Manager, Finance Global Operations

Rapiscan, an OSI Systems Company is seeking a Manager, Finance Global Operations, based out of Billerica, MA.

Rapiscan empowers those who safeguard our world with the technologies, services, and expertise needed to detect threats, secure commerce, and protect communities. An industry leader in X-ray inspection, radiation and trace detection, metal detection, and optical inspection solutions, Rapiscan has over 100,000 scanning systems installed around the world to assist customs agencies, border security, aviation authorities, law enforcement, military organizations, and security professionals in combatting terrorism, smuggling, and trade fraud.

The Manager, Finance Global Operations will oversee the annual budgeting process, monthly forecasting, headcount planning, operating expense management, and financial analysis supporting operational decision-making. In addition, this role will provide leadership and oversight of key cost accounting processes and activities across the global organization, driving consistency in labor and overhead application methodologies, inventory accounting practices, excess and obsolete reserve analysis, global inventory management, cycle count programs, and operational financial controls.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong combination of FP&A, manufacturing finance, and cost accounting expertise and serve as a trusted advisor to operations leadership while helping drive financial discipline, process standardization, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across Rapiscan's global operations footprint.

• Serve as the lead finance business partner to the EVP of Global Operations and the global operations leadership team.
• Manage Americas Sr. Cost Accountant with dotted line reporting from international Cost Accounting personnel.
• Lead the annual budgeting process for all global operations functions.
• Manage monthly forecasting processes, including operating expenses, labor costs, inventory, headcount requirements, and key operational spending categories.
• Manage monthly financial close cost accounting activities
• Analyze monthly financial performance including labor/headcount, temporary labor, and other operating expenses against budget and forecast.
• Prepare executive-level reporting packages, presentations, and financial analyses for operations and finance leadership including explanations of variances, business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Perform financial and operational analyses supporting manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing, procurement, logistics, quality, and inventory management functions.
• Establish overhead rates for inventory and labor and update as appropriate.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, labor utilization, overhead absorption rates, inventory trends, and supply chain costs.
• Lead global efforts to establish consistency and best practices in operational finance and cost accounting processes across all manufacturing locations.
• Participate in all financial and internal control compliance audits to ensure a strong SOX-compliant control environment.
• Prepares documentation for external auditors as it pertains to price testing of inventory costs.
• Partner with site finance and operations leadership to ensure consistent application of cost accounting methodologies including labor and manufacturing overhead rates and absorption, global excess and obsolescence and ERP processes.
• Support strategic initiatives, footprint optimization projects, productivity programs, restructuring activities, and operational improvement efforts.
• Establish consistent reporting and performance metrics across global manufacturing and operational locations.
• Manage, evaluate and develop team of employees to meet functional deliverables and…