AprilAire is looking to hire a driven and energetic Operations Finance Manager to be the business partner for the Operations Leadership team.
This highly visible role combines Cost Accounting and FP&A responsibilities, ensuring accurate financial statements while also driving forecasting, budgeting, and strategic analysis. The Ops Finance Manager will be intimately involved with the manufacturing facilities, providing financial rigor, identifying cost-out opportunities, and serving as a strategic partner for operations.
Additionally, this position will provide oversight for the cycle counting process, fixed asset allocation and updating/maintaining standard costs.
Work location:
- Two day per week onsite availability in Poynette, WI with some flexiblity to schedule.
- One day per week at our Madison, WI manufacturing facility.
- Ownership of plant financial reporting, business partner to the Operations Leadership team and liaison between operations and other departments within AprilAire
- Complete month-end cost of goods sold entries; review system provided data for accuracy and completeness.
- Review inventory purchase transactions for the month identifying actual costs vs standard (e.g., purchase price variances) and separating the variances by main category.
- Responsibility for the inventory accuracy process, cycle counting, inventory reconciliation and including up to managing the inventory team.
- Complete summaries of cost of goods sold by product line
- Reconcile month-end inventory balances between system provided data and general ledger.
- Proactively identify cost out opportunities and drive for productivity to offset inflation
- Complete product line income statements and margin reports
- Review large variances throughout month and lead to corrective action solutions
- Review general ledger transactions weekly and investigate unusual transactions
- Complete line-item comparison of actual costs to budget & current forecast.
- Provide plants with daily labor reports
- Provide plants with weekly overhead spending
- Prepare and present monthly operations reviews with variance understanding and corrective action recommendations
- Complete periodic or ad-hoc cost analysis.
- Complete the annual budget and periodic forecast updates.
- Update standard inventory costs & product pricing in the system.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, MBA and/or CPA a plus
- 5+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing environment
- Management and leadership experience a plus
- Understanding of cost accounting standards around BOM’s, standard costing, reserves and applying accounting principles, theories and concepts to financial transactions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work with global partners
- Ability to motivate and lead by example thus showing the ability to organize, support and clearly communicate with accounting and non-accounting professionals
- Mapics experience preferred, but not required.