Finance Director – Manufacturing FP&A & Business Operations

York, United States

Join a global industrial technology organization advancing sustainable temperature-control solutions across transportation, manufacturing, and specialized commercial markets. This opportunity supports a rapidly expanding business that manufactures and services advanced refrigeration equipment used to protect temperature-sensitive products worldwide.

Following its integration into a larger global organization, the business is entering an important stage of transformation and accelerated growth. Its leadership team is focused on strengthening operational performance, expanding market opportunities, improving financial visibility, and creating scalable processes to support its long-term strategy.

The Finance Director will serve as a key member of the business leadership team, guiding financial decisions across manufacturing, commercial operations, investments, and strategic planning. This is an opportunity for an entrepreneurial, commercially minded finance leader to make a measurable impact on a growing business.

• Hybrid schedule:
  Monday through Thursday onsite in York, PA, with flexibility on Fridays.
• Strategic leadership:
  Serve as a financial partner to the business leadership team, influencing decisions that directly affect growth and profitability.
• High-growth environment:
  Support substantial business expansion, operational transformation, and investment planning.
• People leadership:
  Lead finance and ERP-related resources while developing the team's analytical capabilities and financial expertise.
• Executive exposure:
  Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, sales, product management, and global finance leadership.
• Professional development:
  Educational programs, tuition assistance, training opportunities, and career development resources.
• Comprehensive benefits:
  Health and wellness programs, retirement benefits, paid leave, and family-building support.

• Act as the lead financial business partner for a growing manufacturing and commercial business, providing financial insight to guide strategic and operational decisions.
• Strengthen product-line profitability reporting, financial performance dashboards, and management visibility into the drivers of business results.
• Improve financial analysis of labor variances, material costs, manufacturing absorption, inventory, purchasing, and operational efficiency.
• Lead annual operating plans, long-range financial planning, quarterly forecasts, and financial performance reviews.
• Translate complex financial information into practical business recommendations that manufacturing, engineering, sales, and other functional leaders can act upon.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate growth initiatives, capital investments, operational expansion, and resource allocation using ROI, ROIC, CROIC, and scenario modeling.
• Guide financial planning and analysis resources, ensuring forecasts, reporting, and performance discussions support sound decisions.
• Partner with ERP specialists to strengthen financial data structures, reporting capabilities, cost visibility, and system-driven analysis.
• Oversee financial governance, accounting practices, internal controls, and compliance with established reporting standards.
• Support the evolution of financial and operational processes as the business scales within a global corporate structure.
• Drive change management initiatives by influencing cross-functional stakeholders, creating accountability, and establishing performance-oriented operating practices.
• Develop finance team capabilities through coaching, process improvements, and continuous professional development.
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