Director of Finance Selling Margin (Hybrid: Onsite and Remote Work)

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The Director of Finance Selling Margin serves as the financial business partner to Senior Leadership Teams within Finance, Revenue Management, and Pricing. Additionally, this position is responsible for leading the planning, reporting, and forecasting processes for all of Selling Margin, including driver-based assumption development, target modeling, and initiative assessments. The role will drive accountability with functional leaders to ensure they meet their financial and operational objectives, in addition to providing actionable insights to into margin performance across the enterprise.

This position has been segmented as Hybrid meaning there is a combination of three onsite days per week and the rest remote.

Responsibilities: 

• Strategically partner with functional leaders to develop short and long-term financial and operational business initiatives that drive improved margins, while collaboratively leading implementation of the respective initiatives, and formalize processes for monitoring and tracking outcomes.
• Supports senior leadership and business partners in evaluating and communicating operating performance, including monthly results, understanding the risks/opportunities to achieving various organizational commitments.
• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure performance reporting provides key and meaningful insights to business drivers and highlights recommendations for potential opportunities and/or corrective actions that will ensure teams meet or exceed commercial and financial commitments.
• Build, develop, and maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, and dashboards that support key business reporting, while having a key focus on continuous improvement.
• Foster strategic relationships with key financial stakeholders within the organization, e.g. Field Finance, Controllers Group, and members of the financial ELT and SLT.
• Lead functional financial planning, analysis, and reporting processes including AOP, Forecast and LRP. Including collaboration with functional leaders on development and alignment on key assumptions, future business commitments, while driving accountability for timely delivery of key results.
• Conduct ad-hoc analysis and modeling as needed to support leadership and business partners’ understanding the drivers of business performance.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of market share performance, pricing trends and price differentials, market dynamics, and competitive landscape to help inform pricing decisions.
• Other duties as assigned by manager

Supervision:

• Leads a Manager and Sr Analyst

Relationships:

• Internal: Senior Leaders in Finance, Revenue Management, Pricing

• External: None

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must possess a minimum of 10 years of experience in Finance or other relevant area with focus on planning and analysis
• Minimum of 5 years people leadership
• Strong systems and technical experience required with advanced skills using MS Office Suite’s Excel and PowerPoint and experience querying data via SQL.

• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
• Ability to succinctly communicate insights to cross-functional stakeholders and guide them towards data-driven decisions
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills to a variety of audiences
• Able to organize their own work and meet deadlines, manages others and sets their priorities

• Regularly provides work that is accurate, thorough and consistent. Reviews work of others for completeness and accuracy and provides actionable feedback
• Collaborates well with team members and other work associates.  Leads team training and work improvements.  Provides coaching and feedback to grow team members
• Has strong working relationships with others. Able to manage interactions with all levels of the organization
• Up to 10% of travel.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Business or analytical field required (or related experience)

Preferred Qualifications:

• MA/MBA preferred

Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state minimum wage thresholds).  The expected base rate for this role is between

$110,000 - $180,000

***EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***