VP of Finance

Job Purpose Lead finance for the network of manufacturing plants across the organization, encompassing plant operations, supply chain, and procurement. Build best-in-class financial support for manufacturing operations, elevate the quality and speed of reporting and insights delivered to plant and enterprise leadership, and lead a large team of finance professionals embedded across plants and central operations. Work in extensive partnership with the Senior Leadership Team to drive financial rigor, operational insight, and value creation across the plant network.

Essential Functions
• Plant Finance Leadershipo Serve as the senior finance leader for all manufacturing plants, providing strategic and operational financial leadership across the networko Partner directly with the EVP of Operations and plant managers to align financial performance with operational goals and enterprise strategyo Own the financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting process for all plant operations, ensuring alignment with the AOP and forecast cycleso Drive standardization of financial processes, controls, and reporting practices across all plants to ensure consistency and comparabilityo Standardize KPIs and performance metrics across the plant network, prioritizing the levers with the greatest impact on business performance, enabling consistent measurement, benchmarking, and decision-making across siteso Lead monthly and quarterly business reviews with plant leadership, providing clear visibility into cost, productivity, and margin performance
• Supply Chain and Procurement Financeo Provide finance leadership and decision support for supply chain functions, including logistics, distribution, and inventory managemento Partner with the procurement organization to evaluate supplier contracts, input cost trends, and sourcing decisions, ensuring financial rigor is embedded in procurement strategyo Build financial models to evaluate make versus buy decisions, network optimization, and capital investment opportunities across the supply chaino Support commodity and input cost risk management, working closely with procurement and operations to quantify and mitigate exposure
• Cost Optimization and Productivityo Identify, quantify, and drive cost optimization opportunities across the manufacturing network, including labor productivity, waste reduction, freight, and overheado Partner with operations leadership to build and track productivity pipelines, ensuring savings are captured, validated, and reflected in financial resultso Lead capital planning and return on investment analysis for plant capital expenditures, ensuring disciplined prioritization of capital across the networko Champion continuous improvement initiatives, bringing a rigorous financial lens to operational efficiency programs across plants
• Reporting Enhancement and Insights Deliveryo Redesign and elevate plant-level and network-level financial reporting, moving from static, backward-looking reports to dynamic, insight-driven dashboard so Partner closely with IT, Financial Information Systems, and Finance Transformation teams to define reporting requirements and modernize reporting infrastructure, improve data quality, and reduce manual reporting efforto Develop and standardize leading indicator metrics and KPIs across the plant network, focused on the levers that most directly drive business performance, enabling plant and enterprise leadership to proactively manage performance rather than react to lagging resultso Deliver clear, actionable insights to the Senior Leadership Team and the Board, translating complex operational and financial data into strategic recommendationso Establish a consistent cadence of reporting and business reviews that…