Latitude Foods, LLC Hiring for VP. Finance Job at Salinas, CA Full Time

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field is required.
• 10 + years’ experience in accounting and finance.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, highly preferred.
• CPA and MBA is a plus.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the president by providing strategic recommendations based on financial analysis and

projections, cost identification and allocation, and revenue/expense analysis.

• Provides strategic recommendations based on financial analysis and projections, cost identification and allocation, and revenue/expense analysis.
• Directs the continuous evaluation of short and long-term strategic financial objectives.
• Implements a process for budgeting, forecasting, cash and asset management.
• Prepares timely annual, quarterly and monthly accounting reports, budgets and forecasts to understand and review performance against goals and objectives.
• Proactively monitors input costs, gross margin, and operating expenses.
• Delivers explanations and business solutions to help mitigate financial risks and provide information needed for making important business decisions.
• Manages treasury, including establishment of credit lines and other debt, cash management.
• Represents company to banks, financial partners, institutions, investor, public auditors and officials.
• Maintains outstanding banking relationships and strategic alliances with vendors and business partners.
• Drives FP&A function process improvements and implements solutions that will result in more efficient collection, analysis, and reporting of information creating more capacity for strategic analysis and decision support.
• Creates pro-forma projections to determine the financial impact of various business strategies, scenarios and proposed investments.
• Maintains oversight of supplier and customer contracts and compliance.
• Manages legal affairs and provide support in a manner that minimizes potential liability.
• Monitors all open legal issues involving the company, and legal issues affecting the industry.
• Ensures that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• Manages risk management functions; oversees employee benefit plans, with particular emphasis on maximizing a cost-effective benefits package.
• Manages the IT function to ensure the enterprise is supported with appropriate business intelligence and empowering systems, including the full ERP and supporting modules suite of tools.

Desired Qualifications

• Strong leadership ability focused on mentorship, collaboration and team development.
• A strategic visionary with the ability to navigate through complex financial situations to maximize results.
• Strong analytical and accounting skills with hands on experience in both GL Accounting and FP&A.
• Ability to research, retrieve and organize data to prepare reports and financial documentation, set-up and maintain databases, and accurately perform complex financial analysis.
• Experience selecting and implementing ERP and other information reporting systems.
• Operations centric thinker.
• Provides timely data for operations decision making
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must have initiative, be a self-starter and be able to work in a demanding, high stress environment balancing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Able to work cooperatively with others as well as independently.
• Ability to influence cross-functional team members.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The team member is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.