Finance Operations Manager

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company whose employees are passionate about providing life-saving solutions to our customers through a collaborative and high-impact work environment.  Our environment reflects a culture of growth, leadership, and innovation in which our employees can directly impact the world by doing work that truly matters.

The Sr Operations Finance Manager reports to the Director of Finance.  This role serves as the key Financial business partner to the Site(s) and/or Platform Operations lead(s) while interfacing with FP&A, Cost Accounting, and Commercial.  This position may be responsible for multiple site locations and/or Product lines (Platforms) and will travel as necessary to support the non-home site(s).  The position is responsible for delivering insightful financial guidance to operations, conduct budgeting & forecasting, provide value-added business analysis, and identifying and analyzing continuous improvement opportunities to achieve P&L and Balance Sheet targets for the site(s).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide Overall financial leadership to multi-site locations to deliver Operational and Financial results.

• Provide counsel to business leaders to drive and optimize revenue growth, profitability, inventory, cash, and capital investment while identifying Risks and Opportunities

• Provide business decision support, guidance, and oversight of site financial planning, analysis, and internal controls

• Strategic business partner to the site VP of Operations & the entire plant staff and collaborate to meet P&L targets.

• Perform detailed budgeting, forecasting, and business development support

• Ensure predictability of financial results by driving effective AOP and monthly forecasting processes resulting in accurate estimates of the sites Revenue, COGS, headcount, and Profit

• Provide local support of PRR / PSR initiatives and analysis of projects along with life cycle reviews

• Provide local support on capital / CAR support, development, and analysis

• Establish, maintain, and enforce proper internal control policies and procedures for their assigned sites

• Review Operating results, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve overall operational and financial performance

• Provide a reconciliation of the plant’s operational performance and the financial performance & develop bridges accordingly

• Work closely with manufacturing operations and Cost Accounting to ensure accuracy of material, labor, and overhead cost allocated to jobs

• Participate in the month-end close process, including proposing and analyzing journal entries and analysis of various operating reports, coordinating with Cost Accounting on journal entry creation to address corrections to the reported results, and preparing flash reports and walks

• Prepare monthly Trend review information and support, partnering with Operations leaders

• Provide insight on optimizing inventory performance and Days-On-Hand/Turns, while ensuring accuracy of inventory valuation and influencing appropriate disposition of reserves at assigned sites

• Support Cost Accounting in the annual process for setting standard cost

• Provide analysis and support Cost Accounting as they roll standard cost for new products including review of bill of materials and method of manufacturing

• Weekly Reporting and analysis against Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) 

• Analyze product profitability

• Lead significant focus on site level continuous improvement ideation, measurement, and reporting.

• Work closely with operations to implement and achieve lean initiatives

• Support site leadership in day to day activities

• Prepare ad-hoc financial analysis to support senior management decisions

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance 10 + years of finance or accounting experience (5 years cost accounting) with at least 3 years in manufacturing environment

• MBA, CPA, CPIM, or CIRM a plus

• Experience with Lean Accounting a plus

• Analytical and data driven

• Strong Excel skills and experience with ERP systems such as Epicor, JD Edwards, or SAP

• Effective verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate with cross-functional business partners

Confluent Medical Technologies is dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

We regret that we are unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.

Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.