Senior Finance Manager - Operations & Multi-Site Manufacturing

The Senior Finance Manager – Operations & Multi-Site Manufacturing is a high visibility role that drives the financial performance and strategic business decisions across our entire North America Nalco Water network. The role reports to the VP, Supply Chain Finance and provides business partnership to the VP, Supply Chain Operations and responsible for but not limited to; Performance Mgmt. Cycle (planning, forecasting, month-close), strong financial controls (accounting, Inventory, SOX, capex, etc.) and supporting strategic projects. This role will have oversight and lead our team of Plant Controllers.

What You Will Do:

• Financial Business Partner focused on driving strong financial acumen and decision support that results in financial metric improvement and profitable growth. Key business partner will include the VP Supply Chain Operations and VP Supply Chain Finance/
• Lead and coach team members to ensure they achieve their highest potential and performance through strong development and goal/expectation setting.
• Establish a culture focused on policy adherence and financial controls to ensure we have appropriate monitoring of our operations financially. Assure policies are being followed in accordance with SOX, GAAP and Corporate Policy.
• Manage individually and through their team all accounting procedures related to operations (e.g. G/L maintenance, accruals, expense charge-off, journal entry preparation, payroll processing, capital equipment authorization, asset management and inventory control including inventory reconciliations).
• Participates in monthly forecasting and annual planning cycles – analyzes, understands and explains variances to forecast, plan and prior year to division finance business partners.
• Engages in understanding system implementation developments, including the company-wide ERP strategy, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) supply chain implementations and Product Costing process initiatives.
• Performs special projects and ad-hoc analysis as assigned – including make / buy analysis and capital project analysis (Payback, ROI and IRR analysis as appropriate).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field
• 7 years of experience in finance and/or accounting
• Previous supervisory experience
• Ability to travel up to 10% of time
• Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong change management skill set and leadership capability
• Solid understanding of accounting concepts and practices
• Demonstrated ability to drive financial performance, influence management, and lead change
• Demonstrated history of process improvement, project management and critical thinking
• Strong numerical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong agility in learning and operating in system / data environments to drive efficiency in process and decision support
• MBA, CPA, CMA
• TPM/Lean/Six Sigma knowledge and Green or Black Belt certification
• 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
• 2 years of experience in cost accounting
• Proficiency in SAP, Power BI, Hyperion, Blackline
• Bilingual

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