Senior Manager, Operations Finance

Novelis Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Fertility support

Employee assistance program

Wellness program

Tuition assistance

Job summary

The Senior Manager, Operations Finance at Novelis in Atlanta, GA leads financial partnership across Operations, Metal Procurement and procurement functions for North America. You provide strategic analysis, capex evaluation, and cost optimization to influence P&L and cash flow while driving robust planning processes.

You will coach a team, develop scalable tools, and align regional capital allocation with the plan and strategic priorities, delivering clear financial insights to executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 7-10 years of progressive experience in Finance, including FP&A
• Experience in financial analysis for business partnering, forecasting, planning, and capital/procurement evaluation (P&L and Cash Flow impact analysis, NPV, payback)
• Minimum 3 years of people management experience
• Work experience in manufacturing organizations, preferably in a multi-national environment
• Highly analytical mind and strategic thinking, with a bias for action and the ability to evaluate outcomes from multiple angles
• System fluency – MS Office, PowerBI, OneStream (Hyperion), and SAP

Responsibilities

• Support functional heads to meet annual and strategic targets by providing quality and timely analysis of metal cost, operating cost, and Capex on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Support functional heads to make effective decisions to positively impact P&L and Cash Flow
• Coordinate across plants, procurement, supply chain, and finance to ensure consistent assumptions and clear communication of financial implications.
• Review and challenge non-commercial RFAs, including operational, procurement, opex, and capex-related requests, to ensure sound business rationale and financial rigor.
• Ensure RFA submissions include clear assumptions, sensitivity analysis, financial returns, risks, and alignment with Plan, Forecast, and Strategic Plan priorities.
• Provide recommendations to support leadership decision making and improve consistency of financial evaluation across the region.
• Lead the regional finance view of capex planning, tracking, and analysis, ensuring projects are financially evaluated and prioritized against business needs.
• Partner with Operations and engineering stakeholders to assess project economics, timing, cash flow, operational benefits, and execution risks.
• Support forecast, plan, and strategic planning processes by maintaining transparency of capex assumptions, approvals, and expected financial impacts.
• Build capability within the Business Finance team by coaching managers, strengthening business acumen, and creating clear ownership across metal, non-metal, opex, and capex finance topics.
• Establish scalable tools, standard processes, and consistent analytical frameworks to improve quality, speed, and transparency of decision support.
• Foster a high-performing culture focused on partnership, ownership, continuous improvement, and proactive identification of business opportunities and risks.

Skills

Financial analysis

FP&A

People management

Cross-functional partnering

PowerBI

OneStream (Hyperion)

SAP

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Accounting/Finance

Tools

PowerBI

OneStream (Hyperion)

SAP

Job description

Position Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Finance team,locatedin Atlanta, GA, is seeking a Senior Manager, Operations Finance. The Sr. Manager, Operations Finance serves as the finance business partner to Operations, Metal Procurement, and non-Metal Procurement for Novelis North America. The role provides financial leadership, analysis, and challenge to support operational performance, cost optimization, procurement strategy, capital allocation, and enterprise-wide decision making.

Through deep business acumen, strong cross-functional partnership, and disciplined financial analysis, this role translates operational and procurement priorities into clear financial insights and actionable recommendations. The position leads the regional finance interface for metal, non-metal, operations, opex, and capex topics, ensuring clear and consistent communications and reporting, and driving robust but efficient processes around RFAs, planning and reporting. The position is the main finance point of contact for several key members of the Novelis North America management team.

Responsibilities

• Support functional heads to meet annual and strategic targets by providing quality and timely analysis of metal cost, operating cost, and Capex on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Support functional heads to make effective decisions to positively impact P&L and Cash Flow
• Coordinate across plants, procurement, supply chain, and finance to ensure consistent assumptions and clear communication of financial implications.
• Review and challenge non-commercial RFAs, including operational, procurement, opex, and capex-related requests, to ensure sound business rationale and financial rigor.
• Ensure RFA submissions include clear assumptions, sensitivity analysis, financial returns, risks, and alignment with Plan, Forecast, and Strategic Plan priorities.
• Provide recommendations to support leadership decision making and improve consistency of financial evaluation across the region.
• Lead the regional finance view of capex planning, tracking, and analysis, ensuring projects are financially evaluated and prioritized against business needs.
• Partner with Operations and engineering stakeholders to assess project economics, timing, cash flow, operational benefits, and execution risks.
• Support forecast, plan, and strategic planning processes by maintaining transparency of capex assumptions, approvals, and expected financial impacts.
• Build capability within the Business Finance team by coaching managers, strengthening business acumen, and creating clear ownership across metal, non-metal, opex, and capex finance topics.
• Establish scalable tools, standard processes, and consistent analytical frameworks to improve quality, speed, and transparency of decision support.
• Foster a high-performing culture focused on partnership, ownership, continuous improvement, and proactive identification of business opportunities and risks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 7-10 years of progressive experience in Finance, including substantial period within FP&A
• Demonstrated experience in financial analysis for business partnering, decision support, forecasting, planning, and capital/procurement evaluation (P&L and Cash Flow impact analysis, NPV, payback, buy vs lease, procurement saving)
• Minimum 3 years of people management experience
• Work experience in manufacturing organizations, preferably in a multi-national environment
• Highly analytical mind and strategic thinking, with a bias for action and the ability to evaluate outcomes from multiple angles, while driving simplification and transparency
• Ability to influence and constructively challenge stakeholders without authority to ensure alignment and execution
• Ability to prioritize effectively under time pressure and manage complex topics simultaneously
• Ability to coach and develop managers / team members
• System fluency – either advanced experience or high adaptability across tools including MS Office, PowerBI, OneStream (Hyperion), and SAP

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in applying strategic frameworks and tools to business and financial decision making
• Experience with capital approval & allocation process / contract & RFA governance
• Exposure to procurement, metal, as well as operations
• Experience of developing dashboards, reporting tools, or analysis models using PowerBI or similar platforms

*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship

What We Offer:

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have manydifferent needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spendingaccount, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpotDiscount Program
• Tuitionassistanceand career development programs!

Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis’ North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.