Plant Finance Manager

Ball Corporation•Pittston, PA

36d•$96,000 - $137,180

About The Position

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants. Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe! Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world. Primary Purpose of this Position: The role forms part of two local manufacturing plants senior management teams and will contribute by delivering highly effective business partnership to our Operations team. In doing so this role will drive financial value in our operating costs being our future fuel for growth. All of the referenced responsibilities below relate to two manufacturing plants that this role will be responsible for supporting.

Requirements

Broad training in a related field usually acquired through college or work-related experience
Strong leadership, negotiation and influencing skills
Systems literate including strong Excel capability
Ability to organize, plan, and prioritize
Ability to apply intensive and diversified evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard finance techniques, procedures, and criteria
Working knowledge of finance and forecasting principles, general business principles, legal and accounting practices, Economic Value Added (EVA), manufacturing standard costing, financial modelling and generally accepted managerial practices and procedures
Specific systems experienced preferred within Microsoft suite of applications, ERP systems (SAP, JDE, etc) and Hyperion Essbase (or equivalents)
Available to travel 25% of the time, i.e., one week per month (Saratoga Springs, NY)

Nice To Haves

Working Manufacturing experience preferred

Responsibilities

Acts as a trusted business partner to the manufacturing plant leadership teams to support decision making and driving financial value in the form of EVA performance improvement
In support of the above - monitor and tracks monthly, quarterly and YTD financial related KPI performance and conduct monthly business performance reviews with manufacturing plant management teams
Analyse the month end financial close results and communicate results to the manufacturing plant operations teams (via standardized Ball Operational Excellence routines) and to the regional finance teams effectively, accurately and timely in standardized formats.
Leads the local development cross functionally of the manufacturing plant spending forecasts for annual operating plan cycle (AOP) efficiently, accurately and timely in standardized formats
Leads the local refresh cross functionally of the manufacturing plant spending forecasts for the quarterly refresh of the annual operating plan cycle (3+9, 6+6 & 9+3) efficiently, accurately and timely in standardized formats
Leads the development of an "in month" monthly refresh of financial forecasts for the manufacturing plant (often referred to as the POV) efficiently, accurately and timely in standardized formats. This serves to drive action and understanding within the manufacturing plant senior management team, but also inform regional financial leadership of financial expectations in the near term.
Management of local capital budgets, project control and reporting, including all local investment proposals (AFE's)- cradle to grave oversight from AFE creation to timely asset capitalization and project closure
Support finance led regional, manufacturing plant based or otherwise initiatives to drive EVA performance improvement and standardization of processes
Support non finance teams education at the manufacturing plant to build strong finance and business acumen around the key principles of how the business run, how we make money and how they can impact EVA each and every day

Benefits

This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

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