Manager, Finance

Fortune Brands Innovations (NYSE: FBIN) is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company with a portfolio of trusted brands, including Moen, House of Rohl, Therma-Tru, Larson, Master Lock, Yale residential, and Sentry Safe.

We are building a company that is determined to win, and we are clear about how: strong brands, great people, and disciplined execution.

You’ll join a team that puts customers first, keeps its commitments, and cuts through complexity to deliver meaningful results.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to make an impact and help shape what’s next for our iconic brands, we’d love to meet you.

The Finance Manager is the senior finance leader at the plant and the primary finance partner to the Plant Manager and operations leadership. Reporting to the Sr. Manager Finance, Operations, this role owns the financial performance of the plant. That includes building the annual budget and monthly forecasts, explaining results and variances, and turning operational data into actions that reduce cost and improve productivity.

The role leads daily, weekly and monthly performance reporting on scrap, labor efficiency, spending and continuous improvement savings, and ensures the site has strong controls in partnership with accounting team.

What you will be doing

• Lead reporting and financial analysis of manufacturing expenses, providing actionable insights to support cost control, operational efficiency, and profitability objectives.
• Develop, monitor, and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure operational and financial performance, enabling data-driven decision making, and drive corrective actions with plant leadership.
• Create and develop the annual plant budgets and monthly forecasts
• Evaluate and communicate periodic actual plant results compared to budgets, forecasts and prior periods. With a focus primarily on variance reporting, and productivity metrics
• Lead standard plant cost and overhead development, including plant cost structure
• Manage the monthly and Y/E financial closing process by reviewing and analyzing key plant activity, costs, performance vs. forecast/operating plan.
• Partner with the Inventory team to assess financial impacts related to inventory management, including obsolete and excess inventory analysis, and drive mitigation efforts with Product Management, Manufacturing, and cross-functional Therma-Tru teams.
• Lead and develop Financial Analysts while partnering with plant leadership to reconcile and analyze daily production metrics, including scrap, labor efficiency, and operational performance drivers.
• Coordinate with the Outdoors team in Therma Tru to ensure proper financial reporting, SOX controls, and audit support within the manufacturing site.
• Partner with Operations to identify, evaluate, and develop continuous improvement initiatives, conducting monthly cost walks to quantify operational impacts and communicate financial results through the P&L.
• Perform ad hoc tasks, including special projects, analysis, and communication as needed to support operations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field required
• 5+ years of progressive finance experience within manufacturing, plant, or cost accounting.
• Team supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Continuously seeks opportunities to enhance knowledge and processes
• Experience supporting and driving lean projects.
• Hands-on experience with standard costing, including building labor and overhead rates, running or supporting a cost roll, and analyzing manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, PPV)
• Working knowledge of inventory accounting, including physical counts, cycle…