Finance Business Partner; Manufacturing Operations

Air Born is seeking a dynamic, proactive, Finance Business Partner to support our manufacturing sites. This role will report to our Director of Finance Operations and serve a critical role by providing timely, accurate financial reporting, insightful analysis, and data-driven recommendations for our plant operational teams. The role requires the ability to work independently and take initiative. You will partner with plant operations personnel, supply chain, and division finance team members, providing proactive insights about operational performance.

• Assist with the plants’ monthly closing cycle by performing various month‑end reviews and analyses, ensuring financial information is recorded appropriately, and providing financial commentary related to plant performance.
• Support the timely preparation of periodic and ad‑hoc management reporting for various stakeholders, including plant directors and division management.
• Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision‑making.
• Perform variance analysis around labor, materials, and overhead, identifying trends and recommending areas for improvement.

• Engage with Operations developing strong relationships to better understand and anticipate needs; provide analytical and financial guidance in support of plant operational improvement plans.
• Review and analyze manufacturing site and product line profitability, partnering with operations to understand drivers of performance and improvement actions.
• Analyze investment projects and growth opportunities to drive the best uses of capital; develop and present data‑driven insights to help the business make more informed decisions.
• Analyze operational variances working to identify underlying business issues; provide input to improve performance and drive better decision‑making.
• Knowledge share around KPI performance, providing input to drive better decision‑making.
• Monitor inventory levels, working with operations to provide data‑driven insight on optimizing balances and minimizing obsolescence risk.
• Continuously look to identify, challenge, recommend, and support process improvements, standardization, automation, and optimization.
• Provide continuous finance training (e.g., financial metrics and concepts, decision‑making framework) to the plant operations teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a Business related field.
• 4 years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, or financial analysis.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organizational skills to anticipate, plan, organize, and self‑monitor workload.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating the ability to express ideas and exchange information clearly and concisely across functions and levels within the organization.
• FP&A background with strong knowledge of cost accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.

• Finance business partner mindset:
  Consistently creates insightful, high‑quality work product; is accountable, organized, resourceful and responsive.
• Strong customer focus with analytical, financial, and economic thinking skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and a passion for discovery that leads to new insights and ways of doing things.
• Proficiency in financial ERP systems (Glovia, SAP, One Stream, or other large ERP systems).
• Advanced MS Excel capability (e.g., Pivot Tables, V & H Lookups, creating charts and tables, data modeling, financial returns, forecasting, graphs, charts, macros).
• Familiarity with business / data analysis and data visualization tools (e.g., Python, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL).
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment, embrace and lead change, and seek to improve processes.

At ADS Finance, every team member is viewed as an owner and entrepreneur, taking initiative and responsibility for the success of the locations and businesses they support. We foster a culture where priorities are guided by value creation, and continuous coaching is provided to enhance capabilities and…