Director, Manufacturing Cost & Operations

2 Months ago • 7 Years + • Operations • $180,000 PA - $195,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director, Manufacturing Cost & Operations will collaborate with the VP of Finance and business leaders, providing financial information, analysis, and insights to senior leadership. This role supports real-time analysis for informed decisions and business strategy. Responsibilities include managing financial performance, supporting budgeting, improving operations, analyzing sales forecasts, supporting product pricing, preparing capital investment analysis, and providing financial support for strategic planning. Additionally, the role involves presenting financial performance, forecasts, and variances, while also challenging existing practices to drive efficiency and cost savings. This role requires a strategic mindset to translate financial analysis into actionable financial improvements.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 7+ years of related experience
  • Experience with SAP ERP system (preferred)
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate clearly
  • Strong knowledge of accounting rules (GAAP)
Good to have:
  • Master's degree and CPA preferred
  • Manufacturing experience preferred
  • Experience with multi-currency and multi-entity consolidations
  • Ability to develop frameworks and solutions
  • Experience in rapid growth companies
Perks:
  • Employee discounts
  • Financial resources
  • Legal and/or childcare resources
  • Comprehensive health and wellness coverage
  • Monetary rewards towards health goals
  • Personal protection benefits

Job Details

JMA is restoring U.S. leadership in wireless technology at a critical time in the transition to 5G. It makes the world’s most advanced software-based 5G platform, designed, coded, and manufactured in Syracuse, NY at the only U.S.-owned 5G factory in the country.
 
Across its global tech centers, JMA makes 5G possible for organizations with the most critical connectivity demands in the world. JMA’s technology is ushering in a new era of connectivity for leading mobile carriers, the most iconic stadiums, major universities, leading healthcare centers, the busiest transit centers, and the U.S. Military.
 
5G is more than another G on your phone — it is a generational opportunity to change the way the world operates. Join the industry’s fastest growing technology company to shape that future today. 

The Director, Manufacturing Cost & Operations will work alongside the VP of Finance and business leaders to provide financial information, tools, analysis, and insight to Senior Leadership. This position plays an imperative role to provide ‘real time’ support and analysis for informed decisions and driving business strategy..

Position Responsibilities:

    • Support and monitor financial performance management for short and long term KPIs.
    • Work with Business leaders to prepare, analyze and drive company planning, forecasting and budgeting process.
    • Support operations to improve performance, margins, inventory management and overall costs.
    • Partner with the Sales and PLM Teams to analyze the sales forecast and related market share metrics, objectively assessing risks and opportunities behind the forecast.
    • Support product pricing models typically required in response to customer product proposals.
    • Prepare capital investment analysis considering return on investment and monitor achievement of performance goals.
    • Provide analysis to link financial decisions with business strategies in support of the annual strategic planning process.
    • Improve the impact and understanding of financial reporting on business performance.
    • Build partnerships with Senior management and their teams to provide financial support towards decision making with the strategic mindset to translate the financial analysis into actionable drivers of financial improvement.
    • Present financial performance, full year forecasts and budget variances to include financial opportunities and risk.
    • Challenge current ways of work to drive efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible.
    • Drive financial planning process to prepare and adhere to the annual budget.

Required Skills & Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; Master’s degree and CPA preferred
    • 7+ years or more of related experience required; public accounting experience preferred
    • Experience with multi-currency and multi-entity consolidations a plus
    • Manufacturing experience preferred
    • Experience with SAP ERP system, preferred
    • Ability to work cross-functionally, influence, and communicate clearly with all levels of management
    • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
    • Ability to develop frameworks and solutions to questions and concepts
    • Ability to work with a high degree of integrity, professional judgment, and management of confidential and sensitive information
    • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with multiple and changing priorities
    • Possess a strong knowledge of accounting rules (GAAP) and be process-oriented in the application of these rules and ability to analyze and interpret technical accounting guidance
    • Experience in companies facing rapid growth while maintaining the highest standards in accounting practices
    • #LI-TM1
$180,000 - $195,000 a year
The U.S. national annual base salary range for this role is $180-195K a year.  The range includes the base salary that is expected to be paid for this role.  Actual base salary will be based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to the scope and complexity of the role, the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, peer and market data and geographic location. This role will also include a bonus plan.
Learn more about our current opportunities on our career site!

At JMA, our people are deeply committed to their work and we provide benefits to match. When you join JMA you have immediate access to everything you need. Whether you're looking for employee discounts, financial, legal and/or childcare resources and support, we have you covered. We believe in providing comprehensive health and wellness coverage along with monetary rewards towards health goals, in addition to numerous company-provided personal protection benefits at no additional cost to you.
 
At JMA, we don’t just accept differences — we embrace them. JMA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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