Rise Baking Company, LLC is seeking a Sr Manager, Finance to lead the Operations Finance Center of Excellence from its Minneapolis, MN location. In this onsite role, you will drive standardization across the plant network by producing centralized reporting, templates, and tools that strengthen consistency, data quality, automation, and financial discipline. You will also support the Rise Recipe continuous improvement program by ensuring savings are measured, validated, and tracked with rigor.
Core focus of the role
You will serve as the hub for once, centrally produced finance outputs that are used across plants, while also building and maintaining standardized Operations Finance processes. The work includes network reporting cadences, governance of plant data through LaunchPAD, and follow-through on actions from recurring operating reviews.
Key responsibilities
- Produce and publish standard network reporting for every plant, including the weekly scorecard finance metrics (material usage and labor variance), the standard plant P&L package by working day 3, and monthly plant performance review data packs (WD11), Pod Review, and Steerco
- Provide quarterly cost-roll and annual operating plan (OPC) templates, tools, and data used by Plant Controllers
- Maintain LaunchPAD as the single source of plant data by partnering with Finance, BI, and systems teams to improve data quality, consistency, and automation, and retire reports that duplicate LaunchPAD
- Maintain the cross-plant benchmark dataset and definitions used by the Regional Finance Operations Controllers for their analysis
- Develop new or plant-specific reporting when needed and transition it to the appropriate Plant or Regional Controller once stable, while keeping standard network reporting within the Center of Excellence
- Develop and maintain standardized Operations Finance processes, including the close calendar, templates, and tools across the plant network
- Coordinate network-wide Operations Finance processes, including annual operating plan, forecast consolidation, and audit and CapEx coordination
- Track actions and commitments from the monthly plant performance review, Pod Review, and Steerco, and follow up with owners
- Identify and deliver automation for recurring reporting and data processes to reduce manual work across the Controller organization
- Share and drive adoption of best practices across Plant and Regional Controllers, and onboard new Controllers on standard reports and tools
- Own the finance methodology for Rise Recipe savings, ensuring savings are real, tracked, validated with Plant Controllers, and not counted twice
- Support productivity and continuous improvement initiatives through project costing and benefit measurement and reporting, partnering with the CI Director and CI Managers
- Maintain data governance for product and customer profitability in Rise Business Insights
- Perform network-level financial and operational analysis for the VP, Operations Finance, identifying trends, outliers, and opportunities across plants
- Prepare clear, concise financial analyses and presentations for Operations and Finance leadership
- Support food safety program, quality standards, and legality of manufactured products
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced degree or certification preferred
- 10+ years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including meaningful manufacturing or operations finance experience
- Food manufacturing, consumer products, or process-manufacturing experience required
- Strong cost accounting knowledge, including standard costing and manufacturing variance analysis (material usage, labor, overhead)
- Demonstrated experience standardizing reporting, improving processes, or leading cross-functional finance initiatives
- Strong ability to extract, consolidate, validate, and analyze data from multiple sources and turn it into actionable insights
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities; SAP or comparable manufacturing ERP and BI/reporting tool experience preferred
- Experience with reporting automation, RPA or AI tools, and Lean or continuous improvement initiatives preferred
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, influence across functions and levels, and drive follow-through
- Ability to travel to plant locations as needed
Technologies
- LaunchPAD, Excel, PowerPoint
- SAP, RPA, AI, BI/reporting tool
- Rise Business Insights
Compensation and benefits
The salary range for this role is USD 156,000 - 170,000 per year. This position is eligible for annual bonus and incentive and recognition programs. Benefits include 401k contributions and a comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
Locations supported under the pay terms listed include California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
