Plant Finance Manager

Overview

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

• Be an active participant of the Bridgeton Leadership team and the financial business partner for the Bridgeton Manufacturing facility.
• Prepare, present and provide guidance on the financial performance to the Bridgeton Leadership team.
• Partner with Operations to determine, implement, track and report on cost savings initiatives.
• Develop the annual operating plan (AOP) for the Bridgeton facility.
• Complete the monthly journal entries and the accounting close process for the Bridgeton facility.
• Analyze Purchase Price Variances and Purchase Order Variance.
• Review Scrap, and various spend categories and communicate results with Bridgeton Leadership.
• Perform labor analysis and reporting.
• Responsible for the annual standard cost setting process for Bridgeton including setting Overhead rates, analyzing routes and setting Raw Material Cost.
• Perform year over year standard cost analysis for Bridgeton.
• Review, analyze and roll costs for all new products for Bridgeton as needed.
• Work with the New Product Development team to ensure accurate cost estimates for proposed new products
• Review and approve cycle count results.
• Provide detailed Inventory reporting by product line.
• Facilitate excess and obsolete review and disposals.
• Review and Monitor all Capital Expenditures to ensure projects are on budget, on time and meet financial projections of the project
• Maintain and provide EHS metrics.
• Assist and communicate with internal and external auditors.

• Role not eligible for sponsorship
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
• Experience working in a manufacturing/plant environment required
• 5 or more years’ experience in Accounting or Operations Finance required
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel required
• Knowledge of SAP is highly desired

• Requires creativity in problem solving
• Ability to multi-task effectively and efficiently
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Requires refined organizational and time management skills
• Focus and drive towards industry leadership and best practices
• High degree of integrity and work ethics

Working Conditions:

Both an office and manufacturing environment

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.