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$103,000.00 - $133,700.00JOB OVERVIEW:
The Finance “Co-Pilot” partners with business leaders to turn financial data into clear insights that improve decisions, performance, planning, and execution while maintaining financial discipline.This role challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and clarifies the financial impact of key decisions.
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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Strategic Partnership & Decision Support
- Advise leaders on strategic, operational, investment, and capital decisions.
- Assess risks, opportunities, trade-offs, business cases, ROI, and scenarios.
- Promote governance, controls, and stronger finance acumen across the function.
Financial Planning & Performance Management
- Support forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and performance reviews.
- Translate data into insights, explain variances, and recommend corrective actions.
Analytics, Insights & Storytelling
- Use COE dashboards, KPIs, models, and Data & Insights support to monitor performance and standardize analysis.
- Connect operational metrics to financial outcomes across functions.
- Deliver clear financial stories that support timely decisions.
Operational & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner across functions, the COE, peer co-pilots, and Data & Insights to align financial goals with execution.
- Reduce low-value ad hoc analysis by improving decision support, automation, and standard processes.
- Quantify benefits, track savings, validate results, and bring finance input into discussions early.
Governance & Financial Discipline
- Ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, governance standards, audit readiness, and data integrity.
- Balance financial rigor with practical business solutions.
Leadership & Capability Building
- Coach leaders and mentor junior finance team members to strengthen finance capability.
- Improve finance tools, processes, and ways of working.
- Key skills: Business Acumen; Vision and Purpose; Drive for Results; Influence without Authority; Sound Judgment.
Specifics to the function co-piloted
- Partner with Procurement Leadership to evaluate and support optimal sourcing, supplier, and spend-management decisions including
- Sourcing strategy development and financial analysis
- Supplier negotiations, and contract reviews
- Strategic supplier performance and risk assessment
- Analyze financial performance including
- Purchase price variance, inflation, and productivity with recommended corrective actions where necessary
- Identification, validation, and tracking of cost savings opportunities
- Strengthen procedures around supplier spend, purchase commitments, and contract compliance.
- Support procurement-related cash flow forecasting and working capital management, including supplier payment terms, purchase commitments, and inventory impacts.
- Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate inventory replenishment strategies, balancing services levels, cost efficiency, and cash flow objectives.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 6–10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
- Experience in a manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment.
- Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
- Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
- Combination of education, certifications, and commensurate experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer
EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability
WHY BLUE DIAMOND?
In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE .
Grow your career. Partner with us. We Are the Almond People!Ready to get started? Apply now!
Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. BDG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. BDG also complies with all provisions of the U.S. Government's Executive Order 11246 dated September 24, 1965 and the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor.Skills Required
- 6-10+ years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering, FP&A, or operational finance.
- Experience in a manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain, or complex operational environment.
- Experience partnering with Procurement on sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, contract reviews, and supplier performance/risk assessment.
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills with ability to synthesize complex data.
- Experience with forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, and performance reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (or combination of education/certifications and commensurate experience).
- MBA or CPA.
Blue Diamond Growers Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Blue Diamond Growers and has not been reviewed or approved by Blue Diamond Growers.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits menu includes multiple HMO/PPO medical options, dental and vision coverage, an EAP, life and long‑term disability, plus optional protections and a wellness program. The breadth and add‑ons present a comprehensive health and protection suite.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a tiered employer match and Roth/in‑plan conversion is offered, with indications of immediate vesting. This structure is positioned as a solid component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, vacation, sick time, and family or statutory leaves (parental, bereavement, military, jury duty) are available, with eligibility varying by status/tenure. The portfolio covers common leave needs across life events.
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What We Do
Blue Diamond Growers is on a global mission to share the benefits of almonds with the world. Blue Diamond Growers is the world's largest almond processing and marketing company. We are the world’s leading almond brand, and we’re focused on building markets and creating new products to deliver the benefits of almonds to the world. Made up of more than 3,000 growers, we’re cooperatively owned by half of the state's almond growers who produce over 80 percent of the world almond supply. The California almond crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, the sixth largest U.S. food export and the #1 specialty crop in America. We keep that market-leading position by remaining strategically ahead of the curve, with continual innovations in our award-winning processing plants and information technology systems that have grown by leaps and bounds to support global growth. Our biggest point of differentiation, though, is our people. Through cooperation and teamwork, we, the Almond People as we’re affectionately known, deliver the best-tasting, highest-value almonds and almond products in the world. This is an exciting time at Blue Diamond where every team member can showcase their talents and contribute in new and innovative ways to drive accomplishments. The opportunity is here for each of us to step up, take our futures in hand and find new ways to achieve at Blue Diamond. We’re building on our strengths, learning as we go, trusting one another and realizing unprecedented levels of success. Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
