.What you'll do: PRIMARY FUNCTION:This position provides financial leadership to the manufacturing location, serving as a business partner and as a change agent to drive plant continuous improvement actions and to achieve overall plant targets. This role connects finance processes with operations, providing guidance, drive actions, and financial insights to ensure operational strategies and decisions will lead to the expected results.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:Financial Analysis: Analyze financial data and performance metrics related to the operations to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement. Drives accountability for results and defining key performance metrics together with business leaders.Decision Support: Provide financial insights and analysis to support operational decision-making, such as evaluating capital deployment opportunities or new projects.Driving initiatives: Ensure productivity improvements and growth in areas such as operational excellence, continuous improvement, quality, and supply chain management.Collaborative Planning: Work closely with the operations team to develop action plans, strategies, and initiatives based on financial insights. Drive and monitor the implementation of the plans.Financial Modeling: Create financial models to assess the impact of various scenarios on operational performance.Risk Management: Identify financial risks within the operations and propose mitigation strategies.Performance Tracking: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and operational metrics to evaluate performance against targets.Cost Management: Monitor and manage operational costs to achieve efficiency and cost-reduction while maintaining quality.Inventory Management: Implement inventory control actions and initiatives to maximize operational profitability while maximizing cash.Talent Management: Build organizational capability through successful hiring, talent development, and succession planning in the business.Forecasting: Lead the main financial processes for the site, such as forecasts and profit plan.Cost Accounting: Analyze and interpret financial data related to the costs incurred by a company during its operations to provide valuable insights to management, enabling them to make informed decisions regarding cost efficiency, pricing strategies, and overall financial performance.Interim State Job Responsibilities: Lead and support the finance and plant leadership teams through finance transformation: Champion the finance culture change at the plant level, aiding the finance team to operate as business partners. In partnership with the transformation management office, review finance roles and responsibilities to determine plant level vs. centralized.Safety: Implement, promote and maintain a safe work environment by implementing a culture of accidents prevention, investigation, equipment maintenance and application of rules. Identify, control and administer risk and danger in own area
