Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

This is a remote position preferencing candidates who live within reasonable distance to Gardner, MA or York, PA. The Manager of FP&A role requires a strong manufacturing and finance background and the ability to harness this knowledge to navigate complex business issues. Willingness to dive deep into the details while keeping an eye on the bigger picture will be critical to find creative solutions and provide insights to the Company’s leadership and business partners. Working for the Director of FP&A and closely with the CFO as well as other cross-functional team members, this role will develop processes and tools to transform business data into useful information for decision making.   Processes and tools should be implemented consistently across all locations and functions to allow for individual location reporting as well as seamless consolidations.

Key Responsibilities include:

Financial Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

• Build and manage comprehensive financial models for the manufacturing environments, which will drive annual plans, rolling forecasts, and long-range plans; recommend updates to the budget and forecast and help identify ways to continually optimize our cost profile
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages, dashboards, variance explanations, and actionable insights to senior leadership
• Work with the Sales and other leaders to prepare forecasts of volume, mix, pricing, and margin trends and support SG&A visibility and accountability
• Work with Operations and Accounting on plant performance reporting, manufacturing KPIs, productivity tracking, and cost improvement initiatives
• Work with functional leaders to assist in the management of the individual department costs

Profitability, Pricing & Margin Analytics

• Help implement standard costing methodology throughout the manufacturing environment to allow accurate measurement of cost drivers as well as individual product profitability
• Own and manage the product margin profitability analysis and commentary, focused on product costing as well as shipping/distribution and warehouse costs 
• Prepare quarterly price index movement analysis
• Prepare analysis of quoting models, and commercial initiatives to improve gross margin and EBITDA

Cross-Functional Business Partnership

• Actively support operations deliverables for SIOP
• Drive financial discipline, KPI adoption, forecasting rigor, and continuous improvement in financial processes
• Support M&A due diligence and integration as needed

Systems, Tools & Process Improvement

• Enhance forecasting models, reporting tools, and dashboards (Excel/BI/ERP)
• Improve data accuracy and speed through streamlined processes and system automation
• Ensure alignment between FP&A, Accounting, Sales and Operations on financial and performance metrics

Desired Skills and Qualifications include:

• BA/BS degree Finance/Accounting, or Business
• At least 8-10 years of financial experience in a manufacturing environment with multiple sites
• Outstanding skills in both understanding and interpreting financial statements, and financial modeling skills
• Proven track record of creating robust analyses that translate into business decisions
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, interact effectively with all levels within the company
• Change agent that possesses an exceptional internal drive toward continuous improvement
• Flexible to changing work priorities and direction based on a fast-paced, ever-changing business environment
• Highly motivated and driven professional, able to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously; exceptionally strong work ethic
• Exceptional business acumen, ability to quickly learn and understand industry, product lines, competitive and customer environments
• Experience in Radius or other ERP systems
• Expert proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with BI tools a must

Work Environment:

This is a hybrid on-site/remote role. Relocation is not required. The job will require working in both professional office and manufacturing environments. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.   This role will require the use of mandatory safety equipment while working in the manufacturing environment.