Director, FP&A – Manufacturing Growth & Strategy

Versique Executive, Professional & Interim Recruiting; Maple Grove (MN); On-site; USD 225,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Versique Executive, Professional & Interim Recruiting is seeking a seasoned finance leader for a high-visibility, multi-plant FP&A role. You will partner with the CFO, plant leadership, and business stakeholders to convert forecasts and profitability insights into actionable plans.

Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in manufacturing finance, lead budgeting and forecasting, and excel at financial modeling, KPI development, and senior‑level communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 8-12+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant FP&A experience.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably supporting multiple plants, business units, or geographic locations.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing financial drivers, cost accounting, and operational performance metrics.
• Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance management processes.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow drivers.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing costs, standard costing, and production variances.
• Ability to partner effectively with plant leadership and operational teams to understand business drivers and improve financial performance.
• Experience presenting financial results, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
• Experience with ERP, FP&A, business intelligence, and financial reporting systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with a hands-on approach and strong financial discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual operating plans, budgets, long-range planning, and rolling forecasts across multiple plants and business units.
• Develop and maintain forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, EBITDA, working capital, and cash flow.
• Establish consistent planning processes, assumptions, timelines, and financial standards across the organization.
• Partner with plant managers, plant controllers, and operational leaders to develop realistic, driver-based financial plans.
• Improve forecast accuracy through enhanced financial modeling, analytics, scenario planning, and accountability.
• Establish a consistent FP&A framework for evaluating plant and manufacturing performance.
• Analyze plant profitability, productivity, labor, material costs, overhead, and operating expenses.
• Evaluate production volumes, capacity utilization, labor efficiency, scrap, yield, material usage, and other key operational metrics.
• Identify performance gaps and partner with operational leaders to develop corrective actions and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Lead monthly financial performance reporting for executive and business leadership, clearly communicating results versus budget, forecast, and prior year.
• Develop consistent KPIs, performance dashboards, and management reporting across plants and business units.
• Translate financial results into actionable insights, highlighting key risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
• Analyze revenue, pricing, volume, mix, gross margin, and profitability across products, customers, plants, and business units.
• Partner with commercial leadership to evaluate pricing decisions, customer profitability, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Support strategic decisions through financial modeling and analysis related to capital investments, acquisitions, capacity expansion, restructuring, and make-versus-buy opportunities.
• Partner with Treasury, Operations, Supply Chain, and plant leadership to improve working capital, inventory turns, and cash flow performance.
• Develop working capital forecasts and identify opportunities to reduce excess and obsolete inventory.
• Continuously improve FP&A processes, tools, models, and reporting, including opportunities to automate manual activities.
• Partner with Finance Systems & Analytics leadership to improve ERP integration, data quality, reporting capabilities, and financial planning processes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop FP&A professionals while establishing consistent practices and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Skills

FP&A

Manufacturing finance

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial modeling

ERP systems

Power BI

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

MBA

Tools

SAP

Oracle ERP

Power BI

Job description

Versique Executive, Professional & Interim Recruiting is seeking a seasoned finance leader for a high-visibility, multi-plant FP&A role. You will partner with the CFO, plant leadership, and business stakeholders to convert forecasts and profitability insights into actionable plans.

Ideal candidates have 8–12+ years in manufacturing finance, lead budgeting and forecasting, and excel at financial modeling, KPI development, and senior‑level communication.