Chief Financial Officer North America

Company Description

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands: Jack Link’s®, Lorissa’s™ Organic Snacks, Golden Island®, BiFi®, Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few, there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

Job Description

ROLE SUMMARY

As a key member of the North America Senior Leadership Team, the Chief Financial Officer North America will report to the North America President and holds a strategic role in supporting the North America Jack Link’s business. Primary day-to-day responsibility will be for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities of the North America Business. This will include direct responsibility for accounting, Capital Expenditures, FP&A, strategic planning, cash collection, plant controlling across 12 facilities, and master data with regular communications to the advisory board, leadership teams, and total business. In addition, the CFO oversees and manages the Finance Team within the North America business.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with the North America leadership team to lead all aspects of business performance, providing clear analytics and reporting and where appropriate action plans to accelerate wins or address issues. 
• Lead and deliver regular performance reporting for the global executives, with clear financial updates and selecting and delivering deep dives on appropriate topics to drive understanding and action. 
• Support business-first decision making on new initiatives, including new customers or products, innovation, or brand value engineering.  This requires a strong cross-functional mindset and will not always be about a finance-first decision-making approach.
• Provide context and rigorous prioritization to help the business navigate multiple cross functional goals, align on key decisions and priorities, and then commit and lead through with regular reporting and analytics to show progress and course correct.
• Lead and build an Annual Operating Plan.
• Support and coach the organization through the design and build steps of a multi-year SAP S4 Hana roll out, leveraging opportunities to improve and standardize processes and manage organizational change within the organization. 
• Track and manage the investment of trade dollars across the commercial team, work with sales leadership to accurately reserve against activities, forecast future investment and optimize returns and outcomes against a complex commercial agenda.
• Support cost tracking, forecast and management across manufacturing sites, Brazilian manufacturing sites, a centralized warehouse, and various co-manufacturing facilities to ensure accurate cost information is provided to site leadership, to drive and deliver against a stretching Continuous Improvement agenda.  Work with site leaders to ensure agile and responsive changes are made where volume ramps up or down. 
• Liaison with management teams of internal divisions including Canada and Brazil to ensure consolidated financial results of North America organization are understood. 
• Support the ongoing tracking and forecasting of key commodity prices including the US meat market, transport and fuel prices, and key foreign exchange currency pairings, and risks and situational changes are understood and communicated to leadership, and working with procurement teams to map out strategic changes in buying to address existing or future risks.
• Lead the reporting and communication of spending across SG&A spending buckets and provide clear reporting to leaders to ensure that spending is managed, controlled, and forecast accurately.

• Support the ongoing maintenance and protection of master data across the organization including synchronization to customers and adherence to key data governance rules.
• Provide coaching and support to a team of over 80 finance team members across various facilities and sites, promote personal growth and development, and support and demonstrate opportunities for career growth and progression within Jack Link’s finance organization.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

Approximately 10%-15% travel depending on business needs.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master Degree in Finance and/or CPA or MBA in Finance, Accounting, Business Management, or related field.
• Minimum 10 Years of Experience in leading as a Finance VP or above.

SKILLS:

• Minimum 15 years of increasingly responsible finance experience in a mid-size to large companies.
• A background demonstrated in analysis of business activities to evaluate and determine the resulting financial impact. Creative problem-solving capabilities with a proven record of taking ownership of issues and orchestrating resources to meet goals. Experience within an entrepreneurial environment with lean resources.
• A demonstrated understanding of revenue forecasting.
• A high level of integrity and dependability, with a clear bias for action and a strong orientation for the attainment of results.
• A solid foundation in GAAP, accounting theory and accounting standards is necessary. Exposure to cash management, administrative and operational responsibilities, budgeting, and EBITDA forecasting.
• Strategically focused leadership skills that include superior communication skills, team-based motivational tactics, creative instincts, and the ability to implement company goals.
• Ability to provide balance of high level tactical and strategic abilities with hands-on, get the job done approach.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment that is continually evolving and will be able to adapt quickly and thrive in an autonomous and deadline-oriented workplace.
• A demonstrated ability to lead – marshaling relationships and competitive intelligence.
• Exceptional presentation ability and the capability to establish and maintain high levels of trust, decisiveness, and deliverability.
• Strong track record of cross functional team leadership within the organization and across the customer base.
• Specialized experience in the CPG industry, including but not limited to multiple channels & retailer landscape, manufacturing & co-packers, distributors & brokers, trade spend, etc.
• "Hands On" ERP Systems Experience – SAP  Platform or other applicable system.

Additional Information

The salary range for this role is $290,000 - $330,000 (Annually).  Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, and candidate skill set and experience. Base pay is just one component of  Link Snacks Total Rewards package for Team Members. Other rewards may include annual incentive and program-specific awards. Link Snacks provides a variety of benefits to eligible Team Members, including medical, dental and vision benefits, life and disability insurance, 401k participation, paid holidays, and paid time off.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
Link Snacks provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local law.

E-VERIFY:
Link Snacks is participant in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.  For information about the E-Verify program, please visit:  http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees