Director of Manufacturing Finance

This role owns the finalization, validation, and decision-readiness of manufacturing financial results prior to CFO and executive review. You will ensure consistent, actionable, decision-grade reporting across all facilities; own the integrity of the manufacturing forecast; and drive alignment between sales, production, and financial expectations, resolving gaps across functions and locations as needed.

This is a key leadership role that reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and requires deep manufacturing finance expertise, executive-level judgment, strong systems and process leadership, and the ability to drive results across multiple sites.

• Own the integrity, timeliness, and finalization of financial reporting across all manufacturing plants, ensuring consolidated results are complete, accurate, and decision-ready for executive review
• Provide expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory valuation, and variance analysis
• Partner with plant leadership to analyze operational performance and identify cost drivers, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
• Ensure accurate tracking and reporting of material, labor, and overhead costs
• Support analysis of capital investments, equipment utilization, and operational efficiency
• Own the integrity of the manufacturing financial forecast by aligning sales forecasts, production plans, and financial assumptions across functions
• Ensure consistency between demand planning, production activity, capacity assumptions, and financial performance expectations across locations
• Lead development of integrated manufacturing forecasts that reflect operational realities, business objectives, and executive planning needs
• Lead efforts to optimize ERP financial modules and reporting capabilities to improve data accuracy, visibility, and efficiency
• Ensure financial data integrity across systems, including validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution
• Own the end-to-end monthly close discipline across all plants, including clear standards for what constitutes a complete close
• Develop and enforce standardized reporting, dashboards, and KPIs that deliver consistent, decision-grade outputs for plant and executive reviews
• Establish and monitor strong internal controls across plant financial processes
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal financial policies
• Translate financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for non-financial leaders
• Build strong working relationships with plant managers and cross-functional leaders while holding teams accountable to enterprise financial standards and reporting expectations

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Progressive leadership experience in finance or accounting within manufacturing environments, with the seniority to operate beyond a traditional single-site plant finance role
• Demonstrated expertise in cost accounting, inventory management, and plant financial operations
• Experience operating across multiple sites or business units with accountability for financial results, standardization, and consolidation
• Strong ERP, systems, and process leadership capability, including improving reporting tools, controls, and end-to-end financial workflows
• Proven ability to identify and resolve data integrity and process issues
• Experience improving financial close processes and reporting timelines