Director, Operations Finance

Strategic Business Partner

This position serves as a strategic business partner to operations leadership by providing timely analysis and insight into cost and operational performance of Menasha Packaging’s Corrugate sites. Financial objectives focus on driving cost transformation, throughput efficiency, and margin enhancement, while also driving strong forecast accuracy and clear, accurate, and timely reporting. This role will also own responsibility to ensure there are strong reporting and performance KPIs in place to drive understanding of financial and operational performance and bringing actionable insights on key drivers. This role will be counted on to lead leaders of financial analysts and plays a critical role as a coach and a builder of future leaders.

This roll will also be a strategic thought leader in driving analytical work supporting significant cost transformation moves, along with strategic long-range capital and capacity planning as well. Ability to independently balance many competing priorities and proactively address vague or broad business, or process challenges, is a critical skill in this role. Being able to think strategically, bring critical thinking and influence leadership with cleanly communicated, synthesized analysis of complex issues will be key to the candidate’s success.

An eagerness to invest time in talent development, a passion and skill to coach, provide feedback and build capabilities of others is a key skill the ideal candidate must bring to the table. An ability to provide candid feedback and stretch and the team is critical in this role. They must be able to role model for and coach up their financial analysts in these leadership behaviors as well.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Key, deeply trusted, highly influential finance partner to the VP of Operations and MPC Leadership team, and a trusted partner who provides counsel across operations and commercial teams, regarding critical decisions and their impact on MPC profitability
• Ensure operational performance and cost trends are understood and well controlled by finance and operations business partners via established standard processes and governance
• Provide timely and accurate financial reporting and forecasting of Menasha Packaging (MPC) cost of manufacture outlook
• Provide insights to operations business partners on drivers of throughput performance and opportunities to grow throughput
• This role would help build and transform the reporting and forecasting disciplines within Operations Finance.
• Lead critical, strategic capacity and capability capital business case development
• Lead cost transformation, cost savings analysis for the business
• Review/monitor cost performance and analyze trends and proactively drive timely action plans to capture cost savings opportunities and mitigate risks
• Gatekeeper of all capital investment evaluations or business cases coming from adjacent internal business while serving as a steward of internal controls
• Provide thought leadership on management of inventory and drive improvements in efficiency of inventory
• Synthesize complex data trends and communicate implications and recommendations in a compelling manner that facilitates action
• Display an ability to collaborate with a wide variety of business partners, and ability to build trust and adapt to changing business demands
• Monitor working capital levels and aging, leading and supporting resolution of aging inventory
• Identify areas of continuous improvement with the teams you lead, as well as within the Finance function, sharing best practices within the Finance team
• Lead, coach and develop direct reports, including timely, regular discussion of current performance as well career development pathways

Other Requirements (Education, Experience, Technical Knowledge)

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 10+ years of related work experience in manufacturing accounting or financial analysis
• Experience with SAP S4/Hana highly desired
• Some travel required
• Strong analytical horsepower and problem-solving skills
• Highly inquisitive, strong listener
• Proactive, with a bias to action, and taking action to make things better
• Ability to dive in the analytical details but also flex their style to synthesize and communicate across the highest levels of the organization – quickly going from 'rolling up the sleeves' or 'in the weeds' to simplifying a message to the President or CFO
• Self-motivated and self-starter continuously looking to drive improvements
• Passion for understanding the business and how to improve it
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to lead and influence business partners
• Adaptable and open to change in response to business changes and process and system enhancements

Menasha Corporation consists of two companies that are leading the way to a sustainable future with packaging and supply chain solutions. Founded in 1849 and headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, we employ over 7,500 employees in 112 facilities in North America and Europe.

Our companies are leading corrugated and plastic packaging manufacturers and supply chain solution providers. Our Menasha Packaging Company is the largest independent provider of packaging and supply chain service solutions in North America, designing, printing, and fulfilling graphic packaging, display and merchandising solutions for over 1,800 brands, both in-store and online.

Our ORBIS business believes there is a better way to optimize today's supply chains, with reusable packaging products and services. Reusable containers, pallets, dunnage, bulk systems and metal racks improve the flow product all along the supply chain to reduce costs, enhance profitability and add sustainability.

Our products and services are used by global, name-brand companies in the food, beverage, health and beauty, over-the-counter pharmaceutical, industrial, automotive, and electronics industries.

Come build an exciting, rewarding career with us, where you'll have opportunities to grow.

The possibilities are endless. The power is yours!

Menasha Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will be provided with equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or genetic information.