Food manufacturing

Finance professionals in Food manufacturing

Food manufacturing finance professionals decide how to allocate money across production capacity, inventory, and distribution while managing raw material costs and demand swings. Learn which budget choices they made, what data drove their forecasts, and how they handled conflicts between keeping costs down and maintaining supply reliability.

10 professionals10 companiesData retrieved September 28, 2026

Professionals to explore

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  1. Arsalaan Arif

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Finance Specialty Operations Aseptic Beverage, Flavors & Grains Manufacturing Plants · Glanbia Nutrition

    Experience directing finance for specialty aseptic beverage, flavors and grains manufacturing plants within a food and beverage manufacturing company.

  2. Christian Koch

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Senior Director FP&A Global Procurement & Ingredient Manufacturing · The Campbell's Company

    Experience as senior finance director overseeing FP&A for procurement and ingredient manufacturing at a food and beverage manufacturing company.

  3. Jaime Joynt

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Controller FP&A Director · Denali Ingredients

    Experience as controller and FP&A director at an ingredients company serving ice cream, dairy, and bakery food production markets.

  4. Kalesh Menon

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Finance Director, India · Ingredion Incorporated

    Experience leading finance functions and financial and administrative operations for a food ingredients manufacturing company.

  5. Malcolm Pais

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Finance · F&S Fresh Foods

    Experience directing finance and serving as regional controller within food manufacturing companies producing prepared snacks and fresh food products.

  6. Nicholas Beyer

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Finance, Operations · Ventura Foods

    Experience directing operations finance, including controllership and financial management roles, at a food and beverage manufacturing company.

  7. Rob Filsak

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Commercial Finance Director · Finsbury Food Group

    Experience leading commercial finance, financial planning and analysis, and controllership functions at a specialty bakery food production and manufacturing company.

  8. Sarah Ashton FCA MBA

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Finance Director Biotexia, ABF Ingredients · Associated British Foods plc

    Experience as finance director within the ingredients division of a diversified international food and beverage manufacturing group.

  9. Terry Yu

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Finance Director, Strategic Planning and Control · Danone (China) Food & Beverage Co.,Ltd

    Experience leading strategic planning, control, and financial management functions within a food and beverage manufacturing company.

  10. Tracy Brandt

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Regional Finance Director · Michael Foods

    Experience leading regional finance operations, financial planning and analysis, and controllership for a food and beverage manufacturing company.

Choose the right perspective

Look for candidates who held budget or planning roles and can describe specific tradeoffs they resolved—not general processes. Ask them to walk through a real decision where they chose between competing needs, like spending more on safety stock versus freeing up cash, or investing in equipment versus outsourcing production.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01Tell me about a time your budget forecast was wrong. What did you learn, and how did you adjust?
  2. 02When production costs spiked or demand dropped unexpectedly, how did you decide what to cut or delay?
  3. 03Walk me through a decision where you had to choose between two options—like upgrading equipment or keeping older machines running. What made you pick one?

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