Senior Manager Supply Chain Finance

Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

Are you ready to level up your career?

At Light & Wonder, we are committed to making the best games, platforms and systems in the world. We are looking for smart, passionate and creative people to join our team and help us transform the gaming world.  We are a global, industry-leading gaming technology company that embraces challenge, fosters an inclusive culture, values integrity, innovation and winning, and is committed to developing and supporting its people. 

Whether you are a member of our award-winning game studios, our industry leading systems group, product management, manufacturing group, services or any of our other amazing Gaming teams, you will be creating compelling games played around the world. We are dedicated to being the industry’s only COMPLETE global solutions provider with products that will enhance the entire gaming operation, both on the casino floor and behind the scenes.

If you are ready to play…Come join us and let’s make games!

Position Summary:

Key business partner for the Operations business responsible for the oversight of Cost of Goods Sold-related Operations spend.  Perform analyses to enable the business to make informed business decisions and identify and drive efficiencies.

Forecast labor and overhead absorption vs. actual labor and overhead for manufacturing, based upon production history and forecast. Includes new and refurb EGM’s, new and refurb Tables and Utilities and Systems.
 

• Forecasting for cost/inventory, standard cost-related items
• Analyze refurbished game costs to determine financial return on investment
• Obsolescence/Scrap/Physical + Cycle Count Variance
• Partner with Sourcing to provide Purchase Price Variance (PPV) forecasts and analyze actuals
• Write down/up of inventory based on standard cost changes
• Work in process/manufacturing variances
• Expedited Freight
• Cross-functional business partner on rework charges for Raw Materials, WIP, etc.  Support the business in identifying risk and opportunities.                  
• Vetting of Procurement’s cost per platform forecast versus production actuals. Explaining cost variances.  Adjust cost per platform forecast when average BOM varies to actual production or when favorable vendor pricing is not achieved.
• Oracle improvement IT/Cost Accounting projects Production Review. 
• Ensure management oversight of production review and reporting that ensures costs per platform are accurate

• Labor + Overhead burden is calculating properly per serial relative to standard build times
• Direct materials cost is within expectation of forecasted costs per unit based upon expected standard cost changes
• Annual Standard Cost Changes on Raw Materials
• Ensure alignment with Procurement’s expected cost per unit   
• Lead project to change standard cost changes from monthly back to quarterly to minimize the effort involved with monthly standard cost changes

Raw Materials Obsolescence Review:

• Monthly review with Inventory Planning
• Quarterly review with Shared Services Accounting – Global Close & Controls team
• Obsolescence Reviews for Used Inventory 

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor degree in related field.

Years of Related Experience

5 to 8 years of relevant experience required
Experience in Supply Chain finance experience is preferred

Preferred Traits, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional business partners including manufacturing, demand/supply planning, sourcing, commercial finance, purchasing, etc.
• Experience presenting to Executive Stakeholders
• Knowledge of ERP and financial reporting systems (e.g. Hyperion)
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills as well as the ability to manage large data sets.
• Ability to maintain a strategic view while operating at a level of fine detail; correlate portfolio priorities and strategy to daily operations and decision making within the supply chain environment.
• Operate with a high degree of connectedness, transparency, and clarity to ensure common understanding of requirements, issues, and actions; listen to stakeholders and distill information into pertinent and actionable content.
• Ability to adapt to the pace and dynamic nature of the business; process data, information and feedback with speed and communicate outcomes, alternatives and actions plans with appropriate urgency.
• Must have a strong analytical background.

Physical Requirements:

• This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Work Conditions: 

• The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.