Finance Manager- Temp

Smiths Group • Morton Grove, IL

2h

About The Position

This position serves as the finance business partner for the Site Leaders and their leadership teams. The role is responsible for increasing analytics, accuracy, standardization, and ensuring financial statements are in accordance with regulatory compliance and internal controls. It provides a critical linkage between sales, operations, and shared services teams, ensuring all perspectives are comprehended and acted upon in the reporting, planning, and execution cycle. The Finance Manager will collaborate with Shared Services for proper control and oversight of balance sheet review and key accounts, and ensure proper review of AP, AR, and Purchasing Aging reports. Responsibilities also include approving Supplier Payments and Customer Credits and Refunds in line with Smith Policies, preparing reconciliations for tax return preparation and other compliance reports, and leading the forecasting process for USA with responsibility for timely and accurate annual budgeting and forecasting. The role involves developing and leading financial analyses related to growth initiatives, cost savings, pricing, profitability, investments, product development, and supply chain/operations initiatives. The manager will work collaboratively to establish a regular, standardized set of insightful reporting and analytics that drive fact-based performance metrics and implement key performance indicators. They will also work with Site Leaders and the central engineering team to develop annual Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) plans, create business and financial business cases for initiatives, and ensure projects stay within budget. Further duties include working with Cost Accounting for inventory management (cycle counts and physical inventories), ensuring process compliance and approvals, and leveraging financial and consolidation systems, including assisting with system upgrades and new functionality roll-outs. The position also involves leading and participating in cross-functional teams for sustainable process improvements and the ability to build rapport, glean insights from, and influence project/product management and directors to deliver results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility within a manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change across multiple functions.
• Value streams, operations, & cost accounting knowledge/experience required.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-motivated.
• Capable of monitoring and prioritizing competing tasks and projects.
• Team player attitude and adept at multi-level cross-cultural communication.
• Overall proficiency with software systems.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or other applicable Masters-level degree
• Experience with Oracle, QAD MFG Pro and consolidated reporting systems

Responsibilities

• Serve as the finance business partner for the Site Leaders and their leadership teams.
• Increase analytics, accuracy, standardization and ensure financial statements are in accordance with regulatory compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with the system of financial and internal controls.
• Provide critical linkage between sales, operations, and shared services teams ensuring that all perspectives are comprehended and acted upon in the reporting, planning and execution cycle.
• Collaborate with Shared Service to ensure proper control and oversite of the balance sheet review and key accounts, and ensure proper review of AP, AR and Purchasing Aging reports.
• Approve Supplier Payments and Customer Credits and Refunds in line with Smith Policies.
• Prepare reconciliations and support schedules to assist with tax return preparation and other compliance reports.
• Lead the forecasting process for USA with responsibility for timely and accurate annual budgeting and forecasting.
• Develop and lead financial analyses relating to growth initiatives, cost savings, pricing, profitability, investments, product development, and supply chain/operations initiatives.
• Work collaboratively to establish a regular, standardized set of insightful reporting and analytics that drive fact-based performance metrics.
• Implement key performance indicators with granular analysis of internal performance drivers and levers to employ.
• Work with Site Leaders and the central engineering team to develop annual Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) plans, develop compelling business and financial business cases for each initiative, ensuring projects stay within budget, and that all associated costs are accounted for properly.
• Work with Cost Accounting to ensure regular inventory (cycle counts and annual / semi-annual full physical inventories) for raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods ensuring process compliance and appropriate approvals are completed.
• Ensure the full leverage of all financial and consolidation systems, including assisting with system upgrades and roll-out of new system functionality with the Sites. This includes support for transactional and master data governance.
• Lead and participate in cross functional teams implementing strategies for sustainable process improvements.
• Ability to build rapport, glean insights from, and influence project/product management and directors to deliver results.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other (Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity)
• Smiths Excellence Awards (annual celebration of extraordinary activities, people, and projects)
• Inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where diversity is celebrated, supported, and embraced

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees