What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager Commerical Finance position at Pinnacle Search Partners?
Our client is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of brands that includes some of the leading names in its industry.
The company seeks a Commercial Finance Manager/Senior Manager with a strong analytical mindset to play a crucial role in aligning sales, marketing, and manufacturing operations to ensure a robust Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and provide key insights to support business decisions in a DTC company.
The company CFO, whom we’ve known for years, is OUTSTANDING and highly values this role. You will have high visibility in this position with strong ties to Division and Corporate Leadership. If you'd like to learn more, please reach out!
Key Position Responsibilities
- Lead financial modeling and data analysis to drive strategic decision-making.
- Provide insights on marketing spend effectiveness, with a strong understanding of the drivers influencing the chosen media mix model and its impact on business performance.
- Develop and refine multi-channel financial strategies across DTC, marketplace, and wholesale.
- Support Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) by collaborating with sales, marketing, and operations teams to balance supply and demand.
- Drive forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, ensuring financial targets are met while identifying opportunities for operational efficiencies.
- Act as a trusted partner to the divisional leadership and the Marketing team.
- Present financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership using data-driven analysis.
Professional & Personal Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), with a strong focus on commercial finance.
- Highly analytical mindset, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Expertise in financial modeling and data-driven decision-making, grounded in strong accounting foundation to ensure accuracy and strategic financial insights.
- Understanding of marketing spend dynamics and media mix model to maximize revenue growth, and drive higher EBITDA.
- Experience in a multi-channel business, deep understanding of DTC, marketplace, or wholesale is a must.
- Ability to partner with operations and manufacturing teams to contribute to an effective S&OP process.
- Background in consumer goods, retail, or e-commerce is a must.
- Excellent communication and business partnering skills to work cross-functionally with marketing, sales, and operations teams.
