Commercial Finance Manager at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc. – Ontario, California

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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