Trilliant Food & Nutrition seeks a Brand Finance Manager to partner with its onsite team in Little Chute, Wisconsin. The role turns strategic plans into forecasts, delivers financial insight, and weighs trade-offs across the business unit to drive profitable growth and stronger operational performance.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary finance partner for the business unit, collaborating closely with the BU Lead and functional leaders.
- Provide financial analysis to inform pricing and margin decisions, trade spend and promotional effectiveness, and the profitability of customers, channels, and products, as well as inventory management.
- Identify key cost drivers across materials, labor, overhead, and logistics.
- Partner cross-functionally to identify drivers behind forecasts, variances, costs, and productivity to strengthen insights and future forecasting.
- Support the evaluation of new initiatives, business cases, and growth opportunities.
- Lead the BU’s annual budget, rolling forecast, and periodic outlook updates.
- Prepare and explain monthly financial results, including variance analysis vs. budget/forecast and highlighting cost drivers and trends; support monthly business reviews with risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Help improve forecast accuracy and financial transparency for the BU.
- Act as the finance lead for the BU in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, partnering with Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Production, Materials, and Resource (PMR) planning.
- Translate demand and supply scenarios into financial impacts such as revenue, margin, inventory, and net working capital implications.
- Support scenario planning by quantifying tradeoffs related to capacity, service levels, inventory positioning, and cost and margin impacts.
- Provide financial input and validation during IBP meetings to support fact-based decision-making, balancing margin and liquidity.
- 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 key KPIs, ensuring insights are clear, relevant, and actionable.
- 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.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure financial implications 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of progressive experience in accounting/FP&A supporting a CPG brand, BU, or scaled manufacturing platform.
- Proven experience managing and analyzing the full P&L from gross sales to net revenue, with deep exposure to gross-to-net drivers, cost accounting, inventory and working capital management, and margin analysis.
- Strong track record partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Cost Accounting, and Supply Chain to support forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, profitability initiatives, and inventory management.
- Solid analytical and financial modeling skills; advanced Excel proficiency and modeling capabilities are essential.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ownership mindset for the brand.
Technologies
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP systems
- Planning systems
Benefits
- Competitive base pay
- Comprehensive benefits package
Hours, Location and Pay
This is a full-time onsite role based at our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility with standard business hours; additional time may be required based on business needs. The position offers a competitive base pay and comprehensive benefits.
Physical and Mental Demands
- Frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, and operate a computer and phone.
- Close vision and ability to adjust focus; reasonable accommodations available.
- Multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, data comparison and analysis, coordination, and synthesis of information.
- Potential exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, and wet environments.
Safety Statement
Safety is the top priority at Trilliant and Horseshoe. All employees are expected to follow safety practices, proactively stop unsafe acts, and promptly report unsafe conditions.
Disclosures
- The statements describe the general nature of work; duties may vary and additional tasks may be assigned as needed.
- Responsible for adhering to food safety and regulatory policies, executing SOPs, and reporting concerns to Production or Quality Management.
- Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces; all applicants undergo a drug screen and background check.
- Participation in E-Verify is required.
- EEO/AA including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Reasonable accommodation requests for any part of the employment process should be directed to HR.
- Equal Opportunity Employers.
- OECD and UN human rights guidance informs our practices.
About Us
Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading, vertically integrated manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. The company delivers branded and private-label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels. Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, Wisconsin, is a premier ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer known for innovation and a vertically integrated supply chain. Our portfolio features Victor Allen’s, Dutch Bros beverages, and Nurri, a better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages and building a team that shares that energy.