Site Finance Manager

Our client,
Selig Group, is a leading global provider of innovative sealing and venting packaging solutions for food and beverages, healthcare, personal care, chemical and industrial, and wine and spirits markets. The company’s products are designed to serve customers’ needs for ensuring freshness, providing packaging integrity, extending shelf life, providing tamper evidence, expanding in e-commerce, and protecting brand identity. Selig is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA with manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, and Asia and distribution locations worldwide.

This is a Hybrid Opportunity based out of the Schaumburg office-three days onsite and two days remote.

The Company fosters a collaborative and high-performance culture where safety, quality, and continuous improvement are at the core of its customer first approach. Employees are encouraged to take ownership of their work, contribute to strategic goals, and develop their skills in a dynamic and engaging environment. The organization values teamwork, integrity, and innovation, ensuring long‑term success and sustainable growth.

Selig is owned by interests of the Crown family and is supported by CC Industries, the Chicago‑based, consulting and management company for the Crown family’s portfolio of operating companies. Selig is well‑positioned for continued growth and profitability this year and beyond.

Selig seeks a strategic finance manager for its Illinois manufacturing site. This role serves as a strategic financial partner to site‑level operations leaders, providing critical insight, analysis, and recommendations necessary to drive performance, improve efficiency, and support strategic initiatives.

This role focuses on cost accounting, production variance analysis, strategic and capital projects, and support for site leadership decision‑making. The successful candidate will be able to thrive in a customer‑centric, fast‑paced, collaborative and team‑oriented culture. The ideal candidate is a hands‑on, detail‑oriented professional who can contribute to the success of the Forrest site while maintaining strong communication and coordination with Selig’s global team.

• Based in Selig’s Schaumburg, Illinois office with 20-40% travel to Forrest, Illinois manufacturing operation
• Direct Reporting Line: VP, Global Controller
• Indirect Dotted Line:
  Director of Operations, Forrest (Site Leader)
• One direct report (located in Forrest)

• Participate as a member of the site leadership team, including regular review of site performance, variances and corrective actions
• Supervise and support cost accounting activities, including standard costs development and variance analysis, inventory analysis, scrap analysis, and fixed asset reporting
• Lead site‑level budgeting and forecasting, including the standard cost development and departmental expense budgets
• Lead analysis of site operating performance through weekly and monthly reviews of variances, production statistics, cost, inventory and other key performance indicators
• Lead and support capital projects, including financial analysis in support of the project, approval requests and tracking of project costs and performance
• Support, develop and refine best practices in connection with a global ERP implementation
• Support year‑end audit activities related to areas above, including coordinating physical inventory with operations, reviewing controls, and supporting year end requests
• Ensure compliance with tariff regulations on international shipments
• Support insurance and risk management activities
• Perform other duties, including ad‑hoc special projects and financial analysis, as required

• Champion and promote a strong safety culture
• Demonstrate the highest level of ethical and moral standards
• Strong teamwork, communication and project management skills across a global business
• Hands‑on local site leader who can connect the company’s strategy to financial performance
• Desire to rapidly learn Selig’s business and contribute to the company’s success
• Goal and results oriented, with high integrity and accountability
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