.Experience Years: 5-10 Years of ExperienceEmployee Type: RegularAbout the OpportunityThe Berry Finance Manager is a core member of the Enterprise Finance team. They combine business acumen and deep analytical and financial expertise to drive optimum operational and strategic decision making for Driscoll's and the enterprise. The Berry Finance Manager defines and independently leads financial analysis to quantify how our market, supply and financial business strategies impact Enterprise profitability of the berry. The role provides "field to fork" analysis, creating recommendations to improve the financial health of each berry business including customer/channel performance, supply applications, business model mechanics, and new product development. The role will support or lead key projects that require the ability to work and negotiate requirements across functions, including Driscoll's Product Leadership, Supply Solution, Growing, Nurseries, Supply Chain, Finance, and Market Group. The Manager will lead the interpretation of fruit margin results; generating insights andimplications from variances to plan and prior years.Responsibilities
- Identifies and interprets internal and industry challenges and recommends best practices to improve enterprise profitability.
- Identifies and leads research around innovations in technology and best practices in planning methodology.
- Leads projects to analyze and internally coordinate implementation of business model changes. Supports the growing team with communications to growers, creating innovative ways to communicate difficult concepts. Quantifies impact to Grower and Driscoll's, making formal recommendations.
- Leads and coordinates the Supply Group, Regional Production, Applied Research and other Driscoll's teams when analyzing new supply technologies.
- Independently leads the comprehensive evaluation of berry business performance, from end to end, including performance results related to supply and market strategies, grower economics, supply chain and nursery costs, and Driscoll's financials overall. Identifies opportunities for Enterprise profit gain and/or category growth.
- Uses market, financial, customer, grower and consumer data to find meaningful insights into building a profitable and sustainable berry business, serving as a key partner to the Product Leadership Director.
- Provides detailed analysis and assessment of new business applications and their potential pro-forma impact on Enterprise P&L.
- Assists with integrated planning models to project supply, price, and enterprise profitability.
- Assists in quantifying risks and opportunities associated with berry investments, measures return on capital, and provides key associated financial metrics.
- Manages the Berry Business Plan pro-forma financial models including the associated processes around data collection and assumptions, presentation and sensitivity analysis
