Vice President- Operations - Greenwich, CT
1 day ago
Job description
Job Title:
Vice President- Operations & Finance
Reports to:
Managing Partner
Location:
Onsite- Greenwich, CT
Status:
FT/Exempt
About the Company:
Amphora Equity Partners is a newly formed private equity firm that makes control investments in the North American packaged food and beverage sector. The firm focuses on well-established branded products and contract manufacturing businesses in which it can support management teams to drive real value creation through operational excellence and follow-on acquisitions.
Role Overview:
The Vice President – Operations & Finance will support Amphora's growing portfolio of food and beverage brands. This role is a hybrid of FP&A, operational finance, and M&A, serving as a critical partner to investment, operations, and portfolio leadership teams.
The VP will conduct financial planning and transaction-related diligence while helping drive operational excellence and value creation across the portfolio. This position requires deep experience in CPG-focused M&A, combined with strong operational and analytical capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Operational and financial diligence for
food and beverage companies. I
n-depth financial modeling, consumer and category analysis, and supply chain evaluation. - Oversee and validate quality of earnings. Develop working capital, cash flow, and balance sheet analyses.
- Provide detailed assumptions for transaction models, valuation analyses, and return scenarios.
- Support deal structuring and seller transition services alongside portfolio leadership.
- Perform detailed reviews of plant-level financials, inventory reconciliation, and cost accounting practices during diligence.
- Assess manufacturing, supply chain, and working capital risks through on-site reviews and operational data analysis.
- Develop and oversee portfolio-level and company-level FP&A processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
- Build and maintain scalable financial reporting and KPI dashboards.
- Analyze unit economics, margins, pricing, trade analysis and cost structures to support decision-making.
- Evaluate manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, and inventory management performance, inclusive of co-manufacturers and co-packers.
- Support capacity planning, demand forecasting, and inventory optimization initiatives.
- Identify and execute margin expansion, cost reduction, and working capital optimization opportunities.
- Analyze and improve plant-level cost structures, standard costing models, and variance reporting.
- Perform reviews of bill of materials, labor and overhead absorption, and yield/scrap metrics.
- Support implementation of systems, reporting processes, and controls post-close.
- Partner with portfolio leadership on add-on acquisitions, refinancings, and exit preparation.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in large food and beverage company M&A group, CPG-focused investment banking, private equity, or transaction advisory firm.
- Demonstrated experience with complex M&A transactions and end-to-end diligence processes.
- Strong background in FP&A, financial and accounting diligence, and operational finance.
- Comprehensive understanding of the CPG ecosystem, including retailers, distributors, co-manufacturers, and internal manufacturing operations.
- Proven knowledge of plant-level accounting, including inventory reconciliation, standard costing, variance analysis, and yield/scrap management.
- Experience evaluating cost structures, bill of materials, labor and overhead absorption, and manufacturing efficiencies.
- Strong understanding of supply chain and operational metrics, including fill rates, service levels, inventory turns, capacity utilization, and logistics costs.
- Experience supporting post-merger integration and financial and operational systems implementation.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a strong emphasis on Excel for financial modeling and scenario analysis and PowerPoint for executive presentations.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting, quality of earnings, and transaction structures within a CPG environment.
- Experience with syndicated data sources (SPINS, Nielsen, Circana) is a plus.
- Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
- Self-directed, entrepreneurial, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.
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