Senior Finance Manager/Associate Finance Director

Job Description Job Description
Senior Manager / Associate Director – Operational FP&A
Location: Greater Boston Area / Middlesex County, MA
Position Type: Full-Time
Compensation: Competitive Base ($145,000 – $165,000) + Performance Bonus

Position Summary
An established, rapidly scaling global technology manufacturing firm is seeking an analytically driven Senior Finance Manager / Associate Director of FP&A . This pivotal role serves as the primary financial liaison to plant operations, global supply chain, and advanced engineering teams.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a complex, precision-manufacturing environment, balancing high-level corporate strategic planning with hands-on cost accounting, operational forecasting, and cross-functional business partnership.
Core Requirements
Professional Experience: 8+ years of progressive advancement within corporate finance, plant finance, or operational manufacturing environments.
Language Proficiency: Fluency in Mandarin (both spoken and written) is highly preferred.
Technical Domain: Strong expertise in standard costing, inventory valuation, cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) analysis, and gross margin optimization.
Industry Background: Experience working within an FDA-regulated, high-compliance, or highly sophisticated engineering/manufacturing sector (e.g., medical technology, advanced systems, or specialized life sciences instrumentation).
Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in a financial or quantitative discipline. Advanced qualifications such as an MBA, CPA, CMA, or CFA are distinct advantages.
Primary Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Planning & Advisory
Orchestrate the annual budgeting cycle, long-term strategic forecasting, and rolling operational models for corporate and manufacturing business units.
Design and maintain sophisticated financial models to project revenue trajectories, capital allocations, cash flows, and margin structures.
Translate complex financial datasets into actionable business intelligence, delivering clear, executive-ready performance reviews for senior leadership.
Evaluate the financial impact of strategic business cases, including capacity expansions, automation investments, and make-versus-buy scenarios.
Plant Operations & Supply Chain Finance
Partner directly with operations leadership to analyze plant-level metrics, including labor efficiency, overhead absorption, scrap rates, and asset utilization.
Oversee inventory health, tracking excess and obsolete (E&O) exposure, material variances, and working capital efficiency.
Collaborate with procurement and global sourcing teams to monitor supplier cost trends, inflationary pressures, and purchasing variances.
Support the financial tracking and lifecycle management of new product introductions (NPI) and engineering initiatives.
Process Excellence & Team Development
Spearhead process improvements to enhance forecasting accuracy, streamline reporting timelines, and institutionalize financial discipline across non-finance departments.
Assist in the scaling, optimization, or integration of enterprise-level ERP platforms and specialized business intelligence planning tools.
Coordinate closely with corporate accounting teams to ensure flawless alignment between actual monthly performance and ongoing management forecasts.
Provide mentorship, leadership, and professional development to FP&A team members (structured based on final organizational placement).

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