Manager of Operational Finance, Costing & Analysis

The North America Manager of Costing & Operational Analytics is responsible for maintaining and improving upon the existing cost accounting functions in support of manufacturing operations and supply chain management for the North America manufacturing plants. S/he will also be responsible for procurement finance analytics, driving for purchasing productivity and general operations FP&A.

This is an opportunity for a motivated manufacturing financial professional seeking longer term growth within manufacturing operations finance.

Responsibilities:

• Establish policies and processes for standard cost activity in partnership with global corporate accounting.
• Educate business partners, including manufacturing and product line management leaders, on concepts of standard costing
• Maintain accurate costing methodology in the ERP system, partnering with operations and engineering experts to ensure proper BOM, Routings, etc. are maintained.
• Maintain standard cost system to ensure accuracy of inventory valuation and lead annual manufacturing cost standard roll and analyze variances to standards.
• Monitor inventory transactions and processes including scrap, inventory, and COGS to ensure accuracy and compliance with corporate policies.
• Support monthly manufacturing and overhead variance research, analysis, and reporting, including labor/overhead absorption by site and product line
• Develop and roll out standard reporting to easily report and improve site productivity, while informing and educating business leaders
• Partner with global procurement to ensure adherence to policies, improving purchasing productivity, and generate informative PPV analysis for direct and indirect spend
• Support weekly manufacturing performance review reporting and meetings.
• Assists senior management teams in understanding costs, variances, and other operating measures, including product/SKU level margins through key strategic reports.
• Responsible for providing and verifying product costs in support of all cost-based pricing contracts, intercompany transfer pricing.
• Identify potential issues and coordinate issue resolution/problem solving with other functional teams.
• Act as costing SME to find resolution to costing issues, accounting transactions, and inventory movement transactions as required
• Provide support to global pricing, FP&A, and commercial teams to analyze product level costing to ensure continued margin expansion.
• Participates in the annual budgeting process, including preparation of standard costs.
• Drive the development of procedures and controls that ensure meaningful and reliable product costs and accurate inventories.
• Prepare for and participate in internal and external reviews and audits as required.
• Support manufacturing footprint optimization projects as required.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in finance or accounting, with a depth of skills in accounting (both financial and managerial), reporting, analysis, financial supply chain processes and procedures is necessary.
• Knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), especially as it relates to standard product costing is key to success in this role.
• Robust internal controls understanding and experience documenting processes and transactions.
• 5 plus years' cost accounting experience in a process manufacturing environment and a general understanding of industrial and/or automotive manufacturing.
• Oracle or a comparable ERP technology tool experience is necessary.
• Understanding ERP capabilities throughout the business operation is critical to success in the role.
• Expert knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, Excel and other data analytical tools is a must.

Desired Attributes:

• Strong communication skills, ability to present financial information in a meaningful understandable way and a capability to understand the big picture in terms of the Company's business process is important.
• Self-motivated with an ability to work independently and collaboratively and strong organizational skills are all essential.
• Good team building skills including trust, professionalism, the ability to garner consensus across diverse groups; ability to think strategically; yet have the desire to be hands-on when needed are all attractive qualities.
• Ability to drive results in a rapidly changing business environment is the key to future advancement.

The successful candidate will join a team committed to manufacturing excellence, continuous improvement, and member development. This person will enjoy developing solid business relationships with their counterparts in the materials, operations, and quality roles to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. Through those roles, this position will play a key role in providing impartial financial analysis and guidance, decision support, and development of financial acumen across the operations team and quality teams.