Operations Finance Lead

Department: Finance

Date: Oct 4, 2024

Job Title: Operations Finance Lead

Location: Panoli Manufacturing Site

Overview:

The primary purpose of this position is to provide Operations Finance support to our Panoli manufacturing plant. The support will include reviewing operating budgets, monthly forecasts, preparation of standard costs, financial modeling, capital expenditure analysis, and routine variance analysis.

As the Finance Lead, this role will be the primary finance contact for the site and will partner with the Plant Manager to oversee the plant operations. This position will report directly to the Global AI Manager and will collaborate with key stakeholders in the Operations, Supply Chain organization, as well as corporate functions like Controllership, Internal Controls, Tax and Treasury.

Responsibilities:

Act as key Operations Finance point of contact
Foster a strong business partner relationship and good communication with Operations Management at the site
Develop operating budget and lead the standard cost setting process at site level
Monitor and report financial performance, understand and explain root causes cause of variances -vs- budget and forecast, work proactively to institutionalize improvements and remedy unfavorable performance
Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages as well as prepare presentations for budgets and forecasts
Provide insight into strategic decisions to drive cost efficiencies and optimize resource allocation
Seek opportunities to improve the analysis of monthly financial and operational results
Provide business data and analysis to Global Operations Management Team
Collaborate with Procurement team to review and validate raw material purchase prices
Monitor performance against SLAs and escalate identified issues (as needed)
Support new project cost and economics analysis = NPV, IRR and Payback
Support SOX and internal audit as needed
Support Operations Finance close activities (e.g., reserve/obsolete inventory capital projects, physical inventory counts)
Identify and drive reporting and process improvements/automation

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/business
MBA or Chartered Accountant preferred

Qualifications:

10 to 15 years of diversified experience in financial planning and analysis, product costing, and/or operations finance, within manufacturing (preferably the chemicals industry)
Strong financial acumen and analytics skills. Being able provide in-depth explanation of results, synthesize data to identify key business drivers and assess the quality of inputs, generate insightful outputs
Experience with all aspects of financial reporting cycle including development of annual business plan / budget, financial projections / recurring forecasts and operations cost management required
Standard costing experience (preferred)
Above average ERP (SAP preferred), Excel and BI and analytics tools experience required
Experience working in a multi-national corporation with accompanying understanding of foreign currency impact and modeling
Demonstrated ability or aptitude for computer systems, database management and data assimilation
Proficient in English language

Competencies:

Ability to build effective business relationships, and interact and communicate effectively with executives and management
Strong analytical skills; with aptitude to ask challenging questions and get to the underlying issues
Ability to influence outcomes and set overall performance expectations
Strong written and oral presentations skills
Ability to take ownership to act and to drive progress and deliver on commitments in an ethical way
Demonstrated leadership ability, strategic mindset and organizational savvy
Ability to work in a matrix organization and adapt to change as needed
Proficient in the Microsoft office suite to include Excel and Power Point

Operations Finance Lead

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