Chobani

Director of Finance – Plant

Chobani

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Norton Shores • Missouri • Pennsylvania • United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Compile and analyze financial closing process, summarizing financial results with insights for business units and leadership.
  • Prepare financial rolling forecast for COGS, calling out any risks and opportunities vs. plan.
  • Manage monthly inventory reserve, reconciliation, and reporting process.
  • Prepare month-end entries encompassing labor/overhead variances, inventory adjustments, manufacturing/PO variances, and machine-related entries.
  • Collaborate with supply chain teams to implement cost-saving initiatives, drive accountability, and track progress against goals.
  • Provide visibility to manufacturing, procurement, and logistics, focusing on continuous improvement and business performance/KPIs of operational drivers.
  • Play a key role in supply planning as part of the monthly integrated business planning process and COGS financials.
  • Partner with procurement to implement material price tracking and forecasting process.
  • Support new product innovation initiatives, and margin analysis, and collaborate with data teams.
  • Own COGS Annual Operating Plan and monthly Forecasting process, including modeling for raw materials, WIP and Finished Goods working with the supply chain on BOM inputs.
  • Develop and perform and critique economic evaluation justifications for supply chain and plant capital expenditures.
  • Own and revamp the overall obsolescence program focusing on analytics and reducing waste.
  • Partner with operations to layout inventory KPIs and develop and track reduction initiatives.
  • Revamp and propose enhancements to the current margin tracking process.
  • Deliver critical cash flow guidance for executive leadership, enabling rebalancing of scarce, critical resources.
  • Evaluate returns on investment for operations capital investments, optimizing cash company wide.
  • Manage all aspects of budgeting, tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting of supply chain capital spending.
  • Supervise, coach, develop and prioritize the workflow for Senior Financial Analyst.
  • Compare financial results to planned or forecasted results and recommend future actions.
  • Analyze the ongoing profitability of all new businesses and/or programs.
  • Partner with Operations and demand management to forecast inventory positions.
  • Provide Senior leadership with changes in working capital and CAPEX spend
  • Enhance and lead control environment relating to SOX compliance in capital space while partnering with general accounting.
  • Lead and provide insight into development of capital routing process.
  • Prepare insights for monthly leadership reporting.
  • Work with business partners to ensure that CAPEX project forecasts match what we capitalize.
  • Drive global process automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Monitor and report on the activity in the CIP (construction in progress) account.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field from an accredited institution
  • 6-8 years’ experience in Private Equity, supply chain finance, accounting, or plant manufacturing finance
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of general accounting principles and cost accounting in areas of Factory costing, Contract Manufacturing, Logistics, Inventory and Procurement
  • Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
  • Experience managing CAPEX projects including Capital allocation and target setting
  • Previous cross-functional leadership experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with established financial acumen and forecasting ability
  • Advanced knowledge of SAP, Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels using detailed written reports and narrative.
  • High work capacity, dependable, results oriented and strong sense of urgency
  • Excellent organizational skills, with precise attention to detail
  • Demonstrated sound work ethic, high degree of personal integrity, honesty and moral character
  • Willingness to travel up to 30%
Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision coverage
  • disability insurance
  • health savings account
  • flexible spending accounts
  • tuition reimbursement
  • 401k match of 100% on up to 5% of eligible pay
  • fertility and childcare assistance
  • 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay after six months of continuous employment
  • employee assistance program
  • fitness discounts
  • wellness reimbursement
  • on-site gym access (certain locations)
  • monthly wellness newsletter
  • 120 hours of paid time off
  • 11 holidays
  • paid volunteer time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysisforecastingcost accountingbudgetinginventory managementCAPEX project managementeconomic evaluationmargin analysissupply chain financedata analysis
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunication skillsleadershiporganizational skillsattention to detailresults orienteddependabilityintegritycollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree in BusinessBachelor’s Degree in FinanceBachelor’s Degree in Accounting