Finance Manager

BakeMark, a Clearlake Capital portfolio company, is the leading supply chain partner and specialty distributor to national and independent bakeries in North America. BakeMark operates 39 branch locations and production facilities serving more than 28,000 customers across the US and Canada. Revenue has grown 15% to 20% each of the past three years driven by organic customer growth as well as inorganic M&A.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented professional to join our growing Finance Team.

The Finance Manager will work closely with the Director of Finance and cross-functional management team to develop analysis, improve the forecasting process, and establish reporting to support monthly business reviews. This position will be responsible for leading volume/revenue forecasting, offering insights into the company’s performance, identifying risks and opportunities, as well as supporting margin/pricing analysis and special projects. The role will coordinate with cross-functional partners to ensure alignment on the business drivers and assumptions used to develop the monthly outlooks, quarterly forecasts, and annual plan.

The Finance Manager reports to the Director of Finance and has no direct reports, but regularly collaborates with members of Sales, Operations, Procurement, Accounting and Marketing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the monthly volume and revenue forecasting process, working closely with Sales and Operations to develop activity-based forecast assumptions by product line for key customers.
• Complete monthly financial analysis including volume/mix/pricing analysis, customer and product analysis and special projects as required.
• Manage ensure data integrity and provide both summary reporting and visibility to the raw data budget assumptions by month, channel, customer, and SKU.
• Support the Finance Director in consolidating a multi-channel analysis of revenue results vs. prior year, plan, and forecast through conducting price-volume-mix analysis for key customers/products, analyzing shipment vs. consumption trends, determining if variances are timing or permanent, and reporting on one-time items/gains/losses.
• Ensures all financial reports and analyses are prepared in a timely and accurate manner.
• Create deep dive reports for company’s top 5 customers. Work closely with National Accounts team during budget process
• Track acquisition performance, review sales and margin trend pre- & post acquisition. Work with branch leaders to increase sales of manufactured items.
• Participate in designing and developing data cubes / financial management tools to optimize work flows.

Desired Education, Experience, and Characteristics:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a quantitative/technical discipline with 5-7 years of professional experience. MBA is a plus.
• Experience in manufacturing or consumer packaged goods environment is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, superior analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, preparing financial reports/analysis.
• Ability to utilize financial modeling, critical reasoning, and process analysis.
• Strong grasp and ability to identify opportunities to drive improvement across the P&L.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel. SQL experience strong preferred.
• Results-driven with a strong and disciplined work ethic.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and listening skills.
• Ability to work with all levels of management.