Finance Manager (Operations)

IDEAL Industries, Inc.•Sterling, MA

20h•$95,845 - $129,155

About The Position

Anderson Power Products is hiring a Finance Manager to lead global product costing and transfer pricing processes while providing finance support to U.S. manufacturing operations. The role partners with regional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, business leaders, Accounting, Corporate Tax, and external advisors to improve cost visibility, support commercial and operational decisions, and maintain compliant financial processes. The position supports standard cost development and updates, cost and operational variance analysis, budgets and forecasts, plant KPIs, cost-reduction initiatives, inventory valuation, internal controls, and selected U.S. plant month-end close activities. It also coordinates global transfer pricing rates, supporting calculations and documentation, monitoring intercompany margins, and rate implementation across ERP systems and legal entities. The role contributes to quarterly and annual reporting, audits, ERP and reporting enhancements, and process improvement initiatives involving Dynamics 365, Power BI, and related financial tools. Overall ownership and leadership of the U.S. Plant and Global close remain outside this role.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
At least 7 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including at least 5 years in manufacturing finance, cost accounting, or operations finance.
Demonstrated experience with standard costing, transfer pricing, operational variance analysis, and inventory accounting.
ERP experience.
Strong knowledge of product costing, standard costing, inventory accounting, transfer pricing principles, manufacturing operations, and U.S. GAAP.
Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
Excellent communication and business partnering skills, including the ability to influence across functions and geographies.
Strong organization, ownership, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
A continuous improvement mindset focused on standardization, controls, and scalable processes.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, or MBA.
Experience supporting manufacturing operations and partnering with operational leadership.
Dynamics 365 experience.
Experience working across multiple sites, regions, or countries.
Experience developing, maintaining, or supporting intercompany transfer pricing calculations, rates, margin analysis, or related documentation.
Experience with Power BI or other business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

Own and improve global product costing processes, methodologies, governance, and reporting standards.
Lead global standard cost development, annual cost updates, periodic cost rolls, and validation activities.
Analyze product costs and cost drivers, including material, labor, overhead, freight, duties, and other manufacturing inputs.
Partner with regional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering teams to improve bill of material, routing, labor, and overhead assumptions.
Monitor and explain purchase price, material usage, labor, manufacturing, and overhead absorption variances across global operations.
Develop consistent global reporting and analytics to improve cost visibility, comparability, and decision support.
Support pricing, sourcing, footprint, make-versus-buy, and profitability decisions with cost analysis.
Serve as a primary finance business partner to U.S. manufacturing and operations leadership.
Analyze variable costs and period costs and explain performance against budgets, forecasts, prior year, and operational targets.
Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning for U.S. operations.
Develop and maintain plant KPIs and dashboards covering cost, productivity, labor efficiency, scrap, inventory, and operating spend.
Partner with Operations to identify, validate, track, and report cost-reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
Own and coordinate global transfer pricing for intercompany product transactions, including development, maintenance, and periodic review of rates.
Maintain transfer pricing calculations, assumptions, documentation, and approval records; monitor actual intercompany margins and recommend corrective actions when needed.
Coordinate transfer pricing rate implementation across ERP systems and legal entities and validate effective dates and system accuracy.
Partner with Corporate Tax, external advisors, and regional Finance teams on transfer pricing documentation, tax, audit, and compliance inquiries.
Assess the impact of costs, foreign exchange, duties, freight, sourcing, and operating-model changes on intercompany pricing.
Own assigned U.S. Plant month-end close activities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and variance analysis.
Ensure assigned manufacturing, inventory, and cost-related accounts are accurate, complete, and supported; provide analysis to the U.S. close team and coordinate issue resolution with Accounting and Operations.
Support quarterly and annual reporting requirements and audit requests, and contribute to close process improvements.
Support inventory valuation, cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory reserves, and excess and obsolete inventory analysis.
Maintain internal controls over product costing, inventory, manufacturing transactions, and assigned close activities, and support compliance with company policies, U.S. GAAP, and corporate financial requirements.
Support internal and external audits and identify opportunities to reduce financial and operational risk.
Support ERP and reporting system enhancements related to costing, inventory, manufacturing finance, and operational reporting.
Lead or participate in Finance and Operations process improvement and standardization initiatives.
Develop and automate reporting tools to improve efficiency, data quality, and decision making.
Support initiatives involving Dynamics 365, Power BI, and related financial reporting tools.