Thomas Edwards Group Inc Hiring for Finance Manager – Supply Chain Job at Plano, TX Full Time

The Finance Manager – Supply Chain will support business leaders and executives in their efforts to make decisions to implement strategies and operational improvements that enhance the company’s performance. This is a meaningful role that elevates the organization with analytical modeling and financial analysis. Our client is seeking a self-motivated, positive, intellectually curious, goal-oriented individual who works with high integrity and intensity and can communicate effectively across the organization.

The Finance Manager will:

• Partner closely with field and headquarters operation teams to drive financial performance and productivity across regions. Effectively communicate with senior leadership on drivers of performance and cause of change vs. budget and prior year. Conduct in-depth analysis on financial metrics as needed, including changes in market share.
• Lead the analysis of labor on a monthly basis. Maintain and improve strategic workforce and labor attrition models as needed. Analyze historical labor costs, efficiency and turnover performance at a location level, determine target labor efficiencies, and continuously monitor labor performance to ensure financial goals are met. Develop models that detail fixed versus variable costs. Lead analytics on general expense trends outside of labor. Communicate results and insights to stakeholders, including management and cross-functional teams.
• Lead the development of analytical models to show greater insights into customer profitability, including volume/rate/mix output, margin changes, capture ratio, uplifts, and cost-to-serve.
• Support the roll-out of improved labor efficiency modeling and methodologies. Train general managers to use the dynamic model, assist with predictive analytics and operationalize model outputs. Collaborate with area directors, region controllers and senior region leaders to ensure full adoption.
• Develop sustainable financial reporting utilizing business intelligence platforms such as Power BI and a new cloud-based corporate performance management system to create and maintain reports, dashboards, and visualizations that provide insights into key performance metrics. Help lead thought process around bringing in new sources of data (such as projected landings by market) from third party data sources to support more forward-looking analyses.
• Lead the annual budgeting process partnering with Operations and the broader FP&A team to align on timelines, key budget assumptions and facilitate leadership reviews.
• Partner with Region Controllers to drive financial best practices across the regions, conduct training and work-withs as needed to support field financial leadership development.
• Collaborate with field teams and FP&A to identify opportunities to streamline the budget process, enhance financial reporting, and drive financial model improvements.
• Analyze additional business opportunities and research company, customer, competitor, and industry trends.
• Support the broader FP&A team and senior leaders on monthly business reviews, quarterly forecasting and board reviews with key financial data as needed.
• Structure, build, and maintain ad-hoc complex financial and decision-making models as needed to develop meaningful insights and recommendations.

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with time spent in FP&A, handling a full P&L and directly applicable experience in supply chain finance or corporate finance.
• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• Outstanding conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills with expertise in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency in multi-site financial performance management including: KPI measurement and tracking variance analysis such as volume/rate/mix, and quarterly forecasting.
• In-depth operational and valuation financial modeling skills, as well as understanding of financial statements and the linkages between income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Highly skilled in efficiently analyzing raw information and large data quantities, driving financial modeling, and translating this into meaningful insights for informed decision making and process improvement.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information and issues in a clear, concise, and relevant manner including verbal and written with a strong executive presence.
• Operates well within a fast-paced, dynamic environment, delivers high quality results within timelines and effectively leads and prioritizes multiple projects that may require significant coordination.
• Open, forward-thinking and welcomes challenges and change with the ability to adapt and embrace a continuously evolving environment while exercising integrative and good judgment.
• Shown ability to build relationships, collaborate, and influence at all levels working with remote locations and a matrixed organization.
• Interested and capable of simultaneously serving in this strategic leadership role while delivering as an individual contributor, executing and producing day-to-day results.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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