Finance Manager

Finance Manager

Requirements

• Minimum requirement five (5) years of experience.
• Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, or MBA (preferred).
• Experience in a Financial Analyst or Accounting role, preferred manufacturing environment experience.
• Ability to work independently and with agility on key deliverables and lead financial discussions.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills; continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong communication (written and oral) skills; ability to summarize and succinctly tell the financial story to non-financial business partners.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and internal control concepts.
• Proactive, positive ‘can do’ attitude.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership to the GMC team to help develop and achieve short range, annual and long-range plans.
• Develop strong business partnerships within the GMC business to help enable accountability and delivery of commitments.
• Learn all aspects of the GMC business, including markets, customers, products and operations.
• Develop and provide financial models for business initiatives by gathering inputs from business partners and validating key assumptions, to ensure the initiatives support business goals (revenue growth, margin expansion, investments).
• Educate business partners on financial concepts and accounting principles to facilitate improved decision making across the business.
• Lead the monthly financial review process and help drive business initiatives together with the Vice President, GMC, including analyzing and summarizing historical results and future projections; ‘tell the story’ to the GMC leadership team to help improve their understanding of the financials.
• Partner with Operations Finance to understand, analyze and evaluate gross margin drivers to improve business decisions.
• Analyze effect of changes in business conditions and communicate impact on cost structure and profitability.
• Provide the business owners with monthly financial KPI reports.
• Work directly in forecasting and reporting systems to ensure accuracy and reliability of GMC financial projections and information.
• Financial leader in the global execution of GMC’s planning & forecasting process, in adherence to corporate guidelines and processes.
• Collaborate with GMC leaders to prepare detailed budgets and forecasts, including sales, hiring plans, operating expenses, and capex.
• Support the demand/sales forecasting process and understand key assumptions in sales pipelines, sales prices, etc.
• Have a flexible work schedule to allow for occasional evening meetings with business partners located in Asia.
• Completes ad-hoc miscellaneous tasks as needed to support the overall organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a Financial Analyst or Accounting role, preferred manufacturing environment experience.
• Strong collaboration skills preferred.
• Proficient, to advanced, SAP, Excel and PowerPoint skills; Power BI a plus.