Manager, Finance

Fortunebrands; Butler (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

401(k) with company match

Product discounts

Flexible time off

Adoption benefits

Job summary

Fortune Brands is seeking a Finance Manager to lead the plant's financial performance in Butler, Indiana. You will partner with the Plant Manager and operations leadership to build annual budgets, monthly forecasts, and explain variances.

You will convert operating data into actions that reduce cost and improve productivity. You will oversee daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting on scrap, labor efficiency, spending, and continuous improvement savings, ensuring strong internal controls

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive finance experience within manufacturing.
• Team supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience supporting lean projects.
• Hands-on with standard costing and variances (material, labor, overhead, PPV).
• Working knowledge of inventory accounting.

Responsibilities

• Lead reporting and financial analysis of manufacturing expenses.
• Develop, monitor, and report KPIs to measure performance.
• Create annual plant budgets and monthly forecasts.
• Evaluate actual results vs budgets and forecasts with a focus on variance reporting and productivity metrics.
• Lead standard plant cost and overhead development.
• Manage monthly and year-end closing with cost analysis.
• Coordinate with inventory team on obsolescence and reserves.
• Develop Financial Analysts and partner with plant leadership.
• Coordinate with Outdoors team for SOX controls and audits at the site.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives and cost walks.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Variance analysis

Lean projects

Inventory accounting

SOX controls

Cost management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

Job description

The Finance Manager is the senior finance leader at the plant and the primary finance partner to the Plant Manager and operations leadership. Reporting to the Sr. Manager Finance, Operations, this role owns the financial performance of the plant. That includes building the annual budget and monthly forecasts, explaining results and variances, and turning operational data into actions that reduce cost and improve productivity. The role leads daily, weekly and monthly performance reporting on scrap, labor efficiency, spending and continuous improvement savings, and ensures the site has strong controls in partnership with accounting team.

Position location: Butler, Indiana

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

What you will be doing

• Lead reporting and financial analysis of manufacturing expenses, providing actionable insights to support cost control, operational efficiency, and profitability objectives.
• Develop, monitor, and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure operational and financial performance, enabling data-driven decision making, and drive corrective actions with plant leadership.
• Create and develop the annual plant budgets and monthly forecasts.
• Evaluate and communicate periodic actual plant results compared to budgets, forecasts and prior periods. With a focus primarily on variance reporting, and productivity metrics.
• Lead standard plant cost and overhead development, including plant cost structure.
• Manage the monthly and Y/E financial closing process by reviewing and analyzing key plant activity, costs, performance vs. forecast/operating plan.
• Partner with the Inventory team to assess financial impacts related to inventory management, including obsolete and excess inventory analysis, and drive mitigation efforts with Product Management, Manufacturing, and cross-functional Therma-Tru teams.
• Lead and develop Financial Analysts while partnering with plant leadership to reconcile and analyze daily production metrics, including scrap, labor efficiency, and operational performance drivers.
• Coordinate with the Outdoors team in Therma Tru to ensure proper financial reporting, SOX controls, and audit support within the manufacturing site.
• Partner with Operations to identify, evaluate, and develop continuous improvement initiatives, conducting monthly cost walks to quantify operational impacts and communicate financial results through the P&L.
• Perform ad hoc tasks, including special projects, analysis, and communication as needed to support operations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field required
• 5+ years of progressive finance experience within manufacturing, plant, or cost accounting.
• Team supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to enhance knowledge and processes
• Experience supporting and driving lean projects.
• Hands-on experience with standard costing, including building labor and overhead rates, running or supporting a cost roll, and analyzing manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, PPV)
• Working knowledge of inventory accounting, including physical counts, cycle counts, and excess, obsolete and slow-moving reserves

Key Skills and Attributes

• Strong business partner who is credible on the plant floor and with senior leadership
• Explains the "why" behind the numbers clearly and simply
• Curious and hands-on: walks the floor, asks questions, follows the data
• Takes ownership and drives results, with a bias for action
• Can push back respectfully and hold a firm position on numbers and controls
• Organized, manages deadlines and works well under month-end pressure

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $90,000 USD - $143,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates' unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits, adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water, outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments, with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add lux