Senior Finance Manager

Light & Wonder • Las Vegas, NV

5d

About The Position

The Senior Finance Manager is a key business partner for the Operations business, overseeing Cost of Goods Sold-related Operations spending. The role performs analyses to support informed business decisions and identify and drive efficiencies. It partners across Supply Chain to provide financial guidance, optimize profitability, and help business partners understand their contributions to business results.

The role forecasts manufacturing labor and overhead absorption against actuals based on production history and forecasts, covering new and refurbished electronic gaming machines, tables, utilities, and systems. It also handles cost and inventory forecasting, standard-cost matters, refurbished-game return-on-investment analysis, portfolio analysis, obsolescence and scrap, inventory count variances, purchase price variance forecasting, inventory adjustments, manufacturing variances, expedited freight, and rework charges.

The manager works with Procurement to evaluate cost-per-platform forecasts against production actuals, explain variances, and adjust forecasts when bills of materials or vendor pricing differ from expectations. The role also oversees production review and reporting, supports Oracle improvement and IT/Cost Accounting projects, and ensures labor, overhead, and direct-material costs are calculated and forecast appropriately. Additional responsibilities include leading a project to move standard-cost changes from monthly to quarterly and conducting recurring raw-material and used-inventory obsolescence reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners, including manufacturing, demand and supply planning, sourcing, commercial finance, and purchasing.
• Knowledge of ERP and financial reporting systems, such as Hyperion.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills and the ability to manage large data sets.
• Ability to maintain a strategic view while working at a detailed level and connect portfolio priorities and strategy to daily supply-chain operations and decisions.
• Ability to work with connectedness, transparency, and clarity; listen to stakeholders and distill information into pertinent, actionable content.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic business, process information quickly, and communicate outcomes, alternatives, and action plans with appropriate urgency.
• Strong analytical background.

Nice To Haves

• Supply Chain finance experience.
• Experience with SQL and AI.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Cost of Goods Sold-related Operations spending and analyze results to support business decisions and identify efficiencies.
• Forecast manufacturing labor and overhead absorption against actuals using production history and forecasts for new and refurbished gaming machines, tables, utilities, and systems.
• Partner with Supply Chain to provide financial guidance, improve profitability, and educate business partners on their impact on business results.
• Forecast costs, inventory, and standard-cost-related items.
• Analyze refurbished game costs to determine financial return on investment.
• Use data analyses to help prioritize the portfolio and deliver financial commitments.
• Monitor obsolescence, scrap, physical and cycle count variances, write-ups and write-downs of inventory, work-in-process and manufacturing variances, and expedited freight.
• Partner with Sourcing to forecast Purchase Price Variance and analyze actuals.
• Partner cross-functionally on rework charges for raw materials, work in process, and related items; help identify risks and opportunities.
• Evaluate Procurement’s cost-per-platform forecast against production actuals, explain cost variances, and adjust forecasts when average bills of materials or vendor pricing differ from expectations.
• Support Oracle improvement, IT, and Cost Accounting projects related to production review.
• Ensure management oversight of production review and reporting so that costs per platform are accurate.
• Ensure labor and overhead burden are calculated properly per serial number relative to standard build times.
• Ensure direct-material costs are within forecast expectations per unit, considering expected standard-cost changes.
• Align annual raw-material standard-cost changes with Procurement’s expected cost per unit.
• Lead a project to change standard-cost updates from monthly to quarterly to reduce the effort involved.
• Conduct monthly raw-material obsolescence reviews with Inventory Planning.
• Conduct quarterly raw-material obsolescence reviews with Shared Services Accounting’s Global Close & Controls team.
• Conduct obsolescence reviews for used inventory.

What This Job Offers

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