FP & A Manager

Description: The FP&A Manager is a key business partner to Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, and the Executive Team. This role owns financial planning, forecasting, manufacturing performance analytics, and decision support across a multi‑technology snack manufacturing environment. The FP&A Manager ensures financial accuracy, drives margin improvement, and supports strategic growth initiatives.

FP&A is the financial engine that enables profitable, data‑driven decision‑making across the commercial, operational, and supply‑chain footprint. In a multi‑technology snack environment (extrusion, baking, frying, packaging), FP&A translates operational complexity into clear financial insight, ensuring growth, margin expansion, and disciplined capital allocation.

Department: Finance

Reports To: Finance Controller

Education and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field required 
• 5–8+ years of FP&A, cost accounting, or manufacturing finance experience
• Operationally fluent understands line economics, yields, throughput, and bottlenecks
• Proficiency with financial systems, ERP tools, and BI/reporting platforms
• Strong Excel and modeling Skills
• Comfort working across multiple data sources and technologies
• Commercially savvy can model pricing, trade spending, and customer profitability
• Strategic sees the big picture and quantifies the financial implications of choices
• Detail‑oriented ensures accuracy in costing, forecasting, and reporting
• Influential- partners effectively with Operations, Sales, and Supply Chain
• Experience in food manufacturing, CPG, or multi‑technology production environments preferred
• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel/Power BI capability
• Ability to translate operational data into financial insight
• Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, growth‑oriented environment

Work Hours:

• 40-45 hours per week (Monday - Friday):
• Office Standard Hours: Between 7:00am - 5:00pm
• Occasional time required on second and third shifts
• Considered on call 24/7 when plant is operating

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment.  This role utilizes standard office equipment (i.e. computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines) and requires some work to be completed on the factory floor. Occasional travel is required.   

Physical Demands:

• Hearing and speaking to exchange information
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate equipment
• Reaching overhead, above shoulders and horizontally
• Bending at the waist, kneeling, sitting, or crouching
• Ability to walk and stand-up during shift

Competencies:

• Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Ability to interpret complex financial and operational data. Connects financial insights to business strategy
• Financial Acumen: Deep understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes Expertise in P&L management, balance sheet dynamics, and cash flow forecasting

Strong knowledge of cost accounting and manufacturing economics

• Business & Commercial Insight: Ability to evaluate pricing, margin performance, and customer profitability. Understanding of commercial terms, cost-to-serve, and quote validation. Capability to assess capital investments and business cases

• Operational & Manufacturing Understanding: Familiarity with production processes, cost drivers, and capacity constraints. Ability to translate operational data into financial insights and actions.

• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to build, simplify, and enhance management reporting Skilled at influencing without authority. Ability to partner effectively with Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, and Leadership. Ability to translate data into clear, actionable narratives

Core Responsibilities:

Financial Planning & Forecasting:

• Supports the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, and monthly outlooks.
• Build revenue, margin, and cost forecasts by channel, customer, and product line.
• Prepare executive‑level reporting packages with clear insights and recommendations.
• Helps quantify strategic choices: automation, new technologies, SKU rationalization, and route‑to‑market shifts.
• Identifies working‑capital opportunities: safety stock, slow‑moving inventory, payment terms.

 Manufacturing & Costing:

• Maintain and improve standard costs, BOMs, routings, and labor/overhead standards.
• Partner with Operations to analyze OEE, yield, scrap, downtime, and labor efficiency.
• Track conversion cost per pound and SKU‑level profitability and cost per shift
• Support continuous improvement initiatives with financial impact modeling.
• Maintains standard costs and cost models across all technologies.
• Translates OEE, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, and downtime into financial impact.
• Provides daily/weekly flash reporting and variance analysis.
• Builds and maintains standard costs for each technology (extrusion, baking, frying, packaging etc)
• Tracks conversion cost per pound, cost per shift, and cost per SKU.
• Provides daily/weekly flash reporting to highlight variances and emerging risks.
• Works with Procurement to model inventory optimization and working capital requirements and efficiency

Commercial Finance:

• Leads & Integrates financials into the S&OP process.
• Supports pricing decisions with SKU‑level margin analysis and customer profitability.
• Build level P&Ls and support new customer pitches with financial models.
• Partners with Sales on pricing and customer profitability.
•  Builds rolling revenue and margin forecasts by channel.

Strategic & Capital Planning:

• Support long‑range planning, scenario modeling, and strategic decision analysis.
• Supports the evaluation of capex projects with ROI, payback, and NPV analysis.

Corporate Finance & Controls:

• Prepares board‑ready financial packages and scenario models.
• Ensure financial accuracy, GAAP compliance, and strong internal controls.
• Support audits and maintain documentation for costing and financial processes.

Other:

• Follow and enforce all OSHA Safety Regulation and Safety Rules.
• Utilize knowledge and research methods to benchmark materials, planning activities and to drive best practice results
•  Work towards and support a culture of continuous improvement and work to make business and department improvements wherever possible
• Responsible for following all food safety policies, procedures and regulatory criteria including Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.  Duties, responsibilities and activities may change any time with or without notice. Additional duties may be required by management that are not included on this list