Operations Finance Manager

AprilAire is looking to hire a driven and energetic Operations Finance Manager to be the business partner for the Operations Leadership team.

This highly visible role combines Cost Accounting and FP&A responsibilities, ensuring accurate financial statements while also driving forecasting, budgeting, and strategic analysis. The Ops Finance Manager will be intimately involved with the manufacturing facilities, providing financial rigor, identifying cost-out opportunities, and serving as a strategic partner for operations.

Additionally, this position will provide oversight for the cycle counting process, fixed asset allocation and updating/maintaining standard costs.  The position will be based in our Manufacturing facility in Poynette WI with one day a week at our Madison WI manufacturing facility. 

Work location: The position will be based in our Manufacturing facility in Poynette WI with one day a week at our Madison WI manufacturing facility. 

• Ownership of plant financial reporting, business partner to the Operations Leadership team and liaison between operations and other departments within AprilAire
• Complete month-end cost of goods sold entries; review system provided data for accuracy and completeness.
• Review inventory purchase transactions for the month identifying actual costs vs standard (e.g., purchase price variances) and separating the variances by main category.
• Responsibility for the inventory accuracy process, cycle counting, inventory reconciliation and including up to managing the inventory team.
• Complete summaries of cost of goods sold by product line
• Reconcile month-end inventory balances between system provided data and general ledger.
• Proactively identify cost out opportunities and drive for productivity to offset inflation
• Complete product line income statements and margin reports
• Review large variances throughout month and lead to corrective action solutions
• Review general ledger transactions weekly and investigate unusual transactions
• Complete line-item comparison of actual costs to budget & current forecast.
• Provide plants with daily labor reports
• Provide plants with weekly overhead spending
• Prepare and present monthly operations reviews with variance understanding and corrective action recommendations
• Complete periodic or ad-hoc cost analysis.
• Complete the annual budget and periodic forecast updates.
• Update standard inventory costs & product pricing in the system.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, MBA and/or CPA a plus
• 5+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing environment
• Management and leadership experience a plus
• Understanding of cost accounting standards around BOM’s, standard costing, reserves and applying accounting principles, theories and concepts to financial transactions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and work with global partners
• Ability to motivate and lead by example thus showing the ability to organize, support and clearly communicate with accounting and non-accounting professionals
• Mapics experience preferred, but not required.