Director, Finance – Market Operations

Company: Breakthru Beverage

Location: Cicero, IL

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Overview

The Director, Finance – Market Operations is responsible for operational and financial reporting, development and reporting of Key Performance Indicators, operational analysis, network optimization, transportation, distribution & warehousing, return on assets and continuous operational improvement for Market Operations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for operational and financial reporting, development and reporting of Key Performance Indicators, operational analysis, network optimization, transportation, distribution & warehousing, return on assets and continuous operational improvement.
  • Analyze monthly financial results from both a P&L and metric basis and work closely with finance regional leads to provide variance and gap analysis and align on opportunities to drive improvements.
• Support operational business partners. Align and standardize reporting, processes, KPIs, etc. across U.S. operations.
• Direct the development of new tools, processes and projects that enhance the Operations across the U.S. Markets. Specific focus areas could include:
  • Month-end high to low level financials statements specific to operations that are consistent across all markets.
  • Trending on results for each market, current year, previous year, two years back, forecast.
  • Operations Activity Based Costing Budget Template.
  • Indirect Spend tracking and reporting on non-compliance / budget overages.
  • SKU / Supplier review process analyzing fully loaded costs to determine true profitability of supplier / SKUs.
  • AOP Planning, templates, create business cases for initiatives, track/trend investments and results.
• Lead Capital Planning Model and track spend and payback vs targets.
• Analyze Inventory across all markets and make efficiency recommendations to markets.
  • Inventory Reporting, Analysis:
    • ABC analysis for pick locations (Velocity Reporting)
    • Beer Code / Rotation Reporting
    • Breakage / Shrinkage Analysis
    • Loss Prevention Reporting
    • Inventory Accuracy Reporting (shorts, mispicks, out of stocks, etc.)
• Finance partner to support, validate and influence major cross functional initiatives and liaison with operations teams on financial impacts.
• Implementing systems, training on finance expectations at each individual site .
• Support M&A projects with pre work, modeling synergies, sensitivity scenario analysis, etc.
• Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent training and work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in accounting and/or finance.
• Advanced PC skills using MS Office and other various computer programs including presentation software.
• Must be a results-oriented professional with verbal/written communication skills using diplomacy and discretion as well as customer service skills.
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and/or within a team, pay attention to detail and meet deadlines.
• Analytic and reporting skills.
• Utilize sound judgement and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-volume, team environment.