Manufacturing Finance Manager

4 days ago


Perrysburg, Ohio, United States First Solar Full time

Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Manufacturing Finance Manager to provide financial leadership to at least one manufacturing site, supply chain, or logistics. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance and be able to collaborate with multiple disciplines to provide analytical insight to leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and report on corporate-wide manufacturing and operational performance metrics for product costing and inventory management.
  • Support the development of the Company's long term and short term financial projections, department budgets, cash flow projections, and any operational or strategic initiatives to maximize profitability and/or enable cost reduction initiatives.
  • Collaborate with IT and other functional leaders to implement business processes, systems, reporting, and process enhancements that are cost effective, scalable, and compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley (404).
  • Review the accuracy of the financial close and compliance with US GAAP.
  • Manage the goals, development, and efficient deployment of a team of financial analysts.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years combined experience working for a public multi-national company and/or a public accounting firm.
  • Industry experience with manufacturing (required), renewable energy and/or technology, preferred.
  • Experience working with international teams, Asia preferred.
  • Demonstrated history of agility and ability to manage change in a fast-paced and high growth environment.
  • Experience preparing and/or presenting annual budgets, short-term plans, operational metrics, and monthly actual and forecast results to site leadership.
  • Experience in plant controllership and driving cost reduction projects.
  • Proven track record of developing value-driven business process transformation that fosters collaborative functional leader buy-in, system improvements, and cost-efficient business processes.
  • Bachelor's degree in finance-related field, required.
  • MBA or Master's degree in finance-related field, preferred.
  • Certified Public Accountant, preferred.
  • Chartered Financial Analyst, preferred.

Preferred Skills/Competencies:

  • Ability to make decisions by assimilating multiple sources of information from global constituents and applying experience, judgment, and logical reasoning in an ambiguous, changing, and fast-paced environment.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to identify and succinctly communicate financial issues, opportunities, or threats to the operating and financial performance of the manufacturing site.
  • Possess an in-depth understanding of concepts and principles within own discipline and have a basic commercial awareness and business acumen within other disciplines.
  • Solid oral and written communication with a proven ability to distill information for its intended audience and an ability to negotiate internally and often at higher levels in the organization.
  • Strong numerical proficiency, organizational, problem-solving skills, and use of logic.
  • Ability to operate effectively within a global multi-cultural organization and collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Efficient at performing and reviewing analysis, spotting errors, and teaching others to review while establishing high-quality standards of performance and identifying opportunities to provide value-added analysis beyond basic actuals, forecasts, budgets, and reports.
  • A strong working knowledge of technical U.S. GAAP in inventory accounting and hands-on experience performing inventory close-related activities in a standard and actual cost environment.
  • Familiarity with enterprise resource management and finance systems.
  • Proficient use of all Microsoft Office suite programs.

Travel: U.S. and international travel of typically not to exceed 10% of time, required.

Estimated Salary Range: $110,000 - $150,000.



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