Commercial Finance Manager, North America Protective

Overview

Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance – a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact.

That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit

The Commercial Finance Manager is a strategic partner to the business, responsible for driving financial performance and supporting commercial decision-making through advanced financial analysis and leadership. This role partners closely with global finance and commercial teams to evaluate sales performance, customer profitability, pricing strategies, and market trends. This role provides oversight of P&L structure, ensuring transparency and accuracy, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify and understand key business drivers.

The manager supports closing, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes, delivering actionable insights that influence profitability and growth. Leadership responsibilities that includes supporting cross-functional financial projects.

• P&L Ownership and Analysis:
  Oversee and interpret the full P&L structure, ensuring accuracy and clarity of financial results. Analyze revenue streams, cost drivers, margins, and profitability trends to identify opportunities and risks. Provide strategic recommendations to senior leadership based on financial performance and market dynamics.
• Financial Planning and Forecasting:
  Lead development of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial plans for responsible profit centers. Drive alignment between commercial objectives and financial targets, ensuring robust scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Business Partnering:
  Act as a key liaison between finance and commercial teams, fostering collaboration to understand business performance drivers. Partner with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations to evaluate pricing strategies, customer profitability, and market trends. Influence decision-making through clear communication of financial insights and recommendations.
• Performance Management:
  Conduct variance analysis and identify root causes of deviations from targets. Use dashboards and reporting tools to monitor KPIs and support data-driven decisions.
• Customer Rebates:
  Manage customer rebate processes, including monthly monitoring of Sales Allowance entries with Customer Rebates team, maintaining rebate policies and procedures to ensure compliance and accuracy, and collaborating with shared services team to ensure account reconciliation accuracy.
• Compliance and Controls:
  Ensure compliance with local regulations and internal financial controls. Lead initiatives to enhance financial processes, reporting accuracy, and operational efficiency. Driving process improvements and implementing best practices.
• Month-End:
  Support month-end close processes including review of accruals, journal entries, and validation of P&L and balance sheet postings. Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in collaboration with accounting and other stakeholders. Ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting in collaboration with accounting and other cross-functional teams.
• Ad-hoc Analysis and Strategic Initiatives:
  Lead deep-dive analyses on sales performance, margin optimization, and customer profitability. Support strategic projects, including pricing reviews, cost optimization initiatives, and investment evaluations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance,…