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Position Summary This role will be the finance business partner to the Sr. Manager of Operations FP&A. The role will own all core financial aspects of Operations, including direct and indirect labor, as well as national field infrastructure, across the Company's approximately 900 locations. While the stores technically reflect a "Service Business," each location has aspects of a manufacturing shop floor:
- Ensure Direct and indirect materials on hand;
- Utilize Materials to assemble/consolidate into product;
- Perform the service or installation; and
- Quality test, deliver vehicle to customer, invoice.
Duties & Responsibilities
- In-depth analysis of labor and overhead, driving cost and cycle productivity across all stores.
- Lead segmentation of poor performing stores, actions plans and best practices tracking and adoption.
- Development and support of most critical financial and operational KPIs.
- Leverage Lean/Six Sigma tools to drive various forms of efficiency.
- Co-lead simplification of store pay plans, targeting more direct line of sight on pay for performance (productivity).
- Track Labor inflation and deflation as key components of total labor costs and productive work.
- Support (with Ops Leader) design of proper field structure and critical KPIs across field management.
- Co-lead annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and accompanying analysis for Operations.
- Lead Store Overhead initiative toward lower, more variable model.
- Lead presentations with Sr Executives, and support Board of Director meetings.
- Jointly responsible with SVP Ops for hitting core financial metrics.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, operations management or equivalent training required.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in manufacturing finance roles, or finance roles with multi-site, similar focus.
- Advanced expertise in Excel and overall proficiency in MS Office products.
- Strong working knowledge of financial statements (e.g., balance sheet, income statement and cash flow components).
- Strong problem-solving skills, organizational and project management skills.
- Strong analytical and statistical skills.
- Strong communication skills both verbally and in writing independently.
- Strong ability to drive change in a status quo environment.
- Customer service oriented, recognizing the importance of high-quality customer service.
- Exercises excellent professional judgment.
- Ability to multitask and manage large, complex projects in parallel.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing work accordingly.
- Adaptable to change in the organizational environment.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
- Repetitive movement of hands and fingers, typing or writing.
- Regular standing and walking.
- Reach with hands and arms.
- Frequent travel.
- Talk and hear.
- Ability to work under tight time constraints, handle sensitive date and multi-task so that deadlines can be met.
- High organized and able to prioritize and manage time efficiently with the ability to handle stress in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.
The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The characteristics described above are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. #LI-AE1
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Pep Boys
Oct 30, 2024