Background

Chaucer Foods is category leader in freeze-dried fruit for segments like snacks, drinks, cereals, and kids snacks in B2C and B2B. The Chaucer Foods team is very international, collaborative, with a strong can-do mentality.

The Americas team is scaling up and looking for an experienced Commercial Business Controller to be the financial business partner for our commercial team, providing strong financial insights, exploring financial strategies, to make the right decisions for the company and our customers. It is required to have a proven record of collaborating successfully with sales and customers in retail (grocery, club store, big box/mass merchandise).

In this role you are the barometer, monitoring our daily and weekly customer performance.

Role & Responsibilities

The Commercial Business Controller’s primary role is to be a solid, reliable and challenging business partner for our commercial team and to be the finance lead towards customers. Critical elements in the role are understanding and actively leading revenue growth management (RGM), financial KPIs and insights.

Responsibilities are:

• Analyzing and managing the financial performance of customers
• Delivering weekly financial KPI reports and customer specific financial insights
• Working with the sales team on pricing, customer profitability, and overall commercial revenue by providing insights and recommendations based on detailed financial data
• Developing promotional strategies, evaluations and recommendations
• Delivering and updating financials for budget and mid-year customer plans for current and new markets and current and new products

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in finance, Business Administration
• Highly organized with excellent analytical and communication skills
• Team player and passionate to collaborate with people
• Ability to work cross functionally within the Americas and global organization
• Strategic, savvy and energized by challenges and opportunities
• Experience with ERP systems and reporting tools, SAP preferred
• Experience with Sales Force is preferred
• Strong Excel Skills

Experience:

• 8+ years of working experience in Finance,
• Understanding of Food & Beverages in retail, grocery, club store, mass merchandise
• Customer-facing experience managing financial performance of a portfolio of products and introducing new products to national and regional retailers in the US

Location:

The role is hybrid, 50% based in Encino (Los Angeles), with regular (bi-monthly/quarterly) travel.