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Commercial Finance Manager

Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
locationOntario, CA, USA
PublishedPublished: 4/9/2026
Full Time

Commercial Finance Manager

US-CA-Ontario

Job ID: 2026-9072
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Ontario (Corporate Office)

Overview

The Commercial Finance manager is a critical business partner to the Commercial organization. The finance manager works cross-functionally with other finance and operations teams, Strategic Business Unit (SBU’s) to develop powerful insights, market assessments and deliver financial targets on sales, product P&L and R&D for new products.



Responsibilities

  • Provides lead financial support to the Commercial team on S&OP, enhancing the S&OP discussion to discuss both volume and margins
  • Responsible for providing monthly results analysis on volumes and revenue with a deep dive into root causes and variance vs. PY, Budget and Forecast
  • Provides financial support to both Sales and Marketing teams during the annual budget exercise
  • Support the monthly Risk and Opportunities update, actively indicating the future action plans to mitigate risks while optimizing opportunities by highlighting the financial implications
  • Monitor and analyze the spending to support sales, including but not limited to Promotions, Coupons, Demos and Marketing events
  • Understand manufacturing and supply chain cost structure to improve cost and recommend portfolio changes.
  • Understand industry key drivers and trends that influence the company’s competitive position and conduct comparable company analysis
  • Drive standardization on reports and leverage further standardized PowerBI reports
  • Assist in Standardization of performance metrics and perform benchmarking and root-cause analyses
  • Develop meaningful SG&A reports for the Commercial organization to proactively manage their spending
  • Support developing financial models for new businesses (customers, channels, products)
  • Support Commercial organization in anchoring/tracking strategic plans supporting long term goals.
  • Participate in key technology and kaizen initiatives as needed.
  • Ad-hoc requests from Commercial team & Director.


Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA Strongly Preferred
    • 5+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience in a manufacturing environment preferably in the Food industry and consumer packaged goods.
    • Strong analytical, systems and communications skills
    • Proven leadership experience
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced growth environment with an appropriate balance of urgency and quality.
    • Broad business experience on P&L
    • Excellent written and communication skills with the ability to interact with Business Unit executives in a professional manner
    • Must be a team player with initiative, passion and a demonstrated ability to drive profit improvement initiatives.
    • Exercises considerable discretion and independent judgment and handles confidential information.
    • Highly proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
    • This position is based in Ontario, California with some domestic travel
    • Range of pay $131,000 - $160,000 annually. Plus, 20% annual bonus potentional.
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