The Finance Manager, HQ Sales Finance & Planning (SF&P) plays a critical role in leading the monthly FP&A, Trade & Performance Management processes across US Sales Divisions, delivering accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting and analysis to support planning accuracy and enterprise-level decision making. This role is highly cross-functional in nature, partnering closely with several cross-functional stakeholders, including Divisional SF&P Teams, Creamers, Ready-To-Drink, and Plant Based Categories Finance Teams, and the US FP&A team to deliver strong reporting, analytics and process implementation, while also serving as liaison with Trade Accounting to ensure accurate accounting treatment of trade accruals. The position includes one direct report and can be based in either White Plains, NY or Louisville, CO.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly FP&A Close reporting and consolidation cycle for all U.S. Sales Divisions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Partner with Division Sales Finance teams to manage trade budgets and balance sheet activity, ensuring alignment to financial plans and accounting standards.
• Serve as a key finance partner to the Creamers, Ready-To-Drink Coffee, and Plant Based Categories reporting on volume building blocks, trade spend, and variance analysis, and acting as a liaison between Category Finance, Division Sales Finance, and US FP&A teams.
• Partner closely with Trade Accounting to ensure accuracy and proper accounting treatment at month-end close.
• Implement process improvements through digitalization of routine financial reporting to drive efficiency, accuracy and free up time for ad-hoc impactful analysis
• Support action-oriented ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects on recurring basis to provide clarity and help drive business decisions
• Lead and develop one direct report, providing coaching, prioritization, and performance guidance.

The salary range for this position is $117,000-168,000 USD. The exact salary offered will depend on several factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, geographic location, internal equity, and market conditions.  Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options. To give our employees flexibility, Danone is a hybrid work environment.

This role is considered a “hybrid” position that allows for flexible work, meaning it is a role where collaboration with key stakeholders in Danone Hubs occurs. While you may have the option to work from home on a schedule as agreed to with your supervisor, you are also expected to regularly report to your assigned office location at least 3 days per week.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting (MBA preferred)
• 5-7+ years of progressive Corporate Finance experience, with increasing scope and responsibility ideally in CPG industry
• Demonstrated Sales Finance experience, ideally within a matrixed or multi-division environment.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, including trade accounting, accruals, and balance sheet management.
• Proficiency in Excel, with a demonstrated interest to leverage Power BI to digitalize, automate and enhance financial reporting and insights

Key Characteristics & Capabilities

• Strong willingness to learn and continuously grow technical and business knowledge.
• Comfortable digging into details to understand drivers, identify root causes, and ensure reporting accuracy.
• Ability to constructively challenge cross-functional partners, helping articulate business performance and improve financial transparency.
• You demonstrate a high degree of agility and strategic prioritization, and are effective at navigating shifting priorities in a fast-past finance environment
• Clear communicator with the confidence to influence while maintaining strong collaborative relationships.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Life at Danone

With approximately 5,000 employees and 13 production locations across the U.S., our vibrant culture and endless growth opportunities are just a couple of the reasons our employees call themselves “Proud Danoners.” 

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Our Brands

When you join us, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world, including Activia®, DanActive®, Danimals®, Dannon®, evian®, Follow Your Heart®, Happy Family® Organics, International Delight®, Light + Fit®, Nutricia ®, Oikos®, Silk®, So Delicious® Dairy Free, STōK® Cold Brew Coffee ®, Too Good & Co™, and YoCrunch®.

Our Purpose

We’re committed to making a positive impact on our world. Rooted in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to be the world’s largest B Corp.

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Our Benefits

Our commitment to making the world healthier starts with our employees. 

• Physical Wellbeing: We pay for the majority of your medical benefits – which include medical, dental and vision – with our competitive 80%/20% cost-sharing model.
• Mental Wellbeing: Danoners receive fitness discounts, unlimited flexible time off and hybrid work schedules. We also have a range of programs that support mental health and substance abuse.  
• Financial Support: We offer a performance-based bonus, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, employee discount programs and voluntary perks.
• Family Care: We offer caretaker benefits, 18 weeks of parental bonding, fertility, surrogacy, adoption benefits and pet insurance.

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Equal Opportunity Employer
Danone North America is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial and/or local law. For our EEO policy statement and your EEO rights under law click here.

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