Finance Manager

Dandy; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dandy is seeking an Operations Finance Manager to own the financial picture for its manufacturing sites and third‑party lab network. You will partner with site leads to understand cost structure, drive variance insights, and act on financial recommendations.

You’ll lead the monthly close, ensure accurate COGS, and perform analyses for equipment purchases and site footprint decisions. This is a high‑ownership role in Operations and Finance leadership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of finance experience, including time in a physical-product business in a high growth environment.
• Strong ownership partnering with operators and translating operational reality into financial impact.
• Strong ownership of recurring processes: close, forecast, reporting cadence.
• Excellent modeling skills in Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable automating with AI tools and handling large datasets.
• Exceptional communication skills for clear executive-level recommendations.
• Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Manufacturing Site Leads. Own the finance relationship with each site and ensure budgets and variances are understood.
• Partner with the 3P Labs team. Provide financial clarity to routing decisions and real-time trade-off analyses.
• Run the operations monthly close. Lead pre-close and prelim close with site leads; align with Cost Accounting; drive follow-ups to closure.
• Own the accuracy of manufacturing COGS. Review fixed overhead COGS; validate third-party lab costs and margins.
• Make the process better every month by removing manual work, tightening timelines, and improving outputs.
• Support strategic decisions by building analyses for equipment purchases, footprint decisions, and insource vs. outsource evaluations.

Skills

Financial modeling

Operations partnership

Close & forecast processes

Executive communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Data analysis

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Claude Co-Work

Job description

Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $400B. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we’re on an ambitious mission to simplify and modernize every function of the dental practice through technology. As we expand our reach globally, Dandy is building the operating system for dental offices around the world—empowering clinicians and their teams with technology, innovation, and world‑class support to achieve more for their practices, their people, and their patients.

About the Role

We’re looking for an Operations Finance Manager to be the finance partner to the people who run our manufacturing network. You’ll own the financial picture for our manufacturing sites and our third‑party lab network, and help operators fully understand their cost structure and identify opportunities.

This is a role for someone who wants to be close to the physical business. You’ll spend real time in the details of overhead absorption, cost per unit, and vendor economics, and you’ll also be in the room when we decide whether to buy a piece of equipment, open or consolidate a site, or bring work in‑house. It’s a high‑ownership seat with visibility across Operations and Finance leadership.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Manufacturing Site Leads. Own the finance relationship with each site. Make sure every site lead knows their budget cold, understands what’s driving their variances, and has what they need to act on it. Be the person they call before they make a decision, not after.

• Partner with the 3P Labs team. Bring financial clarity to the routing decisions this team owns. Build the analysis that shows what each routing choice costs us, and make sure the trade‑offs are understood in real time — not discovered at close.

• Run the operations monthly close. Lead pre‑close and prelim close meetings with site leads: align with Cost Accounting in advance, set clear expectations with attendees, drive follow‑ups to completion, and ensure every variance explanation is properly quantified and owned.

• Own the accuracy of manufacturing COGS. Perform expense detail review on fixed overhead COGS to confirm costs are booked correctly. Analyze third‑party lab costs to validate routing. Run gold and precious metals margin analyses to confirm we’re pricing to our markup targets.

• Make the process better every month. This close is not in its final form. We want someone who treats each cycle as an opportunity to remove manual work, tighten timelines, and raise the quality of what comes out the other side.

• Support strategic decisions. Build the analysis behind manufacturing equipment purchases, manufacturing footprint decisions, and insource vs. outsource evaluations — and have a point of view on the answer, not just the model.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of finance experience, including meaningful time in a physical-product business in a high growth environment

• Demonstrated success partnering with operators. You’ve built strong working relationships with operators and can translate between operational reality and financial impact in both directions.

• Strong ownership of recurring processes. You’ve run a close, a forecast cycle, or a reporting cadence and left it better than you found it.

• Excellent modeling skills - proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and also comfort w/ automating spreadsheet work with Claude Co-Work or other AI tools. Comfortable getting into large, messy datasets.

• Exceptional communication skills — able to distill complex analysis into a clear recommendation for an executive audience.

• Bias for action and comfort with ambiguity. You’re willing to have backbone with senior stakeholders and push for the right answer.

Req ID: J-1224

For full‑time positions, Dandy offers a wide range of best‑in‑class, comprehensive, and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate. Our local benefits packages typically include healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off—ensuring our team members are supported no matter where they live and work.

Dandy is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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