Manager, Finance

Fortune Brands • Butler, IN

6d • $90,000 - $143,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Manager is the senior finance leader at the plant and the primary finance partner to the Plant Manager and operations leadership. Reporting to the Sr. Manager Finance, Operations, the role owns the plant’s financial performance, including the annual budget, monthly forecasts, explaining financial results and variances, and turning operational data into actions that reduce cost and improve productivity. The role leads daily, weekly, and monthly performance reporting on scrap, labor efficiency, spending, and continuous improvement savings, and partners with the accounting team to ensure strong controls. The position is located in Butler, Indiana.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressive finance experience within manufacturing, plant, or cost accounting.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Continuously seek opportunities to enhance knowledge and processes.
• Experience supporting and driving lean projects.
• Hands-on experience with standard costing, including building labor and overhead rates, running or supporting a cost roll, and analyzing manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, and PPV).
• Working knowledge of inventory accounting, including physical counts, cycle counts, and excess, obsolete, and slow-moving reserves.
• Strong business-partnering skills and credibility on the plant floor and with senior leadership.
• Ability to explain the reasons behind financial results clearly and simply.
• Curiosity and a hands-on approach, including walking the floor, asking questions, and following data.
• Ownership, a bias for action, and the ability to drive results.
• Ability to push back respectfully and maintain a firm position on numbers and controls.
• Strong organization and deadline-management skills, including the ability to work under month-end pressure.

Nice To Haves

• Team supervisory or management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead reporting and financial analysis of manufacturing expenses, providing actionable insights to support cost control, operational efficiency, and profitability objectives.
• Develop, monitor, and report key performance indicators to measure operational and financial performance, support data-driven decisions, and drive corrective actions with plant leadership.
• Create and develop annual plant budgets and monthly forecasts.
• Evaluate and communicate periodic actual plant results compared with budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, with a focus on variance reporting and productivity metrics.
• Lead standard plant cost and overhead development, including the plant cost structure.
• Manage the monthly and year-end financial closing process by reviewing and analyzing key plant activity, costs, and performance against forecasts and the operating plan.
• Partner with the Inventory team to assess financial impacts related to inventory management, including obsolete and excess inventory analysis, and drive mitigation efforts with Product Management, Manufacturing, and cross-functional Therma-Tru teams.
• Lead and develop Financial Analysts while partnering with plant leadership to reconcile and analyze daily production metrics, including scrap, labor efficiency, and operational performance drivers.
• Coordinate with the Outdoors team in Therma-Tru to ensure proper financial reporting, SOX controls, and audit support within the manufacturing site.
• Partner with Operations to identify, evaluate, and develop continuous improvement initiatives; conduct monthly cost walks to quantify operational impacts and communicate financial results through the P&L.
• Perform ad hoc tasks, special projects, analysis, and communication as needed to support operations.

Benefits

• Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.
• Comprehensive health plans.
• 401(k) program with a company contribution.
• Product discounts.
• Flexible time off benefits.
• Adoption benefits.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager