Plant Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities: Lead the plant month-end close process, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and variance analysis, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and compliant with company policies and accounting standards. Drive the plant’s annual budget and rolling forecast processes, covering labor, materials, overhead, production volumes, capital expenditures, and operating expenses. Own and continuously refine the standard costing model — including bills of materials, labor and overhead rates, purchase price variances, material usage, yield, scrap, and manufacturing variances. Transform financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights for plant leadership, identifying performance trends, risks, root causes, and improvement opportunities. Serve as a strategic finance partner to Operations, supporting initiatives around labor utilization, conversion cost reduction, throughput improvement, yield optimization, and waste elimination. Manage all aspects of inventory accounting — raw materials, packaging, WIP, finished goods — including cycle counts, physical inventories, reserve analysis, adjustments, and accuracy monitoring. Design and maintain a strong internal control environment across plant financial processes, inventory, purchasing, capital spending, and other areas of financial exposure. Provide financial support for capital investment decisions, including ROI and payback modeling, project cost tracking, and post-investment benefit validation. Develop and deliver plant management reporting and KPIs — including cost per unit, labor efficiency, material usage, overhead absorption, and spending performance — with clear commentary for leadership. Collaborate with Procurement and Supply Chain on cost analysis related to commodities, ingredients, packaging, freight, and supplier decisions, and communicate the financial implications of sourcing changes. Support new product launches, customer and product profitability analysis, make-vs-buy decisions, and other ad hoc business cases as they arise. Coordinate audit readiness across plant finance, ensuring controls, documentation, and reconciliations are prepared for both internal and external review. Uphold segregation of duties and compliance with corporate financial policies, procedures, and approval authority frameworks. Build financial literacy and capability within the plant — coaching operational leaders on financial concepts and supervising plant accounting staff as applicable. Actively contribute to the plant leadership team, including participation in continuous improvement, Lean, and cost-reduction initiatives. Apply Today!