Manager Finance at FreshRealm

FreshRealm - CONNECTING THROUGH MEALS

At FreshRealm, we aspire to be THE fresh meal company. Fresh meals are our focus, and we are passionate about revolutionizing this rapidly growing category. 

FreshRealm develops, sources, commercializes and assembles fresh meals. Fresh meals, including meal kits, ready-to-heat, and ready-to-cook offerings, are 100% our focus. We partner with leading Grocery, Convenience, and Omni channel retailers to deliver the very best meals to their customers. Our success is measured by the success of our retail partners. Service, quality, and consistency are our obsession, and we take pride in every meal that our customers place on their shelves.

At FreshRealm, meals are more than a source of nutrition; they are our passion. Meals are the heart of a timeless ritual of sitting down to connect with family, friends, and ourselves. We are proud to play a small part in the ritual of “connecting us through meals.”

If you are a leader looking to build the future of fresh meals,  you are growth-minded and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, or you are excited to work with the country’s largest retailers, go to market with the best in product quality and work with industry leaders that care for each other and their communities, FreshRealm is the perfect fit for you. 

Overview

The Manager of Finance will play an important role in the company’s fiscal strength and growth objectives.  The role's core responsibilities will be devising, validating, and monitoring KPIs and Metrics, ensuring the company’s production facilities are meeting financial performance targets, ensuring accurate costing, assessing risk on inventory, and variance analysis and mitigation.

Essential Functions include, but are not limited to:

• Maintenance of the Company’s Standard Cost inventory valuation scheme
• Responsible for the Company’s Inventory Risk Assessment and management of inventory reserve
• Develop detailed costing models in collaboration with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and other internal partners
• Define and implement a robust, activity-based, full-absorption costing structure
• Responsible for ensuring strict compliance with the defined SAP master data scheme throughout the organization
• Define opportunities for process improvements, system refinements, master data updates, or system enhancements to improve cost capture, cost control and reporting accuracy
• Ensure clear policy definitions for timing, frequency, and approval of cost updates/mass revaluations, system maintenance for BOMs and Routings, cost pool definitions, allocations, and accounting master data enhancements
• Ensure the organization complies with industry standards and regulations and help identify areas for process improvements
• As reconciliation or variance issues are discovered or reported, it is the Manager of Finance’s responsibility to research, devise solutions, communicate, and drive resolution
• Fully Remote Role with up to 25% Travel

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or finance
• CMA, CPA certification, and/or an MBA are preferred but not required
• Experience matters

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Technical Cost Accounting understanding
• Good understanding of production operations as it pertains to plant activities and financial system effects
• Good systems implementation and configuration experience
• Good fiscal controllership and use of best practices
• Project management experience.  Leading a team to focus on specific objectives with persons of varying skill levels, technical understanding, and degrees of engagement to accomplish a goal
• Good process understanding regarding the Product Life Cycle from inception to discontinuation
• Good business sense to identify anomalies coupled with high initiative and aptitude to quickly get into details
• Must have a solid understanding of the Balance Sheet, P&L, Inventory Risk assessment, reserves, variance analysis, etc.   Must have experience with forecasting, budgeting, planning, and operations variance types and root causes
• Data management – copious amounts of financial data are handled by the Finance Manager in carrying out the monitoring, analyzing, and auditing responsibilities.  Must be adept at Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel
• Analytical skills – staying abreast of financial performance, planning, drivers of variability, and making recommendations for improvements requires the Finance Manager to analyze various financial records and results
• Ethics – because this position handles various confidential records and sensitive financial statements, it requires a candidate with high moral standards
• Communication skills – the Finance Manager requires excellent speaking and writing abilities to make presentations to all management levels, manage or coordinate with other accounting and finance personnel, and correspond with internal and external departments

FreshRealm, Inc does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of FreshRealm, Inc.

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