Director, Finance Operations

Dorman was founded on the belief that people should have greater freedom to fix motor vehicles. For over 100 years, we have been driving new solutions, releasing tens of thousands of aftermarket replacement products engineered to save time and money, and increase convenience and reliability. Founded and headquartered in the United States, we are a pioneering global organization offering an always‑evolving catalog of automotive, heavy‑duty and specialty vehicle products.

Today, we have more than 3,500 employees across 29 different locations, with a family of brands that also includes Super

ATV and Dayton Parts. Reaching a revenue of $2 billion in 2024, Dorman is publicly traded under the stock ticker DORM.

Everyone who works at Dorman is called a Contributor. We need everyone, regardless of role and experience, to contribute to our success. That means everyone has a unique ability to make an impact on the business. We encourage all our Contributors to bring their authentic selves to work. The freedom to pursue new ideas, offer different perspectives, and grow in your career is fundamental to working at Dorman.

As Director, Finance Operations for Dorman, you will be a critical leader on the Dorman Operations Finance team, owning financial planning, reporting and analysis. This role will provide business support and insight to the Operations leadership team and will be responsible for the forecasting and decision support for the Operations teams. This includes multiple warehousing, distribution and manufacturing sites, in addition to supply chain and logistics functions.

The Finance Director role reports to the VP of Finance, has one direct report, and will work closely with Corporate Leadership and FP&A teams. If you enjoy working in the manufacturing / distribution space and seek the ability to grow into larger finance roles in the future, this is the opportunity for you!

This is a hybrid role in our corporate headquarters in suburban Philadelphia (Colmar, PA) with the expectation to be onsite two to three days per week.

• Support the month end closing process by reviewing and understanding variances to PY, Budget and Forecast, and effectively communicate monthly results.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support business requests to aid in decision making.
• Enhance and supplement existing reporting process leveraging Hyperion, Business Objects, Power BI, and Qlik.
• Develop and publish weekly KPI’s to the Light Duty & Heavy Duty business leaders.
• Partner with Operations leadership to establish and monitor financial and operations KPI’s and metrics within Operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, track progress and report results on key initiatives and projects in collaboration with functional leaders.
• Drive improvement in supplier-related components of working capital in areas such as defect recoveries, excess and obsolete inventory, and scrap.
• Develop quarterly forecasts, annual budgets for Dorman’s cost of sales and all operational expenses.
• Analyze and report monthly results including productivity, inflation/deflation and variance to budget/forecast/prior year.
• Ensure the accuracy of the Company’s inventories including the adequacy of physical count procedures and reliability of reported cycle count and physical inventory results.
• Provide leadership, coaching, direction and growth opportunities to your team, performing those responsibilities in accordance with the Company’s established policies.
• Support Investor Relations and other Dorman Corporate activities.
• Support the Capital Expenditure Authorization process for Light Duty & Heavy Duty Operations.
• Provide strategic guidance on how to integrate future acquisitions in financial areas such as ERP system, accounting policy adoption, inventory valuation and costing, KPI reporting, and financial close.
• Establish functional objectives for areas of responsibility.

• Experience in Manufacturing / Distribution, including Standard Costing required
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills especially Excel
• Familiarity with Hyperion and/or SAP preferred
• Experience with Power BI/Business Objects preferred
• Excellent written and…