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McCain Foods · 7 hours ago

Sr. Manager, NA Finance, Planning & Trade

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$98K/yr - $130K/yr

3+ years exp

McCain Foods is a global family-owned company focused on creating exceptional work experiences. The Sr. Manager, NA Finance, Planning & Trade will provide comprehensive visibility into volume trends and trade activities, ensuring effective accrual management and process alignment to optimize trade investments.

Food and BeverageFood ProcessingFood TrucksSnack Food

Hiring Manager

Andrea Hoerner

Responsibilities

Be a key financial partner to the commercial team—providing analysis, guidance, and financial modeling to support volume growth and margin management. They help interpret market trends, customer profitability, and competitive landscapes to guide commercial decisions

Analyze the drivers affecting sales volumes, including customer behavior, promotional effectiveness, channel performance, and seasonal trends. These insights help shape business strategy and tactical execution

Lead initiatives to standardize and streamline commercial finance processes such as forecasting, reporting, budgeting, and accrual management. This individual would play a key role in Planning, Reporting & Analysis supporting preparation of detailed monthly, quarterly, and annual internal reporting, participating in

QBR, QFR, Month-end, Mid-month

Both month end (past reporting & analysis), and forecast (future, estimates reporting & analysis)

Accountable for SG&A spend management, budgeting, reporting, forecasting supporting the commercial team:

Responsible to work with and coordinate spending management across cost center owners

Responsible to ensure spending tightly managed, and cost centers not overspent, leveraging data, analytics and financial tracking methods

The role entails ownership of the trade accruals process — estimating and recording allowances for trade promotions, discounts, and rebates. This involves working closely with sales and deductions teams to ensure accuracy in accrual calculations, tracking claims, and reconciling balances monthly

They conduct monthly reconciliations of trade accrual accounts—to ensure completeness and correctness of financial statements, investigate discrepancies, and coordinate with accounting to resolve issues promptly

One of the core responsibilities is to develop risk control frameworks to help identify and report potential risks, whether volume (market-based or operational) or trade, (liability or contracts exposure), and proactively escalate concerns to senior leaders, supporting compliance and business continuity

Qualification

Financial modelingData analyticsSAPSimilar ERPAdvanced ExcelPower BIInfluencing skillsBusiness acumenCommunicationCollaboration skillsLeadership skillsProblem-solving skills