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Ardent Mills

Flour milling and plant-based ingredient supplier

FP&A Manager - Commercial

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDenver, CO, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • At least 8 years of relevant experience is required, including progressive Finance and Accounting experience in financial planning, business analysis, management reporting, or Finance business partnering.
  • Experience supporting a business unit, P&L, or commercial organization and partnering directly with business leaders to drive financial performance and decision-making is required.
  • Experience developing financial models, forecasts, business cases, scenario analyses, and investment evaluations to support strategic and operational decisions is required.
  • Strong understanding of business and financial value drivers, including the financial implications of commercial and operational decisions, is required.
  • Strong capabilities in financial analysis, modeling, planning, forecasting, management reporting, and translating complex data into actionable business insights are required.
  • Ability to connect financial performance to business strategy, identify risks and opportunities, challenge assumptions, and develop practical recommendations is required.
  • Ability to independently manage significant Finance business partnerships, exercise sound judgment on complex financial and business matters, advise and influence business leaders, and constructively challenge decisions while maintaining credibility and trust is required.
  • Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation abilities are required to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and credibly to financial and non-financial audiences, including senior leaders.
  • Accountability for driving outcomes and delivering high-quality results is required.
  • Ability to work effectively across functions, perspectives, and organizational levels is required.
  • Ability to lead adoption of new planning tools, processes, decision routines, and ways of working, including stakeholder readiness and sustained use, and to quickly build knowledge of the business, industry, systems, and evolving Finance capabilities is required.
  • Approximately 10% travel is required.

Responsibilities

  • Drive financial performance across supported businesses and functions by anticipating needs, identifying risks and opportunities, and translating financial insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Strengthen financial acumen across partner teams by connecting operational and commercial decisions to financial outcomes and aligning business assumptions, actions, and expected results.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment and resolve conflicting assumptions or priorities across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, R&D, and Finance.
  • Develop financial models and business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives, new product launches and innovations, customer opportunities, pricing decisions, capital investments, acquisitions, and other growth opportunities.
  • Perform cost/benefit, capitalization, scenario, and return analyses; support CIRs and deal modeling; and track performance and value realization against approved business cases and assumptions.
  • Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management for Emerging Nutrition, while supporting planning and forecasting needs across assigned Commercial functions.
  • Develop financial models incorporating key business drivers and scenarios, including volume, pricing, contribution margin, customer/product profitability, market share, new products, SG&A, headcount, working capital, and other relevant value drivers.
  • Own actual and forecast performance against financial objectives, plans, prior forecasts, and strategic targets; identify performance gaps, headwinds/tailwinds, root causes, and key drivers.
  • Partner with leaders to develop actionable plans to close performance gaps and capture opportunities, clearly defining financial impact, key levers, timing, ownership, and expected results.
  • Provide timely management reporting, financial analysis, and decision support that enables leaders to understand performance, evaluate risks and opportunities, and make informed business decisions.
  • Define and monitor meaningful KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards; analyze revenue, margins, customer/product profitability, pricing and price realization, market trends, commercial deal economics, and other key performance drivers.
  • Partner across FP&A and Finance functions, Commercial, Operations and Supply Chain, and other functions to deliver integrated financial support and continuously improve reporting, forecasting, analytics, data, tools, and decision-support processes.
  • Provide predictive analytics, data-modeling fluency, common data definitions, and partnership on self-service analytics and automation.
  • Serve as the dedicated Finance business partner to Emerging Nutrition and a key Finance partner across the broader Ardent Mills Commercial organization.
  • Own significant Finance business partnerships and provide end-to-end financial support and ownership across the Emerging Nutrition P&L while partnering with Commercial leaders across Sales, Marketing, R&D, Strategic Pricing, and other functions.
  • Advise business leaders and provide financial planning, performance management, business analysis, and decision support to evaluate opportunities, improve financial outcomes, and advance strategic priorities.
  • Build concise executive narratives integrating performance, outlook, risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and a clear call to action.
  • Participate as a member of the Emerging Nutrition leadership team to help Emerging Nutrition and the broader Commercial organization achieve financial and strategic objectives.

Desired Qualifications

  • An MBA, CMA, FPAC, FPAP, or other relevant advanced credential or certification is preferred.
  • Experience with commercial financial analysis, including pricing, margin, customer/product profitability, and new product/business cases, is preferred.

About the Company

Ardent Mills

Flour milling and plant-based ingredient supplier

Ardent Mills operates a network of more than 35 community flour mills and mixing facilities across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico to produce and supply flours and grain ingredients to food manufacturers and bakeries. It mills and blends grains into multi-use flours and whole-grain ingredients, using farming, food technology, and milling expertise to support a range of food applications, including plant-based formulations. The company differentiates itself with a widespread, customer-focused mill network and a broad product line that emphasizes plant-based solutions, delivering integrated farming, processing, and product development in one partnership. Its goal is to transform how the world is nourished by expanding plant-based options and acting as a trusted partner across agriculture, technology, and milling.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Denver, CO
Founded
2014

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