Plant Finance Lead: Cost, Forecasting & Productivity

Shearer; Massillon (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Shearer’s Foods in Massillon, OH is seeking a Plant Finance Manager to lead the financial operations at the Massillon plant. You will drive cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting in partnership with the Site Director and HQ Finance.

The role emphasizes collaboration with operations and continuous improvement teams to unlock productivity gains, ensure compliance, and deliver actionable insights on spend and capital projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in finance/accounting: analyzing cost reporting results and variances, identifying trends, recommending, and driving actions.
• 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of financial metrics in a manufacturing organization.
• Ability to work with teams and lead decision-making processes in a team environment.
• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to influence at various levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel capabilities and proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the plant financial reporting, spend management, annual budgeting, variance investigation, financial modeling, and productivity forecasting.
• Ensures that the plant team operates with a high level of fiscal integrity in accounting practices, financial reporting and decision making.
• Collaborates with plant leadership team to provide financial impact analysis and recommendations on cost savings, loss avoidance, and risk mitigation.
• Supports all plant initiatives for the capital and non-capital project by validating cost assumptions, productivity savings, and providing recommendations.
• Contributes ideas and solutions to Plant Leadership Team to improve long-term and short-term strategic initiatives and on day-to-day operational productivity.
• Teams up with Commercial Finance to develop new product costing models; monitor and assess productivity impact of new product startups at plant.
• Fosters collaboration amongst teams and influences up, down, and across organization levels to improve cross-functional financial acumen and financially informed decision making.
• Has a forward-thinking mindset and is resilient, adaptable, and curious.
• Identifies issues, diagnoses problems, research best practices, and generates alternatives to drive continuous improvement of financial processes and productivity outcomes with urgency.
• Is an active presence on the production floor, interacting with associates while emphasizing safety and proactively seeking out areas of opportunity to drive productivity improvement
• Shares information in a clear and engaging way that helps teams to understand and apply, across all levels of the organization.
• Able to synthesize large quantities of data into actionable insights.

Skills

Finance & accounting

Cost analysis

Leadership

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Shearer’s Foods in Massillon, OH is seeking a Plant Finance Manager to lead the financial operations at the Massillon plant. You will drive cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting in partnership with the Site Director and HQ Finance.

The role emphasizes collaboration with operations and continuous improvement teams to unlock productivity gains, ensure compliance, and deliver actionable insights on spend and capital projects.