Sr. Finance Manager Operations

Senior Operations Finance Manager

The Senior Operations Finance Manager will lead financial oversight, consolidation, and strategic project support for six plastic bag manufacturing plants. This role serves as a key finance business partner to plant leadership and operations, driving financial performance through disciplined forecasting, cost control, capital project evaluation, and standardized reporting. The position requires strong consolidation expertise, hands-on operational finance experience, and the ability to manage complex cross-plant initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Leadership & Consolidation
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial consolidation for six manufacturing plants, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
• Prepare consolidated P&L, gross margin, and operating cost analysis with clear insights into plant-level and enterprise performance.
• Develop standardized financial reporting, dashboards, and KPIs across all plants.
• Ensure alignment with corporate accounting policies, internal controls, and audit requirements.

• Operations Finance & Cost Management
• Partner with plant managers and operations leaders to analyze manufacturing costs, variances, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
• Drive cost reduction initiatives across raw materials, conversion costs, logistics, and fixed costs.
• Support pricing, margin analysis, and customer profitability initiatives specific to plastic bag products.
• Monitor working capital metrics, including inventory turns and slow-moving or obsolete inventory.

• Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning
• Lead the annual budget and rolling forecast processes across all six plants.
• Evaluate volume, mix, and cost assumptions; identify risks and opportunities.
• Support long-range planning with scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis.
• Provide variance explanations and actionable recommendations to senior management.

• Capital & Project Oversight
• Financial lead for capital investments, automation projects, and process improvement initiatives across plants.
• Build business cases, ROI analyses, and post-investment reviews for capital and strategic projects.
• Track project spend, timelines, and financial benefits realization.
• Ensure cross-plant alignment and financial discipline on major initiatives.

• Cross-Functional Partnership & Leadership
• Act as a trusted advisor to plant leadership, operations, supply chain, and engineering teams.
• Drive best practice sharing and financial standardization across plants.
• Support integration of new plants, lines, or systems as needed.
• Mentor and develop plant staff or analysts, fostering a strong operations finance culture.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 8–12+ years of progressive finance experience, including operations or manufacturing finance.
• Proven experience consolidating financial results across multiple plants or business units.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, manufacturing variances, and capital project finance.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP systems and BI tools.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to influence plant and senior leadership.

Preferred

• MBA, CPA, or CMA designation.
• Experience in plastics, packaging, or high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Prior responsibility for multi-site operations or shared services environments.
• Experience supporting Lean, continuous improvement, or automation initiatives.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking with strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage complexity across multiple locations.
• Strong business partnering and leadership presence.
• Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset