The Business Finance Lead serves as a key strategic partner, delivering data-driven financial insights, driving operational efficiencies, and ensuring alignment between financial strategies and business objectives. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, this role is responsible for leading annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, KPI management, operating reviews, efficiency tracking, and expense analysis to enhance profitability and resource optimization. The role demands deep expertise in financial planning, analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver sustainable, measurable impact.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Finance Leadership & Business Partnering
- Partner with leadership to develop and execute financial strategies that align with business goals.
- Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes.
- Manage monthly and quarterly operating reviews, preparing performance summaries and variance analyses.
- Provide strategic financial insights to support data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate with business leaders to drive cost management and margin optimization across product lines.
- Lead capital expenditure (Capex) planning, tracking, and ROI analysis to ensure alignment with long-term strategic priorities.
- Evaluate major capital projects to assess financial viability and strategic alignment.
- Build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to promote financial accountability.
- Ensure that operational KPIs align with financial performance objectives.
Pricing Strategy & Analysis
- Analyze and maintain dynamic pricing models across all product lines.
- Develop cost-based pricing structures and regularly assess performance against margin targets.
- Conduct variance analysis on pricing vs. cost structures, highlighting discrepancies in margins and recommending corrective actions.
- Partner with the Sales team to provide data-backed pricing support for RFPs and large bids.
Process Improvement & Optimization
- Lead initiatives to standardize, automate, and streamline financial reporting and planning processes.
- Enhance reporting accuracy and reduce turnaround time through financial system improvements.
- Spend time within production environments to understand workflows, identify cost-saving opportunities, and drive operational efficiency improvements.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 4+ years in a Manufacturing Environment is required
- Holds or working towards CPA designation preferred
- 4+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), strategic finance, or business partnering roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading annual budgeting, forecasting, and KPI reporting in a complex, cross-functional environment.
- Proven track record of driving margin improvement, cost optimization, and ROI-focused capital allocation.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, pricing strategy, variance analysis, and cost structures.
