Sr Manager, Finance - Operations Center of Excellence
About The Position
Lead the Operations Finance Center of Excellence, producing standard finance reporting, templates, and tools centrally for the plant network. This enables Plant Controllers and Regional Finance Operations Controllers to focus on analysis, partnership, and action while improving consistency, data quality, automation, and financial rigor across Operations Finance and the Rise Recipe continuous improvement program. The role owns standard network reporting and data, including plant scorecards, plant P&L packages, performance-review data packs, cost-roll and annual operating plan templates, LaunchPAD data quality, and cross-plant benchmarks. It develops and maintains standardized processes, calendars, templates, and tools; coordinates network-wide finance processes; tracks review actions; and drives reporting automation and adoption of best practices. The position also owns the finance methodology for Rise Recipe savings and supports productivity and continuous improvement initiatives through project costing, benefit measurement, and reporting. It maintains product and customer profitability data governance in Rise Business Insights, conducts network-level financial and operational analysis, and prepares analyses and presentations for Operations and Finance leadership. The role supports food safety, quality standards, and the legality of manufactured products, and performs other related duties as assigned. Travel to plant locations may be needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, including meaningful manufacturing or operations finance experience.
- Food manufacturing, consumer products, or process-manufacturing experience.
- Strong cost accounting knowledge, including standard costing and manufacturing variance analysis covering material usage, labor, and overhead.
- Demonstrated experience standardizing reporting, improving processes, or leading cross-functional finance initiatives.
- Ability to extract, consolidate, validate, and analyze data from multiple sources and turn it into actionable insights.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capabilities.
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, including managing multiple priorities, influencing across functions and levels, and driving follow-through.
- Ability to travel to plant locations as needed.
Nice To Haves
- CPA, CMA, MBA, or another relevant advanced degree or certification.
- Experience with SAP or a comparable manufacturing ERP and BI or reporting tools.
- Experience with reporting automation, RPA or AI tools, and Lean or continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Produce and publish standard network reporting for every plant, including weekly scorecard finance metrics, standard plant P&L packages by working day 3, and data packs for monthly plant performance reviews, Pod Reviews, and Steerco.
- Provide quarterly cost-roll and annual operating plan (OPC) templates, tools, and data for Plant Controllers.
- Maintain LaunchPAD as the single source of plant data and partner with Finance, BI, and systems teams to improve data quality, consistency, and automation, while retiring duplicate reports.
- Maintain cross-plant benchmark data and definitions for Regional Finance Operations Controllers.
- Develop new or plant-specific reporting as needed and transition it to the appropriate Plant or Regional Controller once stable; retain standard network reporting within the Center of Excellence.
- Develop and maintain standardized Operations Finance processes, close calendars, templates, and tools across the plant network.
- Coordinate network-wide Operations Finance processes, including annual operating planning, forecast consolidation, and audit and CapEx coordination.
- Track actions and commitments from monthly plant performance reviews, Pod Reviews, and Steerco, and follow up with owners.
- Identify and deliver automation for recurring reporting and data processes to reduce manual work across the Controller organization.
- Share and drive adoption of best practices across Plant and Regional Controllers, and onboard new Controllers on standard reports and tools.
- Own the finance methodology for Rise Recipe savings, ensuring savings are real, tracked, validated with Plant Controllers, and not double-counted.
- Support productivity and continuous improvement initiatives through project costing, benefit measurement, and reporting, in partnership with the CI Director and CI Managers.
- Maintain data governance for product and customer profitability in Rise Business Insights.
- Perform network-level financial and operational analysis for the VP, Operations Finance, identifying trends, outliers, and opportunities across plants.
- Prepare clear, concise financial analyses and presentations for Operations and Finance leadership.
- Support the food safety program, quality standards, and legality of manufactured products.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Annual bonus eligibility, subject to eligibility requirements.
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements.
- 401(k) contributions, subject to eligibility requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
