Manager, Finance

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Position Location

Farmington Hills, MI This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Currently 2 days per week on-site work are required.

Position Purpose MDT is seeking a hands-on Finance Manager to lead financial planning and analysis, forecasting, management reporting, and strategic financial support across the organization. This role will partner closely with the CFO, senior leadership, Accounting, Sales, and other functional teams to provide meaningful financial insights, improve decision-making, and support MDT’s continued growth.

The ideal candidate combines strong financial and analytical capabilities with effective business partnership and people leadership. This individual will be comfortable operating both strategically and tactically—developing financial models and recommendations while also taking ownership of the underlying analysis and execution.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning
• Develop financial models, including scenario, sensitivity, profitability, and cash-flow analysis.
• Analyze and explain financial performance and variances to budget, forecast, and prior periods.
• Identify financial trends, risks, and opportunities and translate analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Continuously improve forecasting accuracy and financial visibility.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual management and executive-level financial reporting.
• Monitor KPIs, financial performance, and key business drivers.
• Perform customer, product, margin, cost, and profitability analysis.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide leadership with meaningful and actionable financial insights.
• Maintain strong data integrity across financial systems and reporting.
• Partner with Accounting to prepare and evaluate revenue recognition under ASC 606.
• Review customer agreements, pricing proposals, and non-standard contract terms for financial and revenue implications.
• Partner with Sales, Legal, and Accounting on deal structure and contract considerations.
• Assess the impact of pricing and contract terms on revenue and margins.
• Improve FP&A processes, financial reporting, forecasting tools, and financial models.
• Leverage technology and automation to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Support continued development and optimization of financial systems, including Sage Intacct, Workday Adaptive Planning, Power BI, and other business systems.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve financial information available to leadership.
• Lead, mentor, and develop members of the Finance team.
• Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability.
• Provide ongoing coaching and feedback and support employee professional development.
• Effectively delegate while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Build strong working relationships across Finance, Accounting, and the broader organization.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and continuous-improvement-oriented team environment.
• Provide financial modeling and analysis for strategic initiatives, partnerships, and other growth opportunities.
• Support M&A evaluation, due diligence, financial modeling, and integration activities as opportunities arise.
• Complete other strategic projects and analyses as requested.
• Work should be balanced at 50% doing the work and 50% managing teams.
• Manages direct report employees.
• Responsible for oversight of one or more teams or a department.
• Less involved in day-to-day technical tasks; more focused on planning, budgeting, and people development.
• Drives longer-term initiatives, such as career path planning, hiring strategies, and cross-department collaboration.
• Holds formal authority over performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation.
• Responsible…