Catalyst Acoustics is seeking a Finance Manager. This key position functions as a trusted collaborator in the financial group, directly supporting the Finance Director responsible for budget preparations, forecasting and financial analysis. This position needs to be comfortable with taking initiative and thinking beyond simply reporting. This individual will serve as a partner to the business and help drive profitability by contributing to the team via process improvements and valuable data-driven insight.

Job Responsibilities:

Financial Planning and Analysis:

• Track financial status by monitoring variances from plan and forecast and work with the team to offer valuable insights to help drive profitability.
• Recommend changes to quarterly and annual forecasting based on changing conditions and singular events.
• Investigate root cause of changes in profitability by product line and geographic sales channels from plan and prior year.
• Develop internal management reporting and report on KPIs that provide timely, actionable data to key decision makers.
• Tie financial information into activities, objectives and performance indicators for sales, marketing, R&D, and operating functions.

Consolidation & Reporting:

• Coordinate the consolidation activities and analytics.
• Perform the worldwide consolidations and allocations necessary to complete the AOP schedules to corporate by deadline.
• Ensure the integrity of financial information to reporting unit statutory reporting submission.
• Maintain sales eliminations amongst intercompany partners.

Budgeting & Annual Operating Plan (AOP):

• Works with the functional leads to develop the relationships and assumptions necessary to predict variable margin for the annual operating plan.
• Provide the information and templates necessary to populate SG&A expenses by department for the US annual operating plan identifying any significant increases from present year’s forecast.

Business Systems & Data Management:

• Build/Maintain all aspects of consolidated, multidimensional reporting in the business system to analyze the operations.
• Populate non-financial information on a monthly basis (i.e. headcount).
• Work with staff to make any changes to the local general ledger necessary to accurately describe business operations.
• Perform analysis across various data repositories to build a complete picture (ERPs, data analysis tools, etc.)

Stakeholder Engagement & Support:

• Provide management and functional department leads with relevant, accurate and timely reporting on variance analysis pertaining to sales, margins, OpEx, etc.
• Hold monthly review meetings with the department leads and support questions and follow-up as needed.

Cost Allocation & Intercompany Accounting:

• Allocate expenses based on predefined effort distributions across business segments and geographic sales channels.

Job Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance, MBA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years progressive financial experience in a manufacturing environment including prior involvement with FinOps as well as planning.
• Experience in business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Fluency working within Office 365 and ability to come up to speed quickly working within a manufacturing ERP.
• Understanding of business consolidations and financial analysis.
• Prior experience in understanding and helping manage cost accounting elements in a manufacturing setting preferred.
• Proven track record of collaboration skills demonstrating a positive attitude and personal accountability; ability to resolve issues/conflicts in a timely manner.
• Self-starter who is able to function under minimal supervision.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks.

Catalyst Acoustics offers a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, retirement savings with company match, paid leave (vacation, sick, personal and holiday), employee assistance programs, associate discounts, community involvement opportunities and much more.

Catalyst Acoustics is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability (in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act) with respect to employment opportunities.