Sr Manager Finance, ZBB and Entity Cost Reporting

Title: Sr Manager Finance, ZBB and Entity Cost Reporting
Location: Eagle, ID
Job Requisition ID: Req-272098
Time Type: Full time

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

Leads zero-based budgeting (ZBB), entity cost reporting, and related corporate financial planning and reporting processes for Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses and corporate business support functions. Provides financial leadership across cost planning, allocations, salary planning, recurring Supply Chain and procurement inflation reporting, and planning-system governance. Ensures financial information is complete, accurate, controlled, and delivered on time while partnering across Finance and corporate functions to improve visibility, accountability, and decision support.

Job Description

- Leads the zero-based budgeting (ZBB) process for assigned corporate and entity cost areas, establishing planning expectations, coordinating inputs, challenging assumptions, and delivering accurate budgets and forecasts.

- Partners with Technology, Human Resources, Legal, Procurement, Finance, and other corporate business support functions to plan, analyze, and report Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) expenses and identify drivers of performance.

- Oversees SAP Controlling-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) allocation processes, including review of allocation logic, results, variances, and issue resolution to support accurate management reporting.

- Coordinates salary planning and related personnel cost forecasting for supported functions, partnering with Human Resources and Finance stakeholders to maintain accurate assumptions and reporting.

- Prepares and distributes weekly Supply Chain financial reports, analyzes significant changes or variances, and communicates relevant insights and follow-up actions to business partners.

- Leads procurement inflation reporting by consolidating inputs, validating financial impacts, analyzing trends and variances, and supporting timely communication of results.

- Maintains Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) access, including appropriate review, documentation, and coordination of access changes.

- Performs BPC validations, reconciliations, and tie-outs to confirm completeness and accuracy of planning and reporting data and resolves identified discrepancies.

- Manages BPC locks, data copies, and access requests in support of planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles while maintaining appropriate financial governance.

- Drives process improvements, documentation, standardization, and cross-functional alignment across ZBB, entity cost reporting, allocations, planning systems, and recurring financial reporting activities.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Position Requirements:

Education/ Certifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field required.

- MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.

Skills and Experience:

- 8+ years of progressive finance, financial planning and analysis, accounting, or related business experience, including experience supporting enterprise or corporate cost management.

- Experience leading complex cross-functional financial processes and influencing business partners across functions and leadership levels.

- Strong financial analysis, planning, forecasting, cost allocation, reconciliation, and management reporting capabilities.

- Working knowledge of SAP profitability and cost allocation processes; experience with SAP Controlling-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) is preferred.

- Experience with planning and consolidation systems; experience with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) or a comparable application is preferred.

- Knowledge of internal controls and financial governance, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control requirements associated with financial system access and reporting processes.

- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex data sets, identify variances, and translate results into clear business insights.

- Excellent communication, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple recurring deliverables and deadlines.

- People leadership or demonstrated experience leading through others is preferred.

Physical Environment/Demands:

- 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, telephone, and other office equipment in the course of the normal workday.

- Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.

- Some travel may be required based on business needs.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

- Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
- Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
- Paid Time Off
- Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
- Family-Friendly Employee events
- Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Anticipated Close Date
The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.
Anticipated Close Date: 12/26/2026

Pay Transparency
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.
Pay Rate or Range: $131,130.00 - $196,660.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law