Finance Manager

Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.

Woodward supports our members' wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

• Estimated annual base pay: $112,000(minimum) - $140,000(midpoint) - $168,000(maximum)

• All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.
  • 401(k) match (4.5%)
  • Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
  • Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
• 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays.
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire

• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
• Member referral bonus

• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
• Voluntary benefits, including:

• Home / Auto Insurance discounts
• Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave

Are you ready to make your mark? If you're a Plant Finance Manager, we have an exciting opportunity for you. This position will be a strategic business partner to our Industrial segment's leadership team by accurately measuring and forecasting operational performance and relevant KPIs through analysis and recommendations of the Fort Collins plant ("Lincoln Plant"). You will monitor plant operational and financial performance and establish standard processes and drive a culture of continuous process improvements.

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide overall financial support to the Vice President of Operations for the Lincoln Plant.
• Responsible for annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting and monthly closing and reporting and variance analysis for Lincoln plant. Prepare accurate and timely plant management reporting package and lead monthly financial operational reviews with the Lincoln plant management.
• Assist ETFS BU Head of Finance in managing BU financial performance, demonstrating full ownership of the plant manufacturing metrics and inventory metrics.
• Provide visibility to plant operational and financial KPIs scorecard and consistently report actual performance vs clearly established targets, such as OEE metrics, material price and usage variance, labor rate and efficiency, overhead variances, productivity metrics, COPQ metrics, fulfillment metrics, inventory metrics.
• Provide accurate and timely manufacturing variances explanation. Proactively engage with plant management team to identify initiatives and drive actions to improve plant performance and close gap to deliver the budget.
• Ongoing review of cost structure and resource planning to optimize plant costs.
• Active participant in the integrated business planning process, working cross functionally to validate capacity assumptions in the S&IOP process for the Lincoln plant.
• Laison with Accounting COE for the Lincoln plant. Attend plant monthly Accounting COE closing call to ensure accuracy and consistency of closing process. Review financial metrics and trends to spot inaccuracies and then work with Accounting COE to correct as needed.
• Work closely with plant management team and Industrial automation team to validate capex project business plans and return on investment. Validate actual results vs plan.
• Standardize plant financial and operational KPIs and metrics, establishing one source of truth. Work closely with the other Industrial BU plants to ensure consistency of reporting and validation of methodology / definitions. Develop/execute on a roadmap to improve key data and process accuracy, such as labor vouchering, standard routings, etc.
• Support in the upcoming SAP rollout and document the business requirements for the Lincoln plant.

What We Are Looking For

• 3 years of financial experience managing a large complex industrial manufacturing operation. Demonstrated career progression across finance roles (FP&A, Manufacturing /Supply Chain Finance background preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting or Business required.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of general accounting principles and cost accounting.
• Six Sigma / Lean experience.
• Strong working knowledge of business reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Ability to work cross functionally in a highly matrixed global team.

Application window is anticipated to close 30 days from original posting date.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons.

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident (i.e., 'Green Card holder'), or a protected person (e.g., asylee, or refugee).

Woodward is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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