Finance Manager

About the Role

The Finance Manager is a strategic finance leader responsible for oversight and direction across all core accounting and financial functions, including general accounting, tax, payroll, fleet financial management, inventory procurement, and financial planning & analysis (FP&A). Reporting to the Director of Finance, this leader builds scalable financial infrastructure, strengthens internal controls, and develops talent within the department.

This role operates as a thought partner to the Director of Finance and senior leadership, translating financial data into forward-looking insights, enabling disciplined growth, and ensuring that processes and controls scale with the business.

Plunkett’s is a solid, family-owned business established in 1915 – celebrating over 100 years of continued growth! Our service area covers 24 states, with headquarters in Fridley, Minnesota. Our 800+ employees receive competitive wages and rewards, fantastic benefits, a company-sponsored retirement program, continuous training, and career development. If you are a high-performing, creative content-generating machine and love diving into the story that the data can tell us, this position could be for you!

• Partner with the Director of Finance to shape financial strategy aligned to growth and margin goals.
• Design and implement scalable processes, systems, and internal controls to support multi-state expansion and acquisitions.
• Provide forward-looking insights (scenario modeling, risk assessments, sensitivity analyses) to inform decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement across the accounting, payroll, inventory/procurement, and FP&A functions.

• Provide leadership, direction, and accountability to the AP, Fleet, Accounting and broader finance team.
• Set clear performance expectations, coach leaders, and build bench strength within the function.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of financial statements and management reporting.
• Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close, account reconciliations, and GL governance.
• Maintain and enhance internal controls (GAAP compliance, segregation of duties, approval workflows, audit readiness).
• Oversee cash management activities and support working capital optimization (AR/AP cadence, DSO/DPO).

• Provide strategic oversight of all local taxes including sales & use tax as well as other indirect tax compliance in a multi-state environment.
• Direct and review coordination with external income tax providers.
• Monitor regulatory developments and ensure financial processes reflect changing requirements.

• Oversee complex, commissioned based, multi-state payroll processes to ensure accuracy, compliance, and appropriate controls.
• Develop reporting that tracks key payroll variables (headcount, overtime, commissions, benefits, PTO, turnover) to explain drivers of workforce cost changes.

• Provide financial oversight of fleet asset management, including acquisition/disposition, lease vs. buy analysis, depreciation policy, utilization, and cost optimization.
• Build analytics for total cost of ownership and partner with Operations to reduce unit costs.

• Build and lead the organization’s first data-driven inventory and procurement function, with a multi-year roadmap for systems, processes, and reporting.
• Implement and govern the inventory system to ensure accurate cost tracking, valuation (e.g., standard/weighted average), forecasting, and internal controls.
• Develop analytics and…