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Job summary: This position leads the Manufacturing Finance Business Partner function, provides proactive financial leadership and complex analytical support in the development, implementation & execution of business & corporate strategic objectives.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Leads the Manufacturing Finance Business Partner team, driving standardization across the function to ensure efficient consolidation and consistency in processes.
Oversee the development and management of the annual operational budget, ensuring alignment with financial goals. This includes updating production cost center labor and overhead rates, monitoring absenteeism, disability, and overtime expenditures, and adjusting cost center applied hours based on sales forecasts.
Collaborates with manufacturing site leaders & production managers/supervisors to provide consolidated monthly financial results and ensure alignment with operational objectives, including assessing the impact of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) on financial performance.
Serve as the primary Finance Manufacturing Business Partner for our Europe and Asia manufacturing sites, delivering and interpreting financial and operational data (e.g., production order variances, cost center spending, labor metrics) while offering insights and recommendations to drive business performance improvements.
Lead ad-hoc projects requiring flexibility, problem-solving, and collaboration, such as savings analysis from product transfers, scrap and cycle-time reduction initiatives, automation driven cost savings and semi-annual costing lot size (CLS) updates.
Work closely with global Finance teams, including Controlling (US, Europe, Asia), FP&A, and Global Pricing, to ensure alignment and support strategic financial decision-making across regions.
Drive the implementation of best practices and process improvements to enhance operational efficiency, productivity, and deliver significant cost savings across our operation functions.
Promote financial literacy across the organization, ensuring all business decisions are grounded in sound financial analysis and aligned with strategic business objectives.
Ensure adherence to global finance policies, serving as the primary governance body to uphold financial integrity and compliance throughout the organization.
Required Minimum Qualifications
Education/Certifications:
Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business or equivalent regional certification (CPA, CMA or CGMA)
Skills and Experience:
Minimum 10 years of accounting experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a Cost Accounting or Manufacturing Financial Analysis Role
Minimum 3+ years direct people management
Strong demonstrable business acumen & ability to interpret financial reports to the business, drive appropriate actions, as well as ability to work with the business on complex problem-solving
Interpersonal skills, relationship builder & team player
SAP experience essential
Experience with Data Analytics tools & solutions
High proficiency Microsoft Excel required
Job Environment:
Physical Requirements:
Standing Rarely (0-15%)
Sitting Frequently (46-100%)
Lifting Up to 10lbs without assistance
Carrying Up to 10lbs without assistance
Walking Rarely (0-15%)
Hearing Ability to detect noises with or without corrective device(s)
Vision Clarity of vision, with or without corrective lenses
Mental Requirements:
Problem Solving Frequently (46-100%)
Making Decisions Ability to make decisions that have a moderate impact
Supervise Frequently (46-100%)
Interpret Data Frequently (46-100%)
Organize Frequently (46-100%)
Read/Write Frequently (46-100%)
Communication Frequently (46-100%)
Work Environment
High Temperatures Rarely (0-15%)
Low Temperatures Rarely (0-15%)
Noises Moderate (business office with computers, printers, and light office noises)
Fumes Exposure Rarely (0-15%)
Note: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor. All requirements are subject to change and updates.
We also provide eligible employees with a competitive benefits package that includes health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401k savings plan, life and disability insurance, tuition assistance and more, to meet the diverse needs of all employees and their family members.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Greene, Tweed is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other federally protected class.
Drug Free Workplace:
Greene, Tweed is a Drug Free Workplace. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation subject to federal, state, and local laws.
NOTE: Greene, Tweed is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for employment opportunities, unless they have a written agreement for the position they are contacting us about. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at GT without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of Greene, Tweed, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Greene, Tweed as a result of the referral or through other means.