Finance Manager, Operations

TTM Technologies•Farmingdale, NY

9d•$115,841 - $203,720

About The Position

The Finance Manager, Operations establishes, analyzes, and manages policies and procedures that ensure inventory integrity, accurate inventory costing, timely transactions, physical and system reconciliations, ownership determinations, and compliant reporting. The role conducts and participates in audits, addresses adverse findings with corrective action plans, generates and reconciles financial reports for Operations and Financial Management, and supervises personnel responsible for reconciliations and reporting. It also represents Materials in Kaizen events and root-cause corrective action implementations, and has inventory adjustment authority and input into standard operating procedures. The position leads operational basis-of-estimate (BOE) processes for production, non-recurring engineering, aftermarket, and sustainment/repair proposals. It maintains estimating procedures and tools, coordinates proposal estimates across operational departments, ensures documentation and approvals, and supports requests for quotation and government compliance audits. Additional responsibilities include managing indirect budgets, savings programs, performance reporting, physical work-in-process inventory audits, project estimates to complete, capital equipment requests, and continuous-improvement initiatives. The Finance Manager serves as a strategic financial resource to Operations and supervises staff, including work assignment, training, performance reviews, discipline, and hiring. The role requires compliance with TTM export-control policies and applicable laws, including ITAR, EAR, and OFAC requirements. The estimated compensation range is $115,841–$203,720. An annual or quarterly company bonus may apply depending on position assignment; alternative shifts may qualify for a shift premium.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.
At least 10 years of related experience and/or training, with at least 5 years of management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge of PCs and software.
Ability to interact with varying levels of management, subordinates, co-workers, and customers.
Must comply with TTM Export Control Policies and Procedures and applicable laws, including ITAR, EAR, and OFAC; responsibilities include recognizing restricted products and access, foreign-person visitors, visitor authorization procedures, export requirements for US shipments, and vendor approvals for ITAR manufacturing and services.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, update, and maintain standard operating procedures and estimating tools for operational basis-of-estimate processes and proposals.
Coordinate cross-functional updates to estimating tools and labor categories to improve proposal quality, efficiency, and pricing accuracy.
Collaborate with compliance officers and departmental managers to ensure BOE data integrity, procedural compliance, documentation, and approvals.
Lead operations finance coordination of BOEs for requests for quotation, including labor and material estimates developed with manufacturing engineering and production test groups.
Collaborate with quality, product support, production control, support engineering, and test engineering on cost estimates for proposals.
Manage BOE data sets, responsibility assignment matrices, and task cost summaries in a centralized depository.
Participate in proposal clearance meetings and occasionally act as the General Manager’s designee for formal bid approvals.
Develop and track monthly indirect budgets for Operations and coordinate approvals and follow-up actions with the General Manager.
Lead operations profit-savings programs and provide monthly reporting to local and corporate leadership.
Support written and oral audits by DCAA and DCMA, including information requests, data mining, and documented justifications for certified government proposal inquiries.
Maintain operations proposal-estimating procedures and make process improvements to comply with FAR and DFARS requirements.
Prepare bi-monthly comparison reports for the General Manager covering backlog, revenue, past-due items, headcount, and key business issues.
Chair weekly Operations management meetings to review site performance reporting.
Partner with Operations departments to prepare capital equipment requirements and ensure alignment with fiscal-year budgets and priorities.
Lead monthly and annual independent physical WIP inventory audits, including factory-floor counts and reconciliation of findings.
Manage quarterly estimated-time-to-complete analysis for active production, NRE, aftermarket, and sustainment projects, including labor and material estimates and approvals.
Train Operations personnel on KPIs, BOEs, and proposal estimating.
Compile site-level backlog, revenue, and KPI reporting, including yield, RMAs, turnaround times, past dues, and on-time delivery.
Sponsor and track continuous-improvement projects supporting Lean and cost-saving initiatives, including 9CI and Six Sigma.
Oversee supporting personnel to ensure accurate reconciliations and timely financial reporting.
Serve as a strategic financial resource to Operations management and reporting staff.
Reconcile monthly forecast-to-actual revenue and profit-margin variances.
Control, monitor, and support reconciliation of borrow-payback activities, material movements, and residual materials.
Prepare standardized and ad-hoc reports for the General Manager, including financial Pareto analyses.
Help manage material inventory, including authorized offsite storage areas.
Plan and assign subordinate work, review its quality and timeliness, and ensure staff are trained.
Plan staff training and development, conduct formal performance reviews, manage disciplinary issues, and hire staff.
Perform other duties as directed.
Comply with export-control policies and applicable laws, including ITAR, EAR, and OFAC requirements.