Position Overview
Key Responsibilities
Cash Flow Management
- Develop and maintain detailed weekly, monthly, and quarterly cash flow forecasts with precision expected in a PE-owned environment.
- Monitor liquidity and funding needs to support production schedules, capital investments, and growth initiatives.
- Partner with Accounting and other functions to ensure accurate reporting and proactive management of cash requirements.
- Support CFO and PE stakeholders with scenario modeling, cash bridge analyses, and liquidity risk assessments.
Working Capital Optimization
- Drive continuous improvement in the cash conversion cycle (CCC) by optimizing receivables, payables, and inventory performance.
- Collaborate with Operations and Procurement to establish best practices in order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and inventory management, ensuring optimal working capital utilization.
- Lead initiatives to unlock working capital and improve free cash flow, in line with PE performance metrics.
- Report and analyze working capital KPIs, providing actionable recommendations for improvement.
- Assist the preparation of reports to the investors and lenders, assist in the monthly operations review and board meeting presentation.
OPEX Oversight, Financial Planning and Reporting
- Monitor OPEX across departments and manufacturing sites, ensuring alignment with budgets and cost-efficiency targets.
- Proactively lead periodic reviews with various functions to ensure the business understands cost drivers and improvement opportunities.
- Identify and explain variances versus forecast and prior year, with a focus on operational levers and cost savings.
- Support the annual operating plan, reforecast cycles, and board reporting requirements.
Team Management
- Evaluate the current FP&A team structure, skills, and workload to ensure alignment with business needs
- Provide coaching, development, and clear direction to strengthen team capabilities and performance
- Team up with the director to build an effective, collaborative FP&A team that delivers timely, high-quality financial insights
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field; MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.
- 8 to 10 years of progressive FP&A experience, with direct exposure to PE-backed manufacturing or industrial companies. Proven track record of building up a functional team that thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing finance, including cost, OPEX, production cycles, and supply chain drivers.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP systems (JDE, Oracle, NetSuite, or similar).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to interact effectively with other finance leaders, various functions within the company and other external parties.
- Proactive, hands-on, and results-oriented, with a strong ability for execution in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to thrive in a performance-driven and highly analytical environment.
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