poppi Looking for Trade / Deductions Finance Sr. Manager at Austin, TX Full Time

What is Poppi?

We are so much more than a soda brand. We’re a passionate group of people dedicated to shaking up the soda scene for good one happy gut at a time- putting the fun back into functional with our delicious, better-for-you prebiotic soda line.

What You Will Do?

• Maintain and develop strong relationships with sales, finance, and accounting teams
• Manage all aspects of the company’s trade deduction activities, including audit and dispute processes
• Lead the maintenance of all relevant trade finance documentation and SOPs
• Inspect and review contract documents to maintain compliance with terms
• Assist in training for new hires and ongoing updates to process or systems
• Lead the month-end accrual process
• Guide trade clearing and settlement process to ensure all trades are cleared in partnership with sales, finance, and accounting teams
• Develop trade documentation guidelines and policies to promote efficiency and compliance
• Utilize input and output data to create KPIs and reporting to monitor trade deduction processes
• Assist in ad-hoc sales activity related requests including strategic analysis around trade effectiveness, ROI, scenario analysis, and price elasticity
• Assist in price monitoring processes and price guidelines
• Assist in materials and deliverables related to month-end close activities and strategic commercial meetings such as bi-weekly pricing council meetings and quarterly commercial review sessions

Your Goals and KPIs Will Be Focused Around:

• Onboard and implement a cash app/deductions and TPM tool
• Completeness and accuracy on promotion analysis
• Deduction auditing

What You Bring?

• Ability to work autonomously and manage people
• Understanding of opportunity cost/scenario analysis
• Driven and passionate about growing the business and achieving strategic milestones
• Adaptable, a quick learner, and takes it upon themselves to find answers
• Proven success working with sales leaders
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Your Background

• 7+ years of experience in a trade finance / deductions management position in the CPG industry and across multiple channel and product segments, preferably within a DSD Beverage fulfilled environment
• Extensive experience processing, analyzing and disputing deductions
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Analytical related field
• Experience working and documenting process in trade management systems
• Fluency in Microsoft Office suite

The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome all applicants to inform us confidentially if you may require special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience by emailing [email protected].

poppi is a pre-biotic soda company committed to an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace that respects and celebrates the unique contributions of each individual while ensuring we remain an equal opportunity employer that recruits, hires, trains and promotes based on merit and qualifications.