Senior Finance Manager - Operations

About the position

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Senior Finance Manager - Operations to join our team located at our headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Responsibilities

• Lead/support overall budgeting and forecasting processes including yearly review of Standard Costs, quarterly forecasting and monthly analysis
• Monitor manufacturing financial performance by analyzing results and identifying corrective actions to eliminate unfavorable plant variances and drive efficiencies
• Own the Inventory process including forecasting, analyzing and presenting to leadership
• Maintain and publish KPI trackers for productivity, material usage variances, scrap sales/consumption, write-offs, make-vs-buy, labor and overhead efficiencies, etc.
• Support BU strategic cost reduction initiatives
• Lead consolidation of monthly plant results and ownership of standardized reporting templates
• Partner with Plant Controllers to develop financial tools, processes, and analysis to improve manufacturing reporting in support of business goals and objectives
• Perform various month-end close activities, including uploading and validating monthly commodity prices within SAP, recording capitalized variances, distributing inventory in-transit reporting, etc.
• Own monthly tracking and reporting of import freight and make-vs-buy penalties and coordinate with International and Supply Chain teams to improve forecasting and reporting
• Model costs for existing portfolio, product changes, and new product introductions
• Foster an organizational environment that values process improvement and sponsors efforts/supports functional initiatives to improve processes and cost savings opportunities
• Participate on cross functional teams and represent manufacturing finance as the functional expert to assist with modeling and decision making
• Make decisions and recommendations to senior functional or business unit management that support business and manufacturing strategies
• Establish and oversee proper controls and compliance processes
• Identify compliance issues and communicate deviation to policy and procedures to management and resolve issues and validate overall health of internal controls within span of responsibility
• Review complex data and analytics from various sources for accuracy and provide high level summary information to support decision-making process
• Ensure reporting is completed on time and without error ensuring enterprise and business unit standards for reporting are met and within guidelines
• Supervise operations finance analyst or rotational interns
• Lead various special projects
• Coordinate, standardize and streamline reporting/forecasting processes
• Complete ad hoc financial modeling and analysis as required for management

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of related professional Accounting/Finance experience, preferably in a large manufacturing environment
• Proficient in MS Office, with advanced proficiency in Excel, including ability to use array formulas, pivot tables and conduct financial modeling
• Highly proficient in SAP, as well as automated financial systems such as Hyperion and SmartView
• Demonstrated expertise with financial modeling
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to communicate and influence at all levels within the organization
• Self-directed with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple accountabilities and multiple internal customers
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Inquisitive, accurate and detail oriented, with strong problem-solving skills
• Exercise sound judgment with the ability to take calculated risks and make risk/return recommendations
• Solid project management capabilities with the ability to organize and manage multiple projects simultaneously from origin through execution
• Ability to be discreet with confidential information
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule during key business deadlines
• Must be team-oriented with the ability to work on high collaboration and performance teams

Nice-to-haves

• Corporate and/or Manufacturing industry experience

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• 18% annual incentive bonus eligibility based on business and individual performance
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Dynamic and fun workplace environment