Operations Finance Manager

Job Title: Operations Finance Manager
Job ID: 90574
Location: Jacksonville, Florida

What you will be doing: Operations Finance & Performance

• Partner with plant managers and operations leadership to understand and improve financial and operational performance.
• Analyze plant-level P&L results, including revenue, material costs, labour, manufacturing overhead, absorption, and operating expenses.
• Develop and maintain key operational and financial performance metrics, including volume, pricing, material margins, labour efficiency, overhead absorption, productivity, scrap, and conversion costs.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior year, identifying key drivers and opportunities for improvement.
• Provide clear and actionable financial insights to plant and senior leadership teams.
• Support monthly operating reviews and provide financial analysis for key operational decisions.
• Develop financial models and business cases for productivity initiatives, capital investments, plant rationalization, capacity decisions, and other operational initiatives.

Cost Accounting & Manufacturing Finance

• Oversee and analyze manufacturing costs, including direct labour, materials, manufacturing overhead and other conversion costs.
• Analyze manufacturing variances and identify root causes and operational actions required to improve performance.
• Understand standard costing methodologies and evaluate the financial impact of changes in production volumes, product mix, pricing, labour, overhead absorption, and manufacturing efficiency
• Identify cost trends and investigate significant variances with operations.
• Partner with accounting to ensure manufacturing results are accurately reflected in the financial statements.

Inventory & Working Capital

• Analyze inventory levels, turns, aging, excess and obsolete inventory, and inventory accuracy.
• Partner with operations and supply chain to identify opportunities to improve inventory productivity and working capital.
• Analyze inventory movements and understand the financial impact of production, purchasing, sales, and demand changes.
• Support cycle count and physical inventory processes and investigate significant variances.
• Monitor working capital performance and identify opportunities to improve cash conversion.

Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting

• Lead or support annual operating budgets and periodic forecasts for manufacturing operations.
• Develop detailed plant-level financial models incorporating production volumes, labour, overhead, material costs, inventory and other operational drivers.
• Evaluate forecast assumptions and challenge operational inputs where appropriate.
• Provide ongoing analysis of forecast-to-actual performance and update financial outlooks based on changing business conditions
• Prepare management reporting and dashboards that clearly communicate operational and financial performance.

Continuous Improvement, Analytics & Business Partnership

• Establish strong relationships with plant managers, operations, supply chain, sales, and corporate finance teams.
• Act as a finance business partner who can challenge operational assumptions while maintaining a collaborative approach.
• Use data to identify trends, root causes, risks, and opportunities that may not be immediately apparent from financial statements.
• Help operations understand the financial consequences of operational decisions and translate financial objectives into operational actions.
• Drive a culture of accountability around plant performance and financial results.
• Improve financial processes, reporting and controls through automation and standardization.
• Support special projects, acquisitions, integration activities and other strategic initiatives as required.

What you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering or a related discipline.
• CPA designation or equivalent accounting qualification is an asset.
• 5+ years of progressive finance experience, preferably within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and cost accounting.
• Demonstrated experience with inventory accounting and inventory management.
• Experience with standard costing, variance analysis, absorption, labour and overhead costing.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify the underlying drivers of financial performance.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing P&Ls and the relationship between operational metrics and financial results.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, and financial reporting
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work effectively with large and complex data sets.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while also partnering effectively with operations and senior leadership.