Director Finance - Retail chez T. Marzetti Company

The Marzetti Company (Nasdaq: MZTI) manufactures and sells specialty food products. Our retail brands include Marzetti® dressings and dips, New York Bakery™ garlic breads, and Sister Schubert’s® dinner rolls, in addition to exclusive license agreements for Olive Garden® dressings, Chick-fil-A® sauces and dressings, Buffalo Wild Wings® sauces, Arby’s® sauces, Subway® sauces, and Texas Roadhouse® steak sauces and frozen rolls. Our foodservice business supplies sauces, dressings, breads, and pasta to many of the top restaurant chains in the United States.

At Marzetti, our mission is to make every meal better through high-quality, flavorful food. Led by our purpose, to nourish growth with all that we do, our team members are dedicated to creating great tasting food and cultivating deep and lasting relationships.

We kindly request that recruitment agencies and staffing firms refrain from submitting unsolicited resumes to our company. Any resumes sent without a prior agreement and access to proper submittal into the ATS will be considered the property of T. Marzetti, and we reserve the right to contact those candidates without any obligation to pay a fee.

The Director Finance, Retail position is a unique opportunity for the right individual to play a central role in our growing Retail division. The individual in this role will partner with the Retail leadership team to ensure alignment to, and execution of the company’s financial goals.

• Business Partnership
• Provide financial business counsel to the Retail business with a focus on supporting the President of the division.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing and the Sales Strategy and Insights team to develop and execute the pricing strategy.
• Support Finance leadership in the comprehension of key business drivers in preparation for quarterly external reporting and communication
• Leadership
• Member of the Retail Leadership Team, driving financial acumen and accountability throughout the Retail division
• Provide leadership and development support to a team of analysts.
• Provide feedback and coaching to direct team, across the broader Finance function & across the Retail division to develop talent within the organization
• Collaborate with finance peers in Foodservice, Overhead Cost Management, & Supply Chain to advance best practices & tools for financial planning & analysis (FP&A)
• Long-range Planning, Annual Planning, and Monthly forecast
• Partner with Retail Leadership Team to build Long-range plans & Annual Operating plans that deliver industry-leading performance.
• Works closely with the sales, marketing and demand teams to accurately forecast sales volumes for the segment
• Gather and summarize inputs from cross functional teams to understand business risks and opportunities  
• Lead effort in identifying and acting on gap closing activities
• Drive for delivery of Retail business financial commitments across long-range plan, annual operating plan, & monthly forecasts
• Monthly Reporting
• Generate and analyze monthly financial statements
• Effectively communicate results and insights to all levels of the organization
• Portfolio Management– Finance Liaison
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Marketing, Costing, Supply Chain, Retail Sales, Project Managers) on new product development, cost optimization and various other projects
• Gather and validate various financial inputs (volume, pricing, cost, etc) and conduct detailed financial analysis for each project
• Provide insight and honest feedback to ensure projects align to the financial goals of the organization
• Month End Close
• Oversight for various journal entries as needed

• 10+ years’ experience in a Finance role supporting planning and analysis.
• 5+ years’ experience partnering with organizational leaders.
• Experience leading a team with objective setting, performance and development.
• Four-year college degree in business or related field, or equivalent experience required. 
• Skilled with Microsoft Office, specifically excel and powerpoint.
• Experience in programs such as Power BI, SQL, Tableau, Microstrategy, a plus
• Related Experience: Retail sector experience a plus
• Ability to work in a team setting, drive team results and support change management within the organization.
• Sound interpersonal skills and strong verbal, written and presentation skills.