Brand Finance Manager

About Us

Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a premier, vertically integrated producer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a heritage built on quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers both branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels. Horseshoe Beverage Company, located in Neenah, Wisconsin, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer focused on delivering an outstanding beverage experience. By combining top talent, state-of-the-art equipment, and a fully integrated supply chain, we drive innovation and consistently deliver high-quality products to our customers — quickly and reliably. Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen’s, Dutch Bros beverages, and Nurri, our protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages and building a team that shares that energy. Join us at Trilliant or Horseshoe to discover opportunities that align with your talents and career goals.

Position Overview

The Brand Finance Manager partners with the Business Unit and leadership to deliver financial insight, analysis, and decision support that drives profitable growth and strong operational performance. Reporting into the Finance organization, this role serves as the BU’s day-to-day financial partner, translating business plans into forecasts, evaluating trade-offs, and improving financial outcomes through rigorous analysis and cross-functional collaboration. The role blends analytical rigor with commercial understanding and broad cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Business Partnership & Decision Support: Serve as the primary finance contact for the BU, collaborating closely with the BU Lead and functional leaders. Provide financial analysis and insights to inform pricing and margin decisions, trade spend and promotional effectiveness, customer/channel/product profitability, and inventory management. Identify key cost drivers across materials, labor, overhead, and logistics, and work with cross-functional teams to understand forecast drivers, 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 results, including variance analysis vs. budget and forecast, key cost drivers and trends, and support monthly business reviews with 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 within the weekly/monthly IBP process, partnering across demand planning, supply planning, and PMR (production, materials, and resources) planning. Translate demand and supply scenarios into financial impacts such as revenue, margin, inventory, and net working capital. Support scenario planning by quantifying tradeoffs related to capacity, service levels, inventory positioning, and cost and margin implications. Provide financial input and validation during IBP meetings to support fact-based decisions that balance 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 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 enhance 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 such as margin and 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 a related field.
• Experience: 5–7 years of progressive accounting/FP&A experience supporting a consumer packaged goods brand, business unit, or scaled manufacturing platform.
• Financial Management: Proven ability to manage and analyze 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.
• Partnership: Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Cost Accounting, and Supply Chain to support forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, profitability initiatives, and inventory management.
• Skills: Robust analytical and financial modeling abilities; advanced Excel proficiency essential for modeling and scenario analysis.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Mindset: Ownership mentality for the brand.
• Preferred: Experience in CPG, food and beverage, or consumer products settings.
• Forecasting & Analytics: Experience budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with a proven ability to translate analytics into actionable insights.
• Systems: Exposure to ERP or planning systems.
• Role Realization: Demonstrated success in translating financial analysis into practical business actions and outcomes.

• What success in this role looks like: BU leaders rely on you to proactively deliver clear, timely insights grounded in analytics. You lead cross-functional work streams beyond traditional finance duties, driving progress across operations, sales, and supply planning. You have a solid understanding of forecasts and their drivers across all line items, and financial tradeoffs are surfaced early to inform decisions before they are made. You stay deeply engaged with the business, seeking real-world insight through site visits and research.

Hours, Location and Pay

We offer a competitive base pay and a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. Standard business hours apply, with additional time as business needs dictate. This role is based at our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility, ZIP 54140.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Frequently sit, listen, and use hands to type data, operate a computer and telephone.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Mental demands include multitasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
• Potential exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other hazards may exist.

Safety Statement

Safety is a core responsibility at Trilliant and Horseshoe. All employees are expected to follow safety practices, have the courage to prevent unsafe acts, and promptly report unsafe conditions.

Disclosures

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by personnel in this classification. They are not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed.

Responsible for following food safety and regulatory policies and procedures, and executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures.