Job Overview: 
Responsible for leading the Company’s SG&A consolidated management reporting. This role oversees the monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and results cycles, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and alignment across the organization. This position partners with finance and business leaders at both the corporate and functional levels to provide actionable insights, challenge assumptions, and drive forecast accuracy. This position will be the key business partner and financial liaison between the SG&A business area and finance. In tandem with the business, this role will liaise as necessary within and across functional areas to ensure the finances of the business are accurately accounted for, understood at the transactional level and reported in a timely and consistent manner. This role will also be responsible for overseeing Technology Capital Expenditure projects to ensure they meet financial hurdles and align to business objectives. In addition, this role plays a critical part in advancing process standardization, system adoption, and continuous improvement within Corporate FP&A.

What does it mean to be part of our Finance/Accounting Team? 
A role on our Finance and Accounting team involves helping UNFI maintain and grow its financial health as we continue to transform and scale. We need to ensure that our financial analysis and statements revolve around constant communication with our partners within the organization as well as outside to provide the most current statistics for our business health. By being attentive to details, trends, and inefficiencies, and communicating with our teams, you’ll be key to our success and continued growth as North America’s premier grocery wholesaler.  

Job Responsibilities: 
Core Responsibilities 

• Obtain and maintain an in depth understanding of the SG&A functional business including emerging business issues for translation in budgets, forecasts, analysis
• Lead, execute and own the annual SG&A budget process. This includes identifying key budget drivers, modelling proposed budget scenarios and partnering with the business to ensure there is alignment, agreement and that the budget truly represents the objectives of the business.
• Deliver periodic forecasts in partnership with the business adhering to bi-weekly timelines 
• Lead team through SG&A end of month close process encompassing a large number of transactions
• Analyze, document and communicate variations between actual results and budget, forecast, prior year as needed.
• Executive Deliverables: Prepare SG&A reporting packages, including variance analysis, trend identification, and performance commentary to support strategic decision-making.
• Process Standardization: Develop, standardize, and continuously improve forecasting and consolidation procedures to enhance accuracy, reduce cycle times, and establish lean practices.
• Technology Enablement: Adoption, and optimization of the Workiva platform to streamline SG&A reporting, automate commentary aggregation, and improve consistency across the enterprise.
• Strategic Planning: Support scenario modeling, and sensitivity analyses to guide capital allocation and SG&A transformation strategy.
• Insights & Analytics: Provide executive leadership with clear, data-driven insights into financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities; leverage historical accuracy analyses to challenge potential biases in divisional forecasts (e.g., overly conservative or aggressive trends).

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop senior analysts, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture focused on accountability, innovation, and professional growth.

  
  Additional Responsibilities 
   

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Wholesale FP&A, Controllership, Treasury and divisional finance teams to ensure integrity, alignment, and compliance of SG&A financial reporting.
• Governance & Controls: Strengthen financial governance by ensuring consistency in assumptions, methodologies, and reporting practices across business units.
• Executive Support: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, offering perspectives on enterprise financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process automation, technology enhancements, and best practices to elevate the efficiency and effectiveness of SG&A analysis.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

  
  Job Requirements: 
  Education/ Certifications: 
   

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent.

Experience: 

• 5+ years’ experience with accounting, financial planning, reporting, and analysis, process re-engineering and system implementations, and internal controls.

Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities:

• Highly motivated individual who will aggressively pursue knowledge of the business to produce better and more useful information to support decision making process.
• Strong experience with accounting, financial planning, reporting, and analysis, process re-engineering and system implementation, internal controls
• Excellent analytical and modeling skills, in-depth experience with financial statement analysis and a strong understanding of corporate finance concepts such as payback period, IRR and discounted cash flow and valuation methodologies.
• Extensive knowledge of financial systems (UFIN and Tableau).
• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.
  
  Work Environment: 
  Remote Role: 
   
• This position is classified as remote where the associate will perform remote work from their primary residence. Remote associates are welcome to work from the office but are not required to do so. While remote associates are not required to work from an office on a regular basis, they may be required to come to the office or other UNFI locations for necessary business reasons or if directed to do so by their manager.

Travel (minor): 

• This position may require the associate to travel to company offices, distribution centers, or other locations for specific meetings or other business reasons.

Physical Environment/Demands: 
Office Roles:
 

• Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment. 
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  
• Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephones, and other office equipment in the course of a normal workday. 
• Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in the completion of job duties.

About UNFI: We are North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering the widest variety of fresh, branded, and owned brand products to community grocers and retail chains alike. A pioneer in natural and organic foods, we are growing and transforming to meet the needs of an evolving workplace. Our 29,000+ employees work across America in our 50 Distribution Centers and corporate offices. Learn more: Organic, Natural and Conventional Food | Wholesale Food Distributors | UNFI
 

Benefits:  Competitive 401k, Flexible PTO plan, Remote, Health benefits – first of the month following 30 days of employment, mentorship program/developmental opportunities.