Plant Finance Manager

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About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of more than two dozen production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.  

What You Gain: 

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way. 

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups. 

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day 

• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll. 

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays). 

• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs.  

Job Description:

About the Role: 

The Plant Finance Manager provides the Plant Manager with the analysis, insights, and financial control support required at each plant. The Plant Finance Manager is a manager level finance position with responsibility for plant finance and analysis needs. This role will be part of the plant leadership team and will have responsibility for ensuring financial reporting needs are met, supporting continuous improvement projects, ensuring accounting transaction and maintaining forecast accuracy, along with performing local SOX controls. The position will report to the Area Finance Manager. 

As part of the Supply Chain finance organization, this position is responsible for supporting the financial goals of the plants, division and total THS, assisting with strategic and improvement initiatives, internal and external financial reporting, SG&A reporting, and ERP implementations. This includes, but is not limited to, managing accounting policies and regulations at the plant; coordinating the analysis of financial results and providing insights that identify business opportunities, potential investments and avoiding risks; maintaining consistent and effective baseline reporting and collaborating with Plant Finance Manager colleagues to share findings and develop recommendations for their Plant Manager business partners. The incumbent is also responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of the plant accounting and finance details and overall responsibility of Corporate SOX Compliance. 

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to: 

• Partner with the plant manager to ensure we have accurate financial plans (and forecasts) which capture the bold initiatives designed to transform our cost structure. 

• Be a key member of the plant leadership team. 

• Perform the month end, quarterly, and annual close process to facilitate the creation of timely and accurate financial statements.  Maintain forecast accuracy rate of at least 95%. 

• Operate as the Finance champion for the Company’s initiatives, which include Master Planning, Loss Analysis, TMOS Roll outs, etc. Provide the financial insights on key decisions, as well as track progress against timelines and savings commitments.  Provide education and alignment on financial perspective. 

• Coordinate with Plant Department Leads to align on budget expectations and provide guidance to plant business partners on how to prioritize spend requirements as volume changes such that the plant delivers on its financial commitments. 

• Actively identify opportunities to drive improvement through increased efficiency and cost reductions. 

• Partner with the Plant Manager to prioritize opportunities based on their impact to the plant and alignment with key initiatives. 

• Educate and guide plant business partners opportunities that are cost avoidance vs projects that provide sustainable cost savings year over year. 

• Visible and active participant in GEMBA walks, 5s activities, etc. 

• Partner with Engineering to provide develop & prioritize project opportunities that will deliver long term strategic initiatives. 

• Support financial process and policy improvements aligned to overall TreeHouse initiatives. 

• Responsible for successful SOX audit results and financial reporting accuracy for the plant. 

• Ensure compliance with Quarterly Fixed Asset review requirements. 

• Ability to support reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. 

Important Details: This is an on-site position. 

About You: 

You’ll fit right in if you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting. 

• Master’s degree (preferred not required). 

• CPA (preferred not required) 

• 6-8 years of finance and managerial experience. 

• Ability to contribute to complex financial analyses and recommendations for business leaders. 

• Ability to support strategic initiatives. 

• Applies financial analyses to strategic goals to create business opportunities and avoid risks. 

• Helps solve problems while implementing projects, communicating changes and monitoring progress. 

• Good organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment meeting deadlines with accurate and detailed results. 

• Ability to learn the business and understand key drivers by analyzing financial data and trends. 

• Analyst or Subject Matter Expert experience on an operational or finance improvement project. 

• Manage staff and support teams to complete project and finance operations activities efficiently and accurately. 

• Excellent communication skills, written and oral, for effective interaction with finance and operations teams. 

• Highly motivated, energetic, hands-on. 

• Lead and mentor Finance Professionals. 

• Must exhibit THS core values. 

• 5-10% site visits & meetings 

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away 

Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team  

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away

Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team

At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com

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