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Commercial Finance Manager, North America Protective

Sealed Air
United States, North Carolina, Charlotte
Jan 15, 2026
Job Description Commercial Finance Manager, North America Protective SEE Headquarters - Charlotte Requisition ID: 53640 If you are a current employee click here to apply. 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. Westrive 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 Airgenerated $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 www.sealedair.com. Position Summary 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. Key Responsibilities * 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. Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field (Master's Degree preferred). * A minimum of 5-7 years of demonstrated experience in a financial role, with at least 2 years in a managerial or leadership capacity. * Strong understanding of P&L structure and commercial profitability drivers. * Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to present financial information clearly and effectively to both finance and non-finance stakeholders. * Experience with financial reporting tools (SAP, OneStream, PowerBI). Strong analytical and financial modeling skills. Skilled in Microsoft Office software (primarily, but not limited to, Excel). * Excellent communication and business partnering skills. * Commercial awareness and understanding of profitability drivers. Desired Attributes * Strategic thinker with strong business acumen. * Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment * Results-oriented with strong attention to detail * Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage complexity. * Proactive, hands-on approach to work. Requisition id:53640 Relocation:No Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Please be cautious of fraudulent recruiting efforts using the Sealed Air name or logo. Sealed Air will never request private information during the application process, such as a Driver's License or Social Security Number. If you have any concerns about information received from SEE during the application process, please reach out to us directly at globalta@sealedair.com. LINK1 MON1 Information at a Glance WHY WORK AT SEALED AIR?* It is our responsibility to leverage what we have to affect positive and meaningful change for our communities and planet using Sealed Air's global resources and expertise. Corporate sustainability - it's about improving the lives of people around the world by addressing pressing needs in the communities where we and our customers operate. Customer Success - meeting our customers' needs. At Sealed Air it's more than a goal, it's an integral part of our business practices, our innovative solutions, and our values. Leaving our communities better than we found them through dedication of time, talent and resources.