Brand Finance Manager

About Us:

Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading, vertically integrated manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent, cutting-edge equipment, and a vertically integrated supply chain, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers-first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen's, Dutch Bros beverages and Nurri, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages - and about building a team that's just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

Position Overview:

Responsibilities:

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Serve as the primary finance point of contact for the BU, partnering closely with the BU Lead and functional leaders.
• Provide financial analysis and insights to support:
• • Pricing and margin decisions
  • Trade spend and promotional effectiveness
  • Customer, channel, and product profitability
  • Inventory Management
  
  
• Identify & understand key cost drivers across materials, labor, overhead, and logistics.
• Partner cross-functionally to identify key drivers behind forecasts, variances, costs, and productivity to strengthen insights and future forecasting.
• Support evaluation of new initiatives, business cases, and growth opportunities.

Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead the BU's annual budget, rolling forecast, and periodic outlook updates.
• Prepare and explain monthly financial results, including:

o Variance analysis vs. budget and forecast

o Key performance cost drivers and trends

• Support monthly business reviews by highlighting risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Help improve forecast accuracy and financial transparency for the BU.

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Support

• Act as the finance lead for the BU as part of the weekly/monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, partnering across:
• • Demand planning, Supply planning, and Production, Materials, and Resource (PMR) planning
  
  
• Translate demand and supply scenarios into financial impacts, including revenue, margin, inventory, and net working capital implications.
• Support scenario planning by quantifying tradeoffs related to:
• • Capacity constraints
  • Service level decisions
  • Inventory positioning
  • Cost and margin impacts
  
  
• Provide financial input and validation during IBP meetings to support fact-based decision-making, balancing margin and liquidity.

Commercial & Operational Analysis

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to understand volume, mix, pricing, and end-to-end cost drivers.
• Analyze manufacturing and supply chain impacts on BU financial performance.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by quantifying financial benefits tied to cost reduction, productivity, and efficiency efforts.
• Track and report on key KPIs, ensuring insights are clear, relevant, and actionable.

Process, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain financial models and reporting tools to support BU decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, data quality, and reporting efficiency.
• Ensure alignment with finance policies, controls, and standard processes.

Collaboration & Communication

• Work cross-functionally to ensure financial implications (margin & liquidity) are understood and considered in BU decisions .
• Clearly communicate financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a practical, business-focused way.
• Escalate key risks or issues to finance leadership as appropriate.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 5-7 years of progressive experience in accounting/FP&A supporting a CPG brand, business unit or scaled manufacturing platform.
• Proven experience managing and analyzing the full P&L, from gross sales through net revenue, with deep exposure to gross-to-net drivers, cost accounting, inventory and working capital management and margin analysis.
• Strong track record of cross-functional partnership with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Cost Accounting, and Supply Chain to support forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, profitability initiatives, and inventory management.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; Excel proficiency, including advanced functions and modeling, is critical for success.
• Strong communication skills both written and oral.
• Ownership mentality for the brand.

Preferred

• CPG, food & beverage, or consumer products experience
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with extensive experience translating analytics into actionable insights
• Exposure to ERP or planning systems

Success in This Role Looks Like

• BU leaders rely on you to proactively provide clear, timely insights rooted in analytics.
• Ability to lead cross functional work streams, stepping beyond traditional finance responsibilities to drive progress across operations, sales, supply planning and execution.
• Robust understanding of forecasts including drivers across all line items.
• Financial tradeoffs are surfaced early and clearly.
• Decisions improve because finance is involved before, not after.
• Deeply engaged in the business - actively thinking about performance, visiting stores, conducting research and seeking real world insight.

Hours, Location and Pay:

We offer a competitive base pay rate and comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. Standard business hours apply; however, additional time may be required as business needs dictate. This position works out of our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility.

Physical and Mental Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone.
• Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
• Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exist.

Safety Statement:

At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee's first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.

Disclosures:

• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
• Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
• Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
• EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
• If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at HR@trilliantfood.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
• The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.