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Job Title: Sr Finance Manager Schedule: 2 days in office per week/3 from home Location: Sacramento, CA Job Description The Sr Finance Manager serves as a strategic Finance CoPilot, partnering with business leaders to transform financial data into clear insights that drive better decisions, stronger performance, and disciplined execution. This role challenges assumptions, highlights risks and opportunities, and clarifies the financial impact of key decisions while maintaining robust governance and financial rigor. The Finance Manager leads forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and performance management, and plays a critical role in integrated business planning, pricing, and profitability optimization across product portfolios and markets. Responsibilities • Advise business leaders on strategic, operational, and tactical decisions by providing clear financial insights and recommendations. • Assess risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, business cases, return on investment (ROI), and scenario analyses to support informed decisionmaking. • Promote strong financial governance, internal controls, and finance acumen across the organization. • Lead forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and regular business performance reviews to ensure alignment with financial targets. • Translate financial and operational data into actionable insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve results. • Leverage Center of Excellence (COE) dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), financial models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis. • Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial narratives that support timely and effective decisions. • Partner with crossfunctional teams, the COE, peer finance copilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with operational execution. • Reduce lowvalue ad hoc analysis by enhancing decision support, automation, and standardized financial processes. • Quantify benefits, track savings, validate financial results, and ensure finance input is incorporated early in key business discussions. • Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity, while balancing financial rigor with practical business needs. • Coach and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen overall finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working. • Partner with leadership on key decisions involving contract pricing and sensitivities to changes in commodity and almond market values, contract durations and sales timing, and product portfolio decisions based on profitability. • Participate in weekly pricing meetings to provide financial perspective on pricing strategies and market dynamics. • Lead the finance role in Ingredients, Commodity, and International Branded Demand Review within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, evaluating forecasts against product availability and market conditions. • Identify risks and opportunities to the financial plan within the IBP process and define actions required to deliver financial commitments. • Lead monthly Financial Performance Management for relevant business units, including variance root cause analysis, performance versus incentive targets, rolling profit and loss (P&L) forecasts, sensitivity analysis, and recommendations to achieve or exceed net profit targets. • Provide weekly financial updates that highlight performance versus plan and identify levers or changes needed to achieve or exceed financial targets. • Lead the budgeting process for designated business units, including demand evaluation by product type and pricing by market and customer, while appropriately influencing and challenging assumptions. Essential Skills • Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or a combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience. • 610+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), or operational finance. • Proven experience in forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and financial performance management. • Strong experience in financial reporting, financial management, and cost analysis. • Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and build trusted partnerships with leaders. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial concepts into clear, actionable insights for nonfinance audiences. • Advanced analytical, financial modeling, and problemsolving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into concise conclusions. • Experience working in environments with fluctuating commodities and understanding of commoditydriven financial dynamics. • Proficiency in demand planning and integrating demand signals into financial plans. • Demonstrated business acumen with a strong focus on results and sound judgment in decisionmaking. • Ability to leverage dashboards, KPIs, and data tools (including COE and Data & Insights resources) to monitor performance and standardize analysis. • Experience partnering with sales and commercial teams to support pricing, contracts, and profitability decisions. Additional Skills & Qualifications • Experience in FP&A roles supporting integrated business planning (IBP) processes. • Experience in commoditybased businesses, ingredients, or agricultural products. • Experience providing financial support for international branded products, including pricing, promotions, and marketing investments. • Demonstrated strength in business process management and continuous improvement of finance processes and tools. • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop junior finance professionals. • Skills and attributes such as strong business acumen, a clear sense of vision and purpose, drive for results, ability to influence without authority, and sound judgment. • Interest in working within an organization focused on agriculture, food innovation, and commoditybased products. • Openness to ongoing professional development, including leveraging education assistance programs and other learning opportunities. Job Type & Location This is a Permanent position based out of Sacramento, CA. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $155000.00 - $185000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. 20% Bonus 3 Weeks Paid Vacation 401k, Medical, Dental, vision Job Type & Location This is a Permanent position based out of Sacramento, CA. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Oct 28, 2026. Workplace Type This is a hybrid position in Sacramento,CA. About Aston Carter Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options. San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.

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Advise business leaders on strategic, operational, and tactical decisions by providing clear financial insights and recommendations.
Assess risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, business cases, return on investment (ROI), and scenario analyses to support informed decisionmaking.
Promote strong financial governance, internal controls, and finance acumen across the organization.
Lead forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and regular business performance reviews to ensure alignment with financial targets.
Translate financial and operational data into actionable insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve results.
Leverage Center of Excellence (COE) dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), financial models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions and deliver clear financial narratives that support timely and effective decisions.
Partner with crossfunctional teams, the COE, peer finance copilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with operational execution.
Reduce lowvalue ad hoc analysis by enhancing decision support, automation, and standardized financial processes.
Quantify benefits, track savings, validate financial results, and ensure finance input is incorporated early in key business discussions.
Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity, while balancing financial rigor with practical business needs.
Coach and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen overall finance capability and improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
Participate in weekly pricing meetings to provide financial perspective on pricing strategies and market dynamics.
Lead the finance role in Ingredients, Commodity, and International Branded Demand Review within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, evaluating forecasts against product availability and market conditions.
Identify risks and opportunities to the financial plan within the IBP process and define actions required to deliver financial commitments.
Provide weekly financial updates that highlight performance versus plan and identify levers or changes needed to achieve or exceed financial targets.
Lead the budgeting process for designated business units, including demand evaluation by product type and pricing by market and customer, while appropriately influencing and challenging assumptions.
Essential Skills
Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or a combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience.
610+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), or operational finance.
Proven experience in forecasting, budgeting, longrange planning, and financial performance management.
Strong experience in financial reporting, financial management, and cost analysis.
Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and build trusted partnerships with leaders.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial concepts into clear, actionable insights for nonfinance audiences.

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Dental

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401k

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