Infinera Looking for Sr. Director of Manufacturing Finance at United States Full Time

$161,300.00 – $299,500.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical,

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), ESPP,

life, and disability insurance and to

eligible employees.

Infinera is a global supplier of innovative open optical networking solutions that enable carriers, cloud operators, governments, and enterprises to scale network bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network operations. Infinera solutions deliver industry-leading economics and performance in long-haul, submarine, data center interconnect, and metro transport applications. To learn more about Infinera, visit www.infinera.com, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Infinera is seeking a strategic and operationally focused Head of Manufacturing Finance with the experience, intellect, business acumen, and strong leadership skills required to drive multiple transformations across the global enterprise. Reporting directly to the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), the Head of Manufacturing Finance will be a strong and trusted business partner to not only the CAO but also CFO and WW Operations, Manufacturing and Supply Chain leadership team, with contributions across strategy and day-to-day operations .The Head of Manufacturing Finance will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to drive growth, profitability, end-to-end optimization opportunities, and financial transparency across the businesses. The worldwide financial scope of this role will encompass internal and external manufacturing, factory planning, supply chain, quality, organizational performance, site operations, and environmental health and safety.

The Head of Manufacturing Finance must be strong at developing relationships and demonstrate the ability to lead teams directly and influence cross functionally with peers when needed. This executive should be quick to identify and leverage best practices, systems and processes to positively impact the business and P&L.

Key Responsibilities

The Head of Manufacturing Finance role will also include the following responsibilities:

• Managing a WW manufacturing finance team that supports the following:
• In-house fabrication
• In-house assembly and test
• Contract Manufacturing assemble and test
• General finance support for operations (logistics, procurement, etc.)

• Direct reports will be a head of in-house manufacturing finance (based in Allentown, PA), and head of Contract Manufacturing/ops finance (based in Europe)
• In-house: two staff in the US (one in Bay Area and one in Allentown) in addition to the head of in-house manufacturing finance
• Contract Manufacturing/ops: team supporting CM/ops in Bangalore (one Senior Manager and three staff) in addition to the direct report in Europe)
• Act as the key financial and strategic business partner to the SVP Operations; helping develop and execute the long-range strategy for the company’s global operations.
• Role will be responsible for cradle to grave manufacturing finance, including FP&A inputs (this team will generate forecast data to be provided to the FP&A team) and strategic support for the SVP operations.
• Lead and manage overall Operations annual and periodic budget and forecast processes; partnering with the operations and corporate leadership teams to establish appropriate operational and financial metrics to measure / execute against for achievement of operational goals.
• Work with Operations to set product cost reduction targets, proactively monitor product life cycles, and ensure timely achievement of new products cost reduction targets.
• Drive weekly and monthly financial reporting and analysis to the Operations and enterprise-wide leadership team to ensure Infinera’s worldwide manufacturing function is meeting – if not exceeding – plan.

Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.