Job Description
THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- A lean, collaborative Finance & Accounting organization supporting a 12-site manufacturing footprint across the U.S. and Canada
- A finance team that works closely with plant operations to understand the financial drivers behind manufacturing performance
- A role reporting directly to the Finance Manager with regular interaction across finance, accounting, and operations
- A collaborative environment where finance and accounting work together and support one another across responsibilities when needed
- Direct exposure to the CFO, Finance Manager, Accounting Manager, and plant leadership across the organization
- An opportunity to support multiple manufacturing locations rather than being dedicated to the financial performance of a single plant
- A team that expects finance to understand what is happening operationally and translate that activity into meaningful financial insight
- An opening created as the person currently in the position transitions into another role within the organization
LOCATION
- Primarily remote
- Corporate office located in Charlotte, NC, with occasional office presence possible for Charlotte-area employees around month-end or leadership visits
What They Offer You - Broad exposure across a 12-site North American manufacturing organization rather than responsibility for a single facility
- The opportunity to combine manufacturing finance, cost accounting, and FP&A within one position
- Direct partnership with plant operations around production performance, cost drivers, productivity, and profitability
- Exposure to senior finance leadership, including the Finance Manager and CFO
- Ownership of meaningful budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, and operational reporting responsibilities
- The opportunity to work with Power BI as the organization continues developing its financial reporting and KPI capabilities
- Exposure to capital investment analysis, cost-saving initiatives, and other projects that directly impact operational decision-making
- A primarily remote environment with the ability to work across geographically dispersed manufacturing operations
WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT
- This position serves as an important connection between corporate finance and plant operations, helping leadership understand what is driving financial performance across the manufacturing network
- A major focus will be analyzing manufacturing performance across material usage, labor, overhead, scrap, yield, volume, mix, and other cost drivers
- Partner closely with operations to uncover the root causes behind variances and identify opportunities to improve cost, productivity, and profitability
- Take an active role in plant-level budgeting, rolling forecasts, and production and cost planning across the organization
- Provide financial insight into production performance, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, cost trends, new product costing, and pricing analysis
- Monthly financial reporting, dashboards, performance summaries, and KPIs will provide leadership with greater visibility into plant performance
- Cost-reduction and process-improvement initiatives will create opportunities to evaluate financial impact and support capital projects through ROI and payback analysis
- Help strengthen financial models, reporting tools, and ERP data accuracy as the organization continues improving its finance processes
- Month-end accounting is not the primary focus, but the role will provide support around accruals, reconciliations, inventory analysis, and manufacturing results when needed
- Ultimately, this is an opportunity to go beyond reporting what happened and become a finance partner who helps operations understand why it happened and what to do next
THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field
- Financial analysis, plant finance, cost accounting, or FP&A experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Strong understanding of cost accounting, standard costing, and manufacturing operations
- Hands-on experience analyzing manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, scrap, yield, volume, and mix
- Understanding of WIP accounting, overhead absorption, inventory, and standard cost maintenance
- Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting
- Ability to work directly with plant and operations leaders and translate complex financial information into actionable operational insights
- Experience supporting multiple plants, business units, or manufacturing locations is highly valuable
- Strong Excel skills, including experience working with lookups, pivot tables, and financial data analysis
- Experience working within a manufacturing ERP environment; SAGE experience is a plus
- Power BI experience is valuable, although experience with Tableau or a comparable reporting and visualization platform can translate well
- Previous exposure to month-end activities such as accruals, reconciliations, and inventory analysis is helpful
- Experience evaluating capital projects, ROI, cost-saving initiatives, or operational improvement projects is valuable
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across finance, accounting, plant leadership, and operations
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Job Tags
Full time, Work at office