Manager of Operational Finance, Costing & Analysis

Gates Corporation • Denver, CO

1d • $120,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The North America Manager of Costing & Operational Analytics is responsible for maintaining and improving upon the existing cost accounting functions in support of manufacturing operations and supply chain management for the North America manufacturing plants. S/he will also be responsible for procurement finance analytics, driving for purchasing productivity and general operations FP&A. This is an opportunity for a motivated manufacturing financial professional seeking longer term growth within manufacturing operations finance.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, with a depth of skills in accounting (both financial and managerial), reporting, analysis, financial supply chain processes and procedures is necessary.
• Knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), especially as it relates to standard product costing is key to success in this role.
• Robust internal controls understanding and experience documenting processes and transactions.
• 5 plus years’ cost accounting experience in a process manufacturing environment and a general understanding of industrial and/or automotive manufacturing.
• Oracle or a comparable ERP technology tool experience is necessary.
• Understanding ERP capabilities throughout the business operation is critical to success in the role.
• Expert knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, Excel and other data analytical tools is a must.

Nice To Haves

• Strong communication skills, ability to present financial information in a meaningful understandable way and a capability to understand the big picture in terms of the Company’s business process is important.
• Self-motivated with an ability to work independently and collaboratively and strong organizational skills are all essential.
• Good team building skills including trust, professionalism, the ability to garner consensus across diverse groups; ability to think strategically; yet have the desire to be hands-on when needed are all attractive qualities.
• Ability to drive results in a rapidly changing business environment is the key to future advancement.
• The successful candidate will join a team committed to manufacturing excellence, continuous improvement, and member development.
• This person will enjoy developing solid business relationships with their counterparts in the materials, operations, and quality roles to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Through those roles, this position will play a key role in providing impartial financial analysis and guidance, decision support, and development of financial acumen across the operations team and quality teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish policies and processes for standard cost activity in partnership with global corporate accounting.
• Educate business partners, including manufacturing and product line management leaders, on concepts of standard costing
• Maintain accurate costing methodology in the ERP system, partnering with operations and engineering experts to ensure proper BOM, Routings, etc. are maintained.
• Maintain standard cost system to ensure accuracy of inventory valuation and lead annual manufacturing cost standard roll and analyze variances to standards.
• Monitor inventory transactions and processes including scrap, inventory, and COGS to ensure accuracy and compliance with corporate policies.
• Support monthly manufacturing and overhead variance research, analysis, and reporting, including labor/overhead absorption by site and product line
• Develop and roll out standard reporting to easily report and improve site productivity, while informing and educating business leaders
• Partner with global procurement to ensure adherence to policies, improving purchasing productivity, and generate informative PPV analysis for direct and indirect spend
• Support weekly manufacturing performance review reporting and meetings.
• Assists senior management teams in understanding costs, variances, and other operating measures, including product/SKU level margins through key strategic reports.
• Responsible for providing and verifying product costs in support of all cost-based pricing contracts, intercompany transfer pricing.
• Identify potential issues and coordinate issue resolution/problem solving with other functional teams.
• Act as costing SME to find resolution to costing issues, accounting transactions, and inventory movement transactions as required
• Provide support to global pricing, FP&A, and commercial teams to analyze product level costing to ensure continued margin expansion.
• Participates in the annual budgeting process, including preparation of standard costs.
• Drive the development of procedures and controls that ensure meaningful and reliable product costs and accurate inventories.
• Prepare for and participate in internal and external reviews and audits as required.
• Support manufacturing footprint optimization projects as required.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance and other voluntary benefit options: benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following your date of hire
• Eligible for 3 weeks of paid vacation + 11 holidays (9 scheduled & 2 floating) + 8 sick days. All vacation days are accrued
• 401(k): 3% company contribution and additional 3% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

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