At Russell Stover, not only do we love chocolate, but we love our jobs! Every day we go to work exhibiting our values of excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and collaboration. Working at Russell Stover you’ll be part of the leading manufacturer of boxed, seasonal, and sugar-free chocolates. For over 100 years, Russell Stover Chocolates, Whitman’s, and Pangburn’s have been crafted with the finest ingredients to bring happiness to generations. Today, we produce over 55 million pounds of chocolate annually, and our legacy brands can be found in 13 company-owned stores and over 9,000 wholesale accounts. Join our team and let’s continue making chocolate lovers happy! 

A day in the life…

As the Finance Manager - Sales Finance, you will be a key partner to the Sales departments to provide support for all financial aspects of their business units to ensure a high degree of financial oversight, cost optimization, planning and analysis. This is a role that is externally focused and enables the Sales and Marketing teams to accelerate profitable topline growth. You will need to have strong analytical skills, business acumen, and strong communication skills. In this position, you will work within the finance department with a high level of exposure to Senior Management including the CFO, VP of Sales, VP of Marketing, and the VP of Retail.

What you will be doing…

• Provide financial support to the Sales department as a copilot.
• Own and manage Gross to Net Sales and Trade Expenditure balance sheet.
• Own Commercial related monthly close process and reporting to Group.
• Own and improve Trade Promotional Management tool.
• Own and maintain Selling Operational Expense budget.
• Recommend actions to improve product mix, gross margin, as well as customer profitability.
• Analyze monthly variances vs plan, communicate results to management team.
• Lead and develop a team of Sales Analysts.
• Support key finance / company-wide planning processes including:
  • Annual Budget and Estimates throughout the year
  • Monthly S&OP & Rolling Forecast process
  • Support of Sales Plan Dialogue (SPD)

Do you have what it takes? 

(Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years Finance Management experience
• Experience leading or managing teams
• Strong Sales Finance and Trade finance experience
• Proficiency in Excel

Do you stand above the rest? 

(Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong understanding of Databases and Business Intelligence Tools (SAP BI, Hyperion, Cognos preferred)
• FMCG / CPG experience strongly preferred
• SAP experience (S4 / Hana preferred)

At Russell Stover Chocolates, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Russell Stover Chocolates is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.

Employment by Russell Stover Chocolates is contingent upon I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification, and satisfactory reference and background checks.

Make Happy. Work Happy.