Director, Manufacturing Finance

Atlantic Group; Massachusetts; Presencial; USD 150.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Atlantic Group seeks a senior finance leader to partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations, delivering financial leadership and actionable insights to boost performance.

The role leads AOP, forecasts, and long-range planning for manufacturing, overseeing costing, variance analysis, and capital evaluation across multi-site operations.

Formación

• 10-15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience supporting manufacturing operations.
• Deep expertise in manufacturing finance, including cost accounting, standard costing, absorption costing, manufacturing variances, inventory management, and operational KPIs.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-site and/or global manufacturing organizations.
• Experience with ERP systems; strong preference for SAP S/4HANA experience, particularly within manufacturing and cost accounting modules.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities, including experience leveraging artificial intelligence-enabled tools to enhance analysis, forecasting, and decision-making.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations leadership, providing financial leadership and insights to support business performance and strategic decision-making.
• Provide actionable financial and operational insights to improve production efficiency, capacity utilization, cost structure, and overall manufacturing performance.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership on product mix, sourcing strategies, make-versus-buy decisions, and other key operational and strategic initiatives.
• Establish financial accountability with site and operations leaders by driving performance against financial results, operating KPIs, and key business objectives.
• Provide forward-looking analysis and insights into cost trends, throughput constraints, margin performance, and other factors impacting manufacturing profitability.
• Translate complex operational metrics and manufacturing drivers into clear financial implications and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), quarterly forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes for manufacturing operations.
• Develop and communicate variance analysis across key manufacturing drivers, including volume, yield, labor, material, overhead, absorption, and scrap.
• Oversee standard costing activities across manufacturing sites, including cost roll-ups, updates, and ongoing evaluation of costing assumptions.
• Ensure accurate product costing and maintain the integrity of bills of material (BOMs), routings, labor standards, and other cost assumptions.
• Monitor and analyze manufacturing variances, identify root causes, and partner with operations to develop and execute corrective actions.
• Drive inventory optimization initiatives focused on inventory turns, working capital, obsolescence, and excess and slow-moving inventory.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP requirements related to inventory valuation, cost accounting, and capitalization.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to evaluate capital expenditures, including new equipment, automation, technology investments, and facility expansions.
• Develop business cases, ROI analyses, financial models, and post-investment reviews to assess capital effectiveness and returns.
• Ensure capital allocation decisions align with strategic growth priorities and long-term business objectives.
• Support ERP implementation and optimization initiatives, including SAP S/4HANA, with particular focus on manufacturing, inventory, and cost accounting processes.
• Strengthen financial processes, systems, and internal controls supporting inventory, costing, manufacturing operations, and financial reporting.
• Maintain audit readiness and ensure compliance with SOX, US GAAP, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead sustainability-related financial reporting, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions reporting, and partner with the Sustainability team on transition planning and initiatives to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

Conocimientos

Manufacturing finance

Cost accounting

Standard costing

Absorption costing

Inventory management

Operational KPIs

Financial modeling

ERP systems

SAP S/4HANA

AI in finance/forecasting

Herramientas

SAP S/4HANA

Descripción del empleo

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations leadership, providing financial leadership and insights to support business performance and strategic decision-making.
• Provide actionable financial and operational insights to improve production efficiency, capacity utilization, cost structure, and overall manufacturing performance.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership on product mix, sourcing strategies, make-versus-buy decisions, and other key operational and strategic initiatives.
• Establish financial accountability with site and operations leaders by driving performance against financial results, operating KPIs, and key business objectives.
• Provide forward-looking analysis and insights into cost trends, throughput constraints, margin performance, and other factors impacting manufacturing profitability.
• Translate complex operational metrics and manufacturing drivers into clear financial implications and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), quarterly forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes for manufacturing operations.
• Develop and communicate variance analysis across key manufacturing drivers, including volume, yield, labor, material, overhead, absorption, and scrap.
• Oversee standard costing activities across manufacturing sites, including cost roll-ups, updates, and ongoing evaluation of costing assumptions.
• Ensure accurate product costing and maintain the integrity of bills of material (BOMs), routings, labor standards, and other cost assumptions.
• Monitor and analyze manufacturing variances, identify root causes, and partner with operations to develop and execute corrective actions.
• Drive inventory optimization initiatives focused on inventory turns, working capital, obsolescence, and excess and slow-moving inventory.
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP requirements related to inventory valuation, cost accounting, and capitalization.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to evaluate capital expenditures, including new equipment, automation, technology investments, and facility expansions.
• Develop business cases, ROI analyses, financial models, and post-investment reviews to assess capital effectiveness and returns.
• Ensure capital allocation decisions align with strategic growth priorities and long-term business objectives.
• Support ERP implementation and optimization initiatives, including SAP S/4HANA, with particular focus on manufacturing, inventory, and cost accounting processes.
• Strengthen financial processes, systems, and internal controls supporting inventory, costing, manufacturing operations, and financial reporting.
• Maintain audit readiness and ensure compliance with SOX, US GAAP, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead sustainability-related financial reporting, including Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions reporting, and partner with the Sustainability team on transition planning and initiatives to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

Experience & Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience supporting manufacturing operations.
• Deep expertise in manufacturing finance, including cost accounting, standard costing, absorption costing, manufacturing variances, inventory management, and operational KPIs.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-site and/or global manufacturing organizations.
• Experience with ERP systems; strong preference for SAP S/4HANA experience, particularly within manufacturing and cost accounting modules.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities, including experience leveraging artificial intelligence-enabled tools to enhance analysis, forecasting, and decision-making.