Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

Business Finance & Accounting Leader

The Accounting and Finance organization is a mission and results driven team that operates with a strong sense of collaboration to support the business, while utilizing our technical expertise, as we manage processes to record, reconcile, and report all financial activity of the enterprise. We bring financial context into the picture when partnering with the lines of business, senior and executive management, and our board of directors.

We are seeking a Business Finance & Accounting Leader that will report to the Area Sr. Finance Manager - Great Lakes Region. This individual will be responsible for one or two manufacturing plants and will demonstrate the ability to influence plant personnel through fact-based analysis, provide insights into recommendations, analysis and drive improvements in operations, sales and the overall profitability of the plant. The Business Finance & Accounting Leader will be a business partner to the site General Manager and accountable for the bottom-line results of the facilities.

Responsibilities :

• Budget & Financial preparation and reporting.
• Prepares annual budget and quarterly forecasts in conjunction with the plant General Manager with a goal of forecast accuracy.
• Utilizes KPIs and plant initiatives to project future plant growth opportunities, encourage going beyond just the traditional product cost.
• Collaborates with Commercial Business leads to challenge and validation of top line revenue expectations.
• The Business Finance and Accounting Leader should be able to effectively communicate the organizations values.
• Creates simplified budget and reporting processes.
• Balances financial and non-financial indicators.
• Leads monthly results communication through routine presentation and clear reports, articulating key impactful items to the business results.
• Monitors weekly results tracking, providing recommendations to drive actions to achieve or exceed targets. Timely communication with Plant / Area leaders and finance team.
• Serves as a consultant to business partners to help develop action plans for improvement.
• Cost takeout support, review and tracking.
• Strategic Planning (CAPEX)
• Partners with the General Manager on future and long-range Capital needs to sustain and or grow the sites business opportunities.
• Understands competitor strengths and weaknesses.
• Timely closure of all capital projects after in-service date.
• Develops financial models for return generating projects. Makes the plants accountable to deliver financial commitment after project completion, by tracking investment returns monthly to ensure project returns are achieved.
• Conducts post audits for the projects after maturity.
• Internal Controls
• The Business Finance and Accounting Leader is accountable for overseeing all internal controls and failures of the site(s).
• They ensure decisions are made by those with authority to do so.
• They ensure key processes follow documented company policies, such as non-compliant PCard / Travel & Expenses spending, inventory, AVM / RNV (automated voucher match / received not vouchered).
• They ensure adequate control over the companys local assets and financial reporting, performing quarterly balance sheet reviews with accounting.
• They find the right balance between effectiveness in value creation and control efficiency.
• Responsible for optimizing processes through IT improvement and implementation.
• Drives process improvements through the utilization of best practices across the organization.
• Annual fixed assets audit.
• Profitability Analysis
• Leverages data systems to provide ongoing customer profitability analysis to help catch and correct margin erosion.
• Leads routine analysis to ensure the customer level profitability analysis is aligned with overall plant performance and cost profile.
• Routine assessment of customer and product outliers to drive corrective actions on cost models and allocations.
• Facilitates open discussion among business leaders on how to drive more margin through volume, price or operational changes.
• Provides or reviews PAT (profit analysis tool) for current and new customers, including information for legal contracts and credit risk / payment terms approvals.
• Drives people staffing discussion to right size overtime, number of shifts and headcounts.
• Accounting
• Actively reviews and validates plant WIP, Finished Goods and raw materials values.
• Creation and / or review of site monthly Journal Entries.
• Review P&L accounts and statistical data for the necessary reclassification.
• Facilitates and assists with plant inventory counts, count verifications and reconciliation processes.
• Monitors customer rebates and / or cost takeout commitments for accuracy and consistency.
• Other tasks as deemed necessary.
• Working Capital / Cash flow monitoring
• Serves as the facilitator to their business partners on decision making processes that drive working capital improvements or that prevent negative impacts.
• Partners with accounts receivable team to remedy short-term issues and create plans to act on the route case problems.
• Provides guidance and support for plant personnel on the execution of purchase order and receipts procedures.
• Ad Hoc Analysis
• Plant Comps in performance to other "like" plants or businesses.
• Profitability Improvement programs if the plant is on an improvement plan.
• Compiling and delivering plant visit decks to Senior leadership during onsite or Teams meetings.
• Continuous education of plant key personnel on the set of information available, and how to use the data such as reports, visualization tools, etc.

This set of duties is not intended to be a catch-all for the other ad hoc requests of the plant and or the divisions needs. What you need to succeed :

What we offer :

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.