Operations Finance Senior Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities for Operations Finance.
• Oversee monthly and quarterly financial reporting, including variance analysis, trend analysis, executive-level commentary, and business performance insights.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Operations stakeholders, helping translate business drivers, cost trends, risks, and opportunities into actionable financial recommendations.
• Manage expense planning, cost center analysis, headcount tracking, capital planning, and other key operational finance activities.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior periods, identifying key variances, explaining business drivers, and recommending corrective actions where appropriate.
• Lead the preparation of management presentations, financial summaries, business reviews, and executive decision-support materials.
• Oversee month-end and quarter-end close activities, including accrual review, journal entry support, account reconciliations, and financial validation.
• Ensure financial discipline and compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, and corporate finance requirements.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, and other business partners to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Identify, lead, and implement opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting consistency, forecast accuracy, and overall finance effectiveness.
• Lead ad hoc financial analysis, scenario modeling, investment evaluation, and business case development for operational initiatives.
• Leverage financial systems and reporting tools, such as SAP, Hyperion, Anaplan, Excel, Smartsheet, S/4HANA, and other standard finance platforms, to drive accurate analysis and reporting.
• Communicate financial results, risks, opportunities, and recommendations clearly to senior finance leaders and business partners.
• Provide coaching, guidance, and review support to finance team members, helping build analytical capability and ensure high-quality deliverables.

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