Finance Business Partner

About Us:

Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading, vertically integrated manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent, cutting-edge equipment, and a vertically integrated supply chain, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers-first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen's, Dutch Bros beverages and Nurri, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages - and about building a team that's just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

Position Overview:

Responsibilities:

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Serve as the primary finance point of contact for the BU [Business Unit], partnering closely with the BU Lead and functional leaders
• Provide financial analysis and insights to support:
• • Pricing and margin decisions
  • Trade spend and promotional effectiveness
  • Customer, channel, and product profitability
  
  
• Identify key cost drivers across materials, labor, overhead, logistics, and conversion costs
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to explain cost movements, productivity impacts, and operational tradeoffs within financial analyses
• Support evaluation of new initiatives, business cases, and growth opportunities

Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead the BU's annual budget, rolling forecast, and periodic outlook updates
• Prepare and explain monthly financial results, including:
  
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    • Variance analysis vs. budget and forecast
    • Key performance cost drivers and trends
    
    
  
  
• Support monthly business reviews by highlighting risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
• Help improve forecast accuracy and financial transparency for the BU

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Support

• Act as the finance lead for the BU as part of the weekly/monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, partnering across:
  
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    • Demand planning, Supply planning,and Production, Materials, and Resource (PMR) planning
    
    
  
  
• Translate demand and supply scenarios into financial impacts, including revenue, margin, inventory, and net working capital implications
• Support scenario planning by quantifying tradeoffs related to:
  
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    • Capacity constraints
    • Service level decisions
    • Inventory positioning
    • Cost and margin impacts
    
    
  
  
• Provide financial input and validation during IBP meetings to support fact-based decision-making

Commercial & Operational Analysis

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to understand volume, mix, pricing, and end-to-end cost drivers
• Analyze manufacturing and supply chain impacts on BU financial performance
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by quantifying financial benefits tied to cost reduction, productivity, and efficiency efforts
• Track and report on key KPIs, ensuring insights are clear, relevant, and actionable

Process, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain financial models, dashboards, and reporting tools to support BU decision-making
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, data quality, and reporting efficiency
• Ensure alignment with finance policies, controls, and standard processes

Collaboration & Communication

• Work cross-functionally to ensure financial implications are understood and considered in BU decisions
• Clearly communicate financial information to non-finance stakeholders in a practical, business-focused way
• Escalate key risks or issues to finance leadership as appropriate

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• 4-7 years of experience in finance, FP&A, or commercial finance
• Experience partnering with business, sales, or operations leaders
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills
• Solid understanding of P&L drivers in a manufacturing or CPG environment
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

Preferred

• CPG, food & beverage, or consumer products experience
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Exposure to ERP or planning systems
• MBA, CPA, or CMA (a plus, not required)

Success in This Role Looks Like

• BU leaders rely on you for clear, timely financial insight
• Forecasts are accurate, well-understood, and actionable
• Financial tradeoffs are surfaced early and clearly
• Decisions improve because finance is involved before, not after

Hours, Location and Pay:

We offer a competitive base pay rate and comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. This role works standard business hours Monday through Friday at our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility.

Physical and Mental Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone.
• Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
• Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exist.

Safety Statement:

At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee's first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.

Disclosures:

• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
• Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
• Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
• EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
• If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at HR@trilliantfood.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
• The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.