Head, Operations Finance

The Operations Finance [Head] is the financial leader responsible for all costing, controlling, reporting, costing and analytical disciplines across the Rx laboratory and distribution center (DC) network. This role establishes and governs standard costs, ensures accurate cost recovery, accounting entries, and inventory valuation, leads operational variance analytics, and partners closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Planning leaders to drive performance and accountability.

This position is central to the development of a robust and repeatable operational finance framework—linking production drivers, capacity, labor, throughput, inventory behavior, and cost impacts into clear financial insights. The [Head] will also play a key role in supporting the transition of the network into a fully standardized costing and controlling model.

• Own the standard costing framework across Rx labs and DCs, ensuring accurate labor routings, machine standards, overhead rates, and material costs.
• Lead annual cost roll activities, including development, documentation, and execution of accounting flows associated with standard costing.
• Maintain strong alignment with purchasing, operations, engineering, and supply chain to confirm cost assumptions reflect actual processes and operational realities.
• Ensure accurate setup and application of standard costs in both flow and batch manufacturing environments.

• Oversee all cost accounting processes supporting Rx labs and DC operations, including inventory valuation, cost of goods flows, overhead absorption, and cost recovery entries.
• Manage monthly cost recovery and allocation entries (labor absorption, overhead recovery, freight allocations, intercompany flows, etc.) as well as all monthly cost and location reporting to the local, regional and global levels.
• Lead month-end and year-end close for operational cost accounting, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
• Maintain cost-related account reconciliations and respond to audit inquiries; ensure compliance with internal controls and inventory policies.

• Deliver clear, actionable variance analysis (PPV, labor efficiency, material usage, yield, scrap, throughput gaps, mix, and overhead variances).
• Identify root causes, facilitate cross-functional problem-solving, and monitor execution of corrective action plans.
• Build and manage operational dashboards and KPIs that tie operational metrics directly to financial performance.
• Provide scenario modeling and operational sensitivities to support staffing models, automation, capital planning, workflow design, capacity expansion, and network optimization.

• Lead operational cost components of the Annual Operating Plan and Quarterly Forecasts, ensuring alignment between standards, throughput assumptions, and operational performance.
• Partner with FP&A to enhance management reporting, operational KPIs, and financial narratives that drive better decision-making.
• Evaluate cost and financial implications of capital projects, engineering changes, new products, workflow redesigns, and investment proposals.

• Serve as the primary finance business partner to Operations leadership across Rx labs and DCs.
• Work closely with production planning, supply chain, warehousing, engineering, procurement, accounting teams and IT to understand cost drivers, operational constraints, and improvement opportunities.
• Work in conjunction with global supply chain and Rx finance teams to ensure alignment in costing structures, expense classification, and cost accounting policies.
• Recognize weaknesses in operational processes and partner with business leaders to address root causes and implement sustainable improvements.

• Ensure ERP/MRP costing structures accurately reflect operational workflows; partner with IT to maintain proper integration and data integrity.
• Strengthen inventory controls, reconciliation processes, and the accuracy of how operational…