Senior Finance Manager - Beverage Concentrate
This position is responsible for leading all aspects of finance and related compliance for our beverage concentrate manufacturing facilities in Ireland and the US, as well as supporting the execution of strategic goals and leading our financial planning process for these facilities.
Beverage Concentrate is the most profitable business segment, shipping over 1 billion equivalent cases annually.
Key Responsibilities:
* Direct Business Partnering: Lead financial review processes with business groups and partner with site leadership to ensure effective controllership and cost management, reducing costs and driving efficiencies.
* Have a deep and thorough understanding of costs versus benefits across both sites to help leadership make decisions on how to best allocate production between the BC sites.
* Responsible for preparing weekly and monthly financial reports and recommendations to management for delivering long and short-term business objectives for the Beverage Concentrate Sites in St. Louis and Newbridge.
* Support the BC operations team in driving productivity through data insights and ensure appropriate tracking of actual productivity delivered.
* Drives change to streamline financial processes, procedures, and improve effectiveness and efficiencies of financial reporting.
* Leverage strong relationships with operations and IT teams to effectively prioritize those objectives that are high impact to the BC business P&L.
* Be the financial SME on SAP, PA, and Alcohol TTB taxes for St. Louis and Newbridge.
* Lead standardization and continuous improvement across BC SAP systems, reducing complexity where possible; be able to translate issues into action plans, including troubleshooting settlement and/or costing issues.
* Train the operations team regarding GAAP standards and work with them to identify and correct gaps/workarounds in the process that may result in inefficiencies or inaccurate P&L results.
Budget/Forecasting/Action Planning:
* Lead the preparation and execution of the monthly financial accounting closing process (this includes running settlement in St. Louis and Material Ledger Close support in Newbridge.)
* Lead the preparation of our forecasts and annual budgeting process for these manufacturing sites with a deep understanding of all cost drivers to provide and build accurate and challenging budgets and forecasts Responsible for reviewing the standard costing model and determine annual labor and overhead rates.
* Be the SME for the SAP process for costing and direct labor, overhead, and depreciation rates across both SAP processes.
* Ensure accurate results and numbers in Planning Analytics for BC by working with the FP&A team.
* Prioritize activities and align with stakeholders to deliver results with a high degree of verifiable predictability.
* Target of forecast accuracy of 98%.
* Coordinate activities with corporate accounting to ensure accurate financial results and other financial closing activities.
Decision Support:
* Drive efficiency and decision support by managing the development and automation of our weekly manufacturing finance reporting models, including flash, volume, and MUV.
* Continuously partner with Operations to drive improvements in production using data gleaned from financial reports.
* Hold quarterly meetings to brainstorm ways to improve processes and drive results to the P&L.
* Proactively drive analysis around business performance by making sense of raw data, completing root cause analysis to understand key drivers, then use this data to assist the Operations team in improving financial performance Champion technology and process automation, including the implementation of new tools and dashboards where appropriate.
* Partner with IT for solutions to automate and streamline reporting for the BC segment.
* Perform financial reporting, ad-hoc project analyses, and financial modeling.
Career Development/Team Development:
* Excellent leadership skills required, including drive, decision-making, self-direction, influence, presentation, verbal/written communications, and the skill to make complex issues simple Ability to gain trust at all levels and to operate effectively within a matrix organization under tight deadlines Excellent people management skills with and a proven track record in coaching and managing team members as well as influencing leaders and decisions across the organization.
* Select, build, mentor, and coach talent to develop a high-performing team for BC finance.
* Participate in projects directly related to BC or in cross-functional areas 10% to 30% of the time to further career development training and develop new skills essential to the future of Keurig Dr Pepper.