing, discounts, rebates, commissions, and commercial terms.
Lead revenue, gross-margin, and sales forecasting; monitor performance, identify variances and risks, improve pipeline visibility, and support sales incentive design and measurement.
Provide financial analysis for new products, customers, markets, and strategic partnerships.
Partner with Procurement on sourcing strategies, supplier economics, cost-reduction initiatives, supplier proposals, contract terms, total cost of ownership, and make-versus-buy decisions.
Measure purchase-price variance, material inflation, freight, duties, rebates, and realized savings; support supplier negotiations with financial analysis and scenario modeling.
Assess supplier concentration, commodity exposure, lead-time risk, and other vulnerabilities; validate savings and ensure they are reflected in forecasts and results.
Partner with Procurement and Operations to optimize inventory, payment terms, and working capital.
Partner with Operations leadership and develop operational performance reporting covering productivity, labor, utilization, throughput, downtime, quality, and cost-to-serve.
Improve visibility into unit economics, standard costs, overhead absorption, and operational variances; identify root causes of performance gaps and develop measurable action plans.
Lead financial evaluation and post-investment review of capital expenditures, automation, capacity expansion, and process-improvement initiatives.
Support capacity planning, footprint decisions, and network optimization; strengthen inventory forecasting, reserves, obsolescence, cycle-count performance, and inventory turns.
Promote consistent operational and financial metrics across sites, functions, and business units.
Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning for Sales, Procurement, and Operations; integrate demand, procurement assumptions, operating capacity, labor, capital needs, and cash-flow implications into forecasts.
Develop driver-based financial models and scenario analyses; create management reporting that connects results to commercial and operational drivers.
Establish KPIs, targets, and accountability mechanisms; provide decision-oriented reporting to executive leadership and the Board as required.
Identify risks and opportunities early and reflect them in forecasts and operating plans; improve financial data speed, accuracy, and usefulness through stronger processes, systems, and analytical tools.
Build and lead a high-performing finance team and develop finance talent through coaching, clear expectations, and exposure to business decisions.
Build strong working relationships across Sales, Procurement, Operations, Accounting, and other functions; bring financial discipline while remaining practical, responsive, and solutions-oriented.
Champion accountability, continuous improvement, and fact-based decision-making; support enterprise initiatives, acquisitions, integrations, and strategic projects as needed.
Partner with Accounting to ensure operational and commercial activity is accurately reflected in financial results and internal controls.