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Orion Talent, a customer-centric company focused on helping people discover meaningful careers and businesses grow by finding, delivering, and engaging the best talent around the world, is currently recruiting for Finance Manager positions with a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer, and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world.
Position Details
Location:
Quincy, WA
Compensation:
$120K + 15% bonus
Benefits:
Coupled with compensation and bonus incentive programs, benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.
Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:
Health Insurance Benefits-Medical, Dental, Vision
Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
Well-being programs including company-wide events and a wellness incentive program
Paid Time Off
Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
Family-Friendly Employee events
Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services
Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Position Description
As a Finance Manager, you will be a key player in the plant management team for a large plant or several small/medium plants, providing key analysis and insights to guide decision making, as well as taking a leadership role in challenging the plant to improve financial performance.
You will be expected to take a hands-on leadership approach in implementing loss elimination along with other VeLOCity daily management systems.
You will provide strong leadership and direction to the local plant finance team to ensure the financial accounting and ing needs of the plant are met to enable the plant management team to meet their budgeted financial goals and objectives.
You will also ensure all plant accounting/ing is done in a timely and accurate manner and in accordance with US GAAP Accounting Standards and accounting policies/ procedures for the company.
Additional responsibilities will include:
Key leader of plant operations team.
Lead and develop the local plant finance team.
Provide financial advice, along with accurate and timely operational performance ing, to the plant management team to ensure sound financial and operational decisions.
Use analysis techniques and metrics to identify and make recommendations to plant management to improve operational performance and lower unit costs.
Provide finance leadership for Lean Manufacturing/TPM initiatives at the plant level.
Instill strong cost control and planning discipline to assist senior plant management in controlling manufacturing costs.
Lead the annual business planning process for the plant, including preparation of the financial manufacturing business plan and product standard costs.
Assist plant management team with capital planning, including calculating and evaluating financial payback on all capital expenditure proposals.
Work with divisional and corporate finance/business units on a number of initiatives including: providing cost information for innovation and cost reduction projects, identifying cost/performance improvement opportunities and leadership of divisions or companywide initiatives.
Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the plants accounting systems and records, as well as strict compliance to all company policies, procedures, and controls.
Develop necessary ERP system proficiency for both finance and other plant functions (SAP experience preferred).
Leverage systems capability to enhance data access, analytical information, and management ing.
Key focus areas include materials cost and usage management, labor cost and utilization, asset utilization and overhead expenditure control.
Position Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and/or Finance required.
CMA or CPA preferred.
Minimum 7 years of professional experience in Finance/Accounting preferably in a manufacturing environment.
Experience with financial modeling.
Proficient with GAAP to include a fundamental knowledge and driving compliance to GAAP.
Proficient with Microsoft Office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access).
Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups, and other data manipulation formulas).
Experience working with and making recommendations for efficiencies with systems and tools, such as SAP (R/3, FICO, BI).
Ability to identify areas for continuous improvement and/or cost reductions and making recommendations for enhancement.
Ability to consolidate complex information into usable customer-oriented formats.
Experience working closely with internal customers, peers, and effectively managing those relationships.
Experience providing insightful analysis to business partners in response to business need or opportunity.
Ability to deal with ambiguity, change, and a dynamic business environment.
