Plant Finance Manager

PAI Holdings LLC • Greenville, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Finance Manager provides plant-level financial and operational support to PAI Pharmaceuticals, with primary responsibility for cost accounting, inventory forecasting, and operational finance. The role partners closely with Operations and Supply Chain to drive financial performance, inventory optimization, and working capital efficiency. It owns cost accounting activities, month-end close, and forward-looking financial analysis, ensuring alignment between operational decisions and financial outcomes.

The manager serves as a key liaison between Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain, translating production plans, inventory movements, and supply decisions into actionable financial insights. The position supports plant forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans; production and absorption modeling; capital-project monitoring; and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• At least 5 years of experience in a financial analyst or accounting role; manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.
• Strong understanding of cost accounting, inventory accounting, and manufacturing finance.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities.
• English proficiency.
• Valid authorization to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Manufacturing experience.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle; SAP is preferred.
• Demonstrated cost accounting experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own plant-level cost accounting, including standard cost maintenance, bill of material and routing validation, labor and overhead rate analysis, and absorption accounting.
• Analyze and explain manufacturing variances, including material usage, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, yield, and mix variances.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering on accurate costing for new products, process changes, and capital projects.
• Monitor inventory valuation and cost-flow assumptions in accordance with GAAP and company policy.
• Perform month-end close activities, including production variance analysis, purchase price variance reconciliation, absorption analysis, labor reconciliation, inventory analysis, journal entry preparation, and balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Analyze and communicate financial performance versus targets, highlighting trends, risks, and variance drivers.
• Maintain accurate audit trails and supporting documentation in compliance with GAAP and third-party audit requirements.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Planning, and Operations to develop and maintain rolling finished-goods and raw-material inventory forecasts aligned with demand plans, production schedules, and purchasing strategies.
• Analyze volume, mix, yield, and efficiency impacts on inventory balances, absorption, cost of goods sold, and working capital.
• Support raw-material forecasting by analyzing historical consumption, bills of material, supplier lead times, and minimum order quantities to identify financial risks and cash-optimization opportunities.
• Own financial analysis of inventory turns, days on hand, and slow-moving, excess, or obsolete inventory exposure, including reserve modeling and trend reporting.
• Translate MRP outputs and production plans into financial projections for inventory balances, purchase price variance, absorption, and cash flow.
• Support preparation of plant financial forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans, including income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow impacts.
• Maintain a rolling production and absorption model outlining volume and mix impacts versus plan.
• Participate as the Finance representative in production planning, S&OP, or IBP discussions, providing financial insight into trade-offs involving service levels, inventory investment, cost, and capacity utilization.
• Develop and monitor forecast accuracy and bias metrics related to inventory and production assumptions.
• Work with Operations to understand and quantify the financial impact of OEE performance, throughput, and labor efficiency.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on fixed assets and capital projects, including capitalization, depreciation, and budget-to-actual tracking.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying financial opportunities tied to operational performance and inventory management.

What This Job Offers

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