Director, Finance_526

Marmon Holdings, Inc.•Alexandria, LA

20d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Finance – UTLX Manufacturing manages accounting and other business-related functions for the manufacturing operation in Alexandria, Louisiana. The role reports to the Platform Controller and has a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Alexandria General Manager. It leads local accounting personnel and is accountable for the integrity and quality of financial reporting, financial planning and forecasting, internal controls, and compliance with Marmon policies. This is a full-time, office-based position with five onsite days per week and travel of up to 10%.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive responsibility in manufacturing accounting and finance, including general accounting, financial reporting, financial analysis, and internal controls.
Four-year undergraduate degree in accounting.
Skilled use of Excel.
Hands-on experience with general accounting software and corporate financial reporting systems.
Moderate proficiency in PowerPoint.
Ability to work independently, proactively manage workload and time, and handle multiple tasks during stringent month-end deadlines.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, attention to detail, quiet self-confidence, and ability to work effectively with people at all organizational levels.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a large-company environment with relatively advanced accounting and reporting systems.
Experience at different organizational levels, including corporate, division, and business unit.
Public accounting background.
MBA degree.
CPA designation.
Experience with OneStream.

Responsibilities

Prepare month-end close procedures in compliance with U.S. GAAP.
Review and prepare the monthly financial package for the Platform Vice President, investigate issues, and coordinate their resolution.
Review and approve journal entries and reconciliations; review revenue and profit elimination entries.
Investigate and report on working-capital trends.
Support the local team with OneStream uploads and data forms.
Review monthly budgets with local departments and compile monthly and quarterly forecasts, including explanations of differences from Board book forecasts, budgets, and prior-year results.
Establish and maintain systems to track business trends, including labor utilization and costs, materials and supplies, scrap and salvage, overhead, and administrative expenses.
Understand and supervise daily accounting functions, including accounts payable, inventory, accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, and payroll.
Prepare quarterly analytics responses and other Marmon deliverables; monitor inventory control and reporting, including quarterly and annual physical inventories.
Prepare quarterly bridge analyses of key accounts for Platform CFO review and consolidate and report quarterly productivity metrics and improvements.
Lead the annual budget process, including schedules, calendars, instructions, financials, and strategic plans as needed.
Work with the business to improve GAAP and Marmon policy compliance and internal and external audit results; coordinate and review year-end data and reports for Corporate.
Perform annual impairment analyses as needed and update the OneStream hierarchy for beginning-of-year reporting changes.
Partner proactively with the General Manager and manufacturing leadership, translating commercial, operational, and strategic concepts into financially sound plans and recommendations.
Review and model sales quotations, ensuring costs are complete and accurate; evaluate pricing and profit-margin scenarios and their effects on revenue, margins, operating profit, cash flow, and P&L performance.
Assess how proposed orders may affect manufacturing processes, production sequencing, changeovers, labor utilization, bottlenecks, capacity, costs, schedules, and other production-plan profitability.
Identify and model capital expenditures, tooling, equipment, facility modifications, cash needs, financial treatment, returns, timing, and risks required to execute quoted work.
Work with Commercial, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Operations to resolve quotation assumptions and issues; provide final Manufacturing Finance approval of quotations and supporting business cases before higher-level authorization.
Validate and approve cost-savings initiatives, translate savings into per-car impacts and applicable configurations and volumes, distinguish recurring, one-time, projected, and realized savings, and reconcile approved benefits to actual results.
Review and approve AFEs and business cases for larger capital improvement initiatives, validating costs, volumes, benefits, cash flow, payback, returns, and post-completion results.
Partner with leadership to model marketing and business strategies, including volume, pricing, cost, margin, capital, capacity, working capital, cash flow, risks, timing, and expected P&L results.
Model strategic alternatives involving consolidation, relocation, expansion, or reallocation of operations, capacity, equipment, and production.
Evaluate tariffs, duties, and other trade-related costs and incorporate exposures into quotations, sourcing decisions, capital plans, and strategies.
Set measurable financial assumptions and performance targets for approved strategies and recommend adjustments when modeled or actual results diverge from objectives.
Manage accounting-team performance and conduct reviews in accordance with Marmon policies.
Review capital expenditures, verify payback calculations, ensure compliance with Marmon policy, and conduct post-audits as appropriate.
Facilitate development of capital and expense plans and manage relationships and communications with internal and external auditors.
Maintain OneStream access controls and coordinate new-user access and training.
Support Corporate requests and analyses, including information requests from Berkshire Hathaway.
Simplify and automate manufacturing reports and dashboards for management decision-making, including pricing, savings, tariffs, lean initiatives, and tax incentives.
Analyze profitability of third-party car sales.