Senior Financial Planning & Analysis
Ircagroup · Duluth, GA · onsite
A good food story is built on layers—inside, where quality and performance excel, and outside, where artistry shines. Through IRCA Group’s diverse capabilities, premium ingredients, and innovative solutions, they empower chefs and the food industry to create without limits, making the extraordinary simple at every step.
IRCA Group is a global leader in high-quality food ingredient production, specializing in chocolates, creams, fillings, fruits, pistachios, and chocolate and sugar decorations. Its brands include: IRCA since 1919, Dobla, JoyGelato, Ravifruit, Cesarin, Domori and Graffiti Sprinkles, each with its own unique history, specialties and positioning in the market.
With over 100 years of Italian heritage, IRCA operates 21 production facilities across Europe,
the U.S., and Vietnam, serving customers in more than 100 countries. With more than 2,000 employees globally, IRCA Group continues its focus on expansion via acquisition and organic growth. With strong support from Advent, the private equity firm that acquired IRCA in 2022, IRCA Americas is expanding its footprint with new and increased domestic capabilities, particularly in chocolate, fillings, and decorations. In the US, IRCA Group has offices and manufacturing facilities near Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco and St. Louis. In 2023 IRCA Group had a combined revenue of €1 billion.
The FP&A Manager will report to the Director, FP&A, and will support the end-to-end financial planning and analysis and partner with senior leaders to provide guidance to management and provide value-added insights into the business. The manager will also drive a comprehensive process for developing financial plans and corresponding forecasts for all business objectives.
We are requiring someone to work onsite at our plant located in Duluth, GA.
Responsibilities:
- Budgeting and forecasting: Lead the bottom-up annual budget, interim forecasts and monthly outlooks for the Americas, including Gross Margin estimate and SG&A costs, and turn the methodology into the backbone of monthly performance reviews.
- Variance analysis: Perform critical analysis of Monthly results and collect and synthesize business insights on variances
- Insight for leadership and the Board: Analyze monthly results, explain variances in plain business terms and deliver the financial content for leadership and Board decks. Support business cases and the integration of acquired businesses as part of our M&A agenda.
- Automation and scale: Automate data flows and turn one-off analyses into reliable, recurring reporting processes.
- Product and customer profitability. Build and own SKU (product) and customer-level profitability models that link revenue, raw materials, conversion costs and operating expenses. Partner with Pricing, Sales, Procurement and Operations to pinpoint the true margin drivers and close the gap between contracted and actual margins
- Sourcing and raw material economics. Compare contractual pricing assumptions with actual supplier costs, surface margin leakage and unprofitable contracts, quantify the impact and give management a recurring view that sharpens pricing and procurement decisions. Track and validate Procurement savings initiatives.
- Reporting integrity: Review GL accounts, cost centers and P&L mapping, fix misclassifications at the root with Accounting, HR and headquarters, and embed standardized allocation frameworks that make monthly results accurate and comparable.
Qualifications:
- Education. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Engineering.
- Experience. 3+ years in FP&A, commercial finance or cost accounting, ideally in manufacturing, food or ingredients.
- Cost accounting and variance analysis. Hands-on experience building and analyzing detailed, multi-site P&Ls. A track record of investigating manufacturing variances, reviewing GL and cost-center allocations and quantifying the financial impact of what you find.
- Profitability and pricing analysis. Experience building product- and customer-level profitability models that support pricing and customer portfolio decisions.
- Forecasting and budgeting. Bottom-up forecasting and budgeting experience, including designing methodologies and coordinating inputs across functions.
- Tools. Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP systems and BI tools (e.g., Power BI) is a strong plus.
- Communication. The ability to go from granular detail to a crisp executive narrative, and to influence stakeholders at every level.
- Mindset. Hands-on, curious and driven by ownership: you dive into the details without losing sight of the big picture.
- Languages. Italian or Spanish is a plus.
Irca Group offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:
Medical, Dental, & Vision, 401(k) matching, Paid Vacation, and Holidays, Employee Education Tuition Reimbursement Program