Director of Finance - Plant

About the position

This role will be a critical leadership role for the plant in terms of driving the transformation agenda. This role will be tasked with supporting and guiding the financial analysis and reporting for the site. The individual will provide leadership with reliable analysis and insight to be used in strategic planning and goal setting for Chobani’s Supply Chain leadership team members. This role ensures high level, cross functional communication with emphasis on financial performance, trend analysis and delivery of productivity initiatives while ensuring the plant follows all appropriate controls as well as GAAP principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide FP&A support to the accounting teams related to budgeting, productivity, demand planning, reporting, and metrics in a timely manner
• Partner with Supply Chain team to deliver upon site transformation plan
• Provide coaching, mentoring and education to the operations teams relating to linking plant operating metrics to plant financial metrics
• Support the Supply Chain Finance and Accounting team with month and quarter end close processes
• Identify and proactively surface business challenges and opportunities; propose and create solutions
• Actively manage manufacturing conversion cost to provide guidance and identify levels to leadership for how to control and influence expenses
• Dive deeply into financial data and become a subject matter expert to provide additional insights
• Work to transform and build the site Finance team, including challenging legacy practices, updating policies, and building a forward-looking finance function
• Create presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items, and effectively frame decisions to be made
• Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, and prior-year expenses, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement
• Partner directly with the Supply Chain finance team to collaborate on metrics, goals, and business reviews
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization
• Collaborate with leadership to better understand and identify goals and financial targets to drive the overall business objectives
• Responsible for the accuracy of the standard costs starting with the bill of materials and item costs, labor routings, labor rates, as well as overhead assignments
• Reports variances to set standards in a manner that supervisors and managers can understand and takes corrective action
• Accountable for the performance of the plant, explaining all production variances on a weekly / monthly basis as well as participating in the proactive measures to reduce variances from standard cost
• Analyzes and models changes in product design, raw materials, overhead, manufacturing methods, etc., for effects on production costs
• Reviews control procedures over accounting and financial activities
• Provides guidance to ensure that internal accounting controls are in place to protect company assets
• Ensures an adequate system of internal control is maintained, and that general ledger accounts are correctly stated, maintains SOX compliance

Requirements

• 7+ years of a broad financial experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably publicly traded CPG manufacturing company
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business required/ MBA preferred
• General knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles
• Standard Costing experience
• SAP experience strongly preferred
• Experience developing financial reports and KPI metrics
• Demonstrated financial analysis and modeling skills
• Ability to provide thought leadership to shape future decisions
• Ability to draw various data from multiple sources and synthesize data into actionable decisions
• Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with various management levels as well as the ability to work in cross functional teams
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast-paced environment
• Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills
• Superior attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture
• Demonstrated ability to influence others through effective verbal and written communication
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects across an organization

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision coverage
• 401K match
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Health savings accounts
• Flexible spending accounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health care navigation
• Mental health services
• Fertility assistance
• Paid parental leave
• 120 hours of PTO
• 11 Holidays each year