Strategic Finance Manager, Manufacturing

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own manufacturing finance reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis across cost, labor, inventory, cash, and operating expense.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting to understand performance drivers and turn them into clear business actions.
• Build financial models and decision support for product cost, production planning, capacity, cost-down initiatives, make-buy analysis, and manufacturing investments.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, and operating cadences that give leaders better visibility into manufacturing performance and unit economics.
• Analyze key operational drivers such as labor efficiency, material usage, rework, scrap, yield, throughput, WIP, E&O, and production volume.
• Improve the data, systems, and processes that support scalable manufacturing finance, including ERP, inventory, and operational reporting workflows.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline.
• Approximately 3+ years of experience in Manufacturing Finance, FP&A, Operations
• Finance, Cost Accounting, Supply Chain Finance, or another analytical finance role.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial statements, and operational performance drivers.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing, hardware, supply chain, inventory, or other operational cost drivers.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including financial modeling and scenario analysis.
• Experience working with ERP, MRP, MES, inventory, or operational data systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Zerp, or similar tools.
• Ability to work with large datasets, identify the business drivers behind the numbers, and communicate findings clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.