This position provides comprehensive financial leadership and analytical support to the Marketing & Manufacturing VP’s & Product teams.  The position will provide reporting and ad-hoc analytical support for one or more product teams encompassing sales and margins, product costing, production support at multiple manufacturing plants, and sourced product analysis.  It will play a key support role in the development of the company’s five-year strategic plan and ensures that appropriate methods are in place to track volume, profit and other key metrics critical to running the business and to making critical, time-sensitive decisions. This position has daily exposure to the SVP’s of Product Development and frequent exposure to other members of senior management.

Scope of Position Duties

Provides a single point of contact for all aspects of financial analysis relating to the product team, acting as the primary day-to-day business partner for the Product Directors, Operations Directors and their respective staffs.  The finance director will be called upon to understand all business issues relating to a product team and to be able to communicate issues and propose solutions to the executive management team.

Provides ad hoc analyses as requested.  Examples of marketing support may include analyses of particular SKUs, colors, shape/sizes, price points or similar analyses.  Examples of manufacturing support may include capacity utilization analysis, product costing analysis and payback analyses and modeling of significant capital projects (such as expansion of manufacturing capacity).

Serve as the liaison between product marketing and manufacturing in all product standard costing decisions.  This will include costing of new products, transfers between plants and vendors, and similar issues.

Leads the Annual Sales Plan and Five Year Strategic Plan, and recurring sales forecasting processes for one or more product teams.  This includes working with Product Directors to forecast sales at the product line level, and summarizing those plans for executive-level meetings, and interfacing with the operational planning / production scheduling group on a recurring basis.  Product teams are of significant size and complexity.

Contribute financial information to the development of financial plans and develop financial framework by analyzing operational requirements.  Develop support and control structures, systems and profitability models.  Analyze and make recommendations to operational strategic thinking.  Establish financial objectives; prepare annual operating and capital budgets; prepare and update forecasts.

Maintain financial performance by developing operating and financial metrics.  Analyze results and trends and provide budget variance feedback.  Review contract pricing and terms.  Drive financial accountability throughout operating units.

Qualified Candidates must have-

**BA/BS Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field required. 

**Advanced degree and/or CPA certification preferred. 

**10+ years of progressively responsible related financial experience required, including budgeting, forecasting, planning, analysis, and building financial models.

**Heavy Experience within the Finance/Accounting manufacturing and sales & marketing support.