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Are you ready to grow your career in an organization that prioritizes your professional development? If you’re passionate about process excellence and the idea of joining a team transforming itself to best-in-class technology and processes excites you, we want to hear from you!
The Finance Director for Supply Chain is a highly visible, senior-facing role that provides companywide support from a central position. This role will report to the VP of Finance for Group Operations and serve as a dotted line business partner to the SVP of Supply Chain. This is a particularly exciting opportunity because this position will be entrusted to creatively stand up next level reporting and analytics for our global supply chain operations.
A successful candidate must be adept at basic monthly financial management, multiyear strategic planning, and creating/maintaining insightful operational metrics. Areas of focus will include leading a team of three in accurate accounting processes, budgeting/forecasting, opportunity analyses, and helping drive scale and efficiency to all elements of our global supply chain. This is a true finance partnership role, and the selected individual must become a respected and trusted voice at the table with many senior leaders in both Group Operations and Finance.
What you will do here:
Finance Partnership:
Lead a team of three accountants/analysts to collectively run an accurate and analytical finance function
Pair closely with the SVP of Supply Chain and his direct reports, becoming a responsive, reliable, and trusted partner for strategic evaluations
Proactively align with finance leaders in other business units to share supply chain costs, create/distribute reporting, and serve as a point of expertise for their questions
Partner with BU finance leaders to obtain plans for print sales and package/disseminate for supply chain planning
Earn the trust of your partners through superior integrity, effort, and performance quality
Raise concerns as necessary, but also creatively work to solution
Stay closely connected to partners and identify financial impacts of evolving operational plans
Monthly Financial Management:
Maintain a regimented month end accounting process with disciplined accruals, reclasses, journal entries, and reporting
Prepare journal entries and accruals so that monthly financials accurately depict performance
Institute a system of checks and balances so that errors can quickly be self-diagnosed in the same period
Following close, evaluate performance and identify drivers of budget/forecast variances
Complete all corporate reporting requests in a timely fashion with thoughtful and useful commentary
Create and distribute monthly reporting on financial measures, operational measures, and insights garnered from the relationship between each
Find opportunities for continuous improvement, and carve efficiencies into your processes
Strategic Planning:
Maintain rolling multiyear financial forecasts and hold a constant understanding of financial health, risks, opportunities, and levers
Prepare realistic budgets and forecasts, and thoughtfully convey the story behind the numbers
Use a bottoms up approach to planning while shepherding business partners to spend profiles in line with financial targets
Insightfully prepare bridges that distill “noise” into key drivers
Prepare and present documents that honestly and impactfully support the objectives of your business partners
Create next level metrics for unit cost tracking/reporting to provide deeper insights into our production/distribution costs
Create opportunity analyses that comprehensively include impacts of all known elements and creatively account for unknown elements
Skills you will need here:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
Minimum of 10 years’ experience in financial planning and analysis or similar finance-related role
Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading an impactful team
Strong accounting background with understanding of GAAP and compliance standards
Past experience with supply chain operations is a plus
Excellent working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
Excellent interpersonal and organization skills with an ability to handle multiple activities, prioritize and manage workload, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously
Strong verbal and written communications
Strong analytical and modeling skills
Comfortability and confidence interacting with and presenting to senior leadership
Self-starter who takes initiative; confident under pressure and able to consistently meet deadlines
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About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
Base Pay Range
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
$131,600.00 – $210,600.00 USD
Cengage Group , a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms.
We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
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