Commercial Finance Manager

Magic Spoon reimagines your childhood breakfasts favorites with more protein, less sugar, and more fun. Since launching in 2019, we've brought our unbelievably tasty cereal to over one million customers online and over 20,000 stores nationwide. With our recently launched Protein Treats and Protein Granola we're continuing to find new ways to make mornings magical - all made possible by our incredible team.

Our Finance team prides itself on providing cross-functional partnership and collaboration across the organization. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data driven decisions to maximize our rapid growth we have an unwavering commitment having a meaningful impact.

We're looking for a Commercial Finance Manager to drive financial analysis and business partnership across our commercial organization. They will be instrumental in closely partnering with the commercial team in driving commercial decision making to maximize revenue, market share and profitability as we scale our omnichannel presence. This role reports to our Head of Finance. 

This is a full time, in-person/hybrid role (Tues, Weds, Thursday in office) based in Tribeca, NYC.

In this role you'll:

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to our sales, marketing, and innovation teams, providing both operational and strategic analysis and insights to drive business decisions
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly business reviews with Sr Leadership as it relates to consolidated, channel/customer segment performance analysis & management
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate promotional effectiveness, marketing ROI, and overall commercial performance optimization
• Partner with the sales team to evaluate customer and channel profitability, optimize product mix, and refine pricing strategies. Own customer- and category-level P&Ls, providing insights to maximize revenue and margin.
• Leverage trade promotion planning and management systems in analyzing and maximizing customer or channel profitability
• Lead the monthly business review process for the commercial team, ensuring alignment between financial projections and operational execution. To include aggregation and management of commercial portion of monthly rolling forecast and LV process
• Participate as key member of Stagegate with robust financial models for innovation and renovation agendas, and assisting in driving project P&Ls to meet or beat financial guardrails
• Proactively identify and quantity risks & opportunities for the commercial team, to eliminate surprises and raise investment opportunities
• Partner with commercial leadership to analyze business opportunities and scenarios on ongoing basis
• Drive profit & cost optimization initiatives through data-driven analysis and recommendations
• Create and maintain dashboards to provide visibility into key business metrics
• Support annual budgeting process and monthly reforecast process
• Lead special projects and ad-hoc analysis as-needed

Requirements

• 5+ years of CPG finance experience, with at least 3+ years focused on commercial finance
• Strong understanding of CPG trade; pricing and promotion planning, customer negotiations, etc.
• Strong stakeholder management qualities with cross-functional experience
• Strong excel based financial modeling and analysis skills with capability to build agile models
• Experience with financial reporting and BI tools (e.g., Microsoft Business Central, Looker), industry data tools (e.g., SPINS, IRI, Nielsen) and trade promotion management systems (e.g., Modus, Confido) - knowledge of these specific tools are a bonus!
• Experience partnering with sales and marketing leadership teams
• Proven track record of driving actionable business insights & recommendations through data analysis and effective communication skills
• Highly organized with the ability to balance multiple projects at once

What we value:

Hold on to the Dream 💫 Adult life shouldn’t be boring, prioritize your work/life balance, we can build a world-class company and have fun doing it

Don’t miss the bowl for the loops 🙌 We’re all working towards the same big goals, prioritize collaboration over ego, politics, or possessiveness

Be a Fruit Loop in a world of Cheerios 🌈 Bring your whole, unique self to work, celebrate and care for everyone

Pour your own milk…and don’t be afraid to spill a little 🥛 We trust you, use your best judgment to make decisions. Mistakes are inevitable, let’s learn from them!

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Bonus eligibility
• 100% covered Health, Vision, Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible vacation
• Catered lunch in office
• Dog friendly office!
• Unlimited cereal ✨🥣

Magic Spoon is committed to building a company that not only represents, but includes, individuals across different backgrounds and perspectives. Everyone deserves an equal seat at the breakfast table.

Magic Spoon intends to offer competitive base pay within the stated range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. To further compensate and recognize our employees for their work, our total compensation package includes equity and a robust benefits package. The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $120,000-$165,000.