Senior Finance Manager

We are recruiting a Senior Finance Manager for a growing Manufacturing company in the RTP  this role, you will partner across Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations. This role will own product cost visibility, gross margin analysis, inventory performance, and operational financial planning. The ideal candidate brings a strong manufacturing cost accounting foundation

• Lead financial oversight of product costs, inventory valuation, and gross margin performance across global operations.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations leadership to improve cost transparency and drive informed decision-making.
• Analyze standard costs, manufacturing variances, inventory movements, and overhead allocations to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for product costs, inventory, and operational spending.
• Partner with regional finance and operations teams to ensure consistency in costing methodologies, reporting, and financial controls.
• Support new product introductions, sourcing initiatives, and operational projects through cost analysis and financial modeling.
• Oversee month-end close activities related to inventory, cost of sales, reserves, accruals, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Enhance reporting, dashboards, and analytics to improve visibility into operational and financial performance.
• Support audit, compliance, and process improvement initiatives while maintaining strong governance around costing practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• Strong manufacturing cost accounting background, including standard costing, inventory accounting, BOMs, transfer pricing concepts, and variance analysis.
• Progressive finance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally including experience as a Plant Controller, Manufacturing Controller, Cost Accounting Manager, or Operations Finance leader.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Supply Chain and Operations stakeholders across multi-site or global organizations.

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.

• California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
• Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
• Residents of all other…