Title:  Trade Spending Analysis Manager

Are you ready to lead financial transformation, streamline trade spending processes, and inspire a high-performing team across Latin America? As a LATAM Trade Spending Analysis Manager at Kellanova, you will play a critical leadership role in overseeing trade deductions, credit notes, and AR balances, while driving operational excellence across the region. Based in Querétaro, Mexico, this position manages direct and indirect teams, engages with senior commercial and finance stakeholders, and leads process improvement and compliance initiatives.

This is your opportunity to shape strategic financial outcomes into a dynamic, cross-functional, and multicultural environment with broad regional and executive visibility.

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and Inspire Cross-Regional Teams: Directly manage 2 Process Owners and indirectly lead a team of 13 across Latin America. Create engagement, reinforce operational discipline, and foster a high-performance, collaborative culture.
• Own the Trade Spending and Deduction Process: Ensure accurate and timely execution of trade deductions, credit generation, and AR reconciliation. Maintain strong control and visibility of balances and aged deductions.
• Drive Stakeholder Collaboration and Financial Governance: Act as a key partner to Commercial Finance, Sales Leadership, and GBS peers to resolve issues, improve alignment, and provide financial transparency across the business.
• Champion Process Automation and Compliance: Promote simplification and automation of the E2E ITC process, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, SOX, and statutory requirements across all operations.
• Coach, Standardize, and Build Operational Excellence: Support talent development, spread best practices, and lead initiatives that deliver continuous improvement, process standardization, and operational stability.

We’re Looking for Someone With

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field (Master’s preferred) and 5+ years of experience in finance operations, accounting, or shared services.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams and driving performance through coaching, feedback, and engagement—must already be in a managerial position.
• Strong technical background in financial closings, trade deduction processes, AR reconciliation, and credit note generation within a regional or global shared services model.
• Business fluency in English (C1) is required.
• Proven ability to work across multiple geographies, manage stakeholders at various organizational levels (Commercial Finance Directors, Sales Leaders, CFOs), and handle complex, multicultural team dynamics.
• Technical proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint), with a strategic mindset focused on compliance, risk management, and automation.

What’s Next

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.

If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for more specific information.

Get to Know Us

At Kellanova, we are driven by our vision to be the world’s best-performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of our differentiated brands and our passionate people. Our portfolio of iconic, world-class brands include Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, MorningStar Farms, Special K, Krave, Zucaritas, Tresor, Crunchy Nut, among others.

Kellanova’s Culture of Best means we bring our best to all that we do in pursuit of our vision to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse. Our culture celebrates boldness and empowers our people to challenge the status quo, achieve results, and win together.Our focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) enables us to build a culture of belonging where all employees have a place at the table and are inspired to share their passion, talents and ideas to work.

Mars has agreed to acquire Kellanova in a combination that will shape the future of snacking! The transaction is anticipated to close within the first half of 2025 (subject to Kellanova shareowner approval and other customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals). The companies remain separate until closing.

You can learn more at www.futureofsnacking.com, and our hiring teams will be happy to discuss further questions if your application advances in the hiring process.

Let’s shape the future of snacking.

Kellanova is an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to provide an inclusive work environment, a seat for everyone at the table, and embraces the diverse talent of its people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding our efforts to advance Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, please visit our website here.