Senior Finance Manager

Vaco; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Senior Finance Manager for a growing manufacturing company in the RTP area. You will partner across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations to own product cost visibility and gross margin analysis.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for product costs and inventory, driving cost transparency and strong financial controls across multi-site operations.

Qualifications

• Strong manufacturing cost accounting background with standard costing and variance analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline.
• Progressive finance leadership experience in manufacturing environments.
• Ability to partner with Supply Chain and Operations across multi-site or global orgs.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial oversight of product costs, inventory valuation, and gross margin performance globally.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations leadership to improve cost transparency.
• Analyze standard costs, manufacturing variances, inventory movements, and overhead allocations.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for product costs, inventory, and operations spending.
• Ensure consistency in costing methodologies, reporting, and financial controls across regions.
• Support new product introductions, sourcing initiatives, and cost analyses for projects.
• Oversee month-end close activities related to inventory, cost of sales, reserves, accruals.
• Enhance reporting, dashboards, and analytics to improve cost visibility and performance.

Skills

Cost accounting

Manufacturing

Variance analysis

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

We are recruiting a Senior Finance Manager for a growing Manufacturing company in the RTP area.In this role, you will partner across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations. This role will own product cost visibility, gross margin analysis, inventory performance, and operational financial planning. The ideal candidate brings a strong manufacturing cost accounting foundation

Responsibilities

• Lead financial oversight of product costs, inventory valuation, and gross margin performance across global operations.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations leadership to improve cost transparency and drive informed decision-making.
• Analyze standard costs, manufacturing variances, inventory movements, and overhead allocations to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for product costs, inventory, and operational spending.
• Partner with regional finance and operations teams to ensure consistency in costing methodologies, reporting, and financial controls.
• Support new product introductions, sourcing initiatives, and operational projects through cost analysis and financial modeling.
• Oversee month-end close activities related to inventory, cost of sales, reserves, accruals, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Enhance reporting, dashboards, and analytics to improve visibility into operational and financial performance.
• Support audit, compliance, and process improvement initiatives while maintaining strong governance around costing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• Strong manufacturing cost accounting background, including standard costing, inventory accounting, BOMs, transfer pricing concepts, and variance analysis.
• Progressive finance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally including experience as a Plant Controller, Manufacturing Controller, Cost Accounting Manager, or Operations Finance leader.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Supply Chain and Operations stakeholders across multi-site or global organizations.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail].

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.