Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Finance

SiTime Corporation•Santa Clara, CA

6d•$154,710 - $221,230

About The Position

SiTime is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager, Manufacturing Finance, to serve as the primary finance partner for Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain. The role connects operational performance to financial outcomes by owning manufacturing planning and analysis, inventory and standard costing processes, gross margin insights, capital spending analysis, and manufacturing variance reporting. This role combines financial planning and analysis, cost accounting, and controllership. The successful candidate will translate operational data into financial implications and recommended actions while strengthening processes, controls, analytics, and cross-functional accountability. The position supervises and develops cost accounting and operations finance resources and partners across Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Accounting, IT, and FP&A. SiTime is a Precision Timing company whose MEMS-based programmable solutions serve applications including AI data centers, automated driving, industrial and humanoid robots, wearables, and IoT. The company reports having shipped more than 4 billion devices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing finance, operations finance, FP&A, cost accounting, inventory accounting, or related roles, including leadership responsibility.
Deep knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, purchase price variance, yield variance, COGS, gross margin, working capital, and balance sheet reconciliations.
Demonstrated ability to partner with Operations and Supply Chain leaders and translate operational activity into financial insight and business recommendations.
Strong financial modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and data interpretation skills, including the ability to work with large, complex datasets.
Hands-on experience with ERP and financial systems.
Advanced Excel skills and experience building repeatable models, reconciliations, dashboards, and analytical templates.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex cost, inventory, and margin topics to finance and non-finance audiences.
English proficiency sufficient to communicate, collaborate, and perform job responsibilities in a professional business environment.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, CMA, or comparable credential.
Experience in semiconductor, electronics, hardware, or another technology-driven manufacturing environment.
Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP, or similar platforms.
Experience with planning, reporting, and visualization tools.

Responsibilities

Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for manufacturing operations, including overhead, supply chain costs, inventory, logistics, subcontractor costs, capital spending, and cost improvement initiatives.
Partner with Operations and Supply Chain leaders on monthly and quarterly reviews, including KPIs, variance analysis, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
Develop driver-based models linking operational drivers to COGS, gross margin, inventory, and cash.
Prepare financial narratives for executive reviews, the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, monthly close commentary, and ad hoc scenarios.
Analyze gross margin performance and identify manufacturing, sales mix, supply chain, and engineering trends, risks, and opportunities.
Analyze manufacturing variances, quantify their financial impact, and partner with operating teams on root-cause resolution.
Build repeatable gross margin and inventory bridges across price, volume, mix, cost, yield, utilization, and timing.
Validate cost-reduction assumptions, track realized savings, and maintain accountability for margin improvement actions.
Lead standard cost updates and cost rollups, including bills of material, supplier pricing, yield assumptions, test and assembly costs, routings, and overhead rates.
Ensure standard costs are accurate, documented, controlled, and aligned with current manufacturing economics and operational assumptions.
Support new product introductions by validating early cost models and establishing scalable costing processes for new products and manufacturing flows.
Partner with Accounting during monthly and quarterly close on inventory, COGS, manufacturing variance, and balance sheet reporting.
Oversee inventory subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliations, valuation reviews, reserve analysis support, and resolution of reconciling items.
Analyze inventory turns, movements, adjustments, cycle counts, scrap, excess and obsolete exposure, and working capital implications.
Improve inventory workpapers, ownership, review cadence, exception tracking, supporting documentation, and audit readiness.
Support internal and external audits concerning inventory, standard costs, reserves, manufacturing variances, and related controls.
Evaluate capital requests with Operations, Engineering, and Finance, including business cases, ROI, payback, capacity impact, and strategic alignment.
Track approved capital projects, actual and forecast spending, timing risks, capitalization assumptions, and capital productivity.
Identify underutilized assets, delayed programs, cost overruns, and opportunities to improve capital discipline and post-investment accountability.
Supervise, coach, and develop cost accounting and operations finance resources; set priorities, review deliverables, and build analytical capability.
Partner with cross-functional teams to improve transparency, decision quality, and ownership.
Simplify manual processes, automate recurring analysis, and support ERP and reporting improvements for inventory and manufacturing finance.
Balance strong controls with practical, efficient processes suited to a fast-moving global semiconductor business.