Finance Manager - Operations/FP&A | Direct Hire | National City

National City (San Diego) | Onsite, 5 days per week | Direct Hire

About the role

Finance Manager position for an established maritime transportation and automotive logistics company at their National City marine terminal. This role serves as the finance lead over one of their operating divisions in a fast-paced, tangible, metrics-driven environment involving ships, vehicles, rail, and high-volume auto flows.

Responsibilities

• Division budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with hands-on ownership of financial models
• Client and service-level pricing, profitability, and margin analysis, including identifying margin leakage
• ROI, scenario, and sensitivity modeling for real operating decisions
• Partnering directly with terminal and site operations leadership as a strategic thought partner
• Oversight of a site-based team covering billing, collections, AP, and invoice coding (2 direct reports)
• Building BI dashboards and automated recurring reporting
• Presenting financial insights to the CEO, CFO, and senior leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and directly related experience
• 5+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, and forecasting
• Prior supervisory or people-leadership experience
• Operations-facing finance experience partnering with site, terminal, plant, or operations leadership
• Experience with pricing, profitability, ROI, scenario, or sensitivity analysis
• Working knowledge of billing, accounting, collections, AP, payroll, and cash management at an oversight level
• Strong Excel, quantitative analysis, KPI/metrics, and multi-system reporting skills
• Executive-level communication and presentation skills
• Willing and able to work onsite five days per week at the National City marine terminal

Nice to have

• Finance Manager, Division Controller, or Plant Controller experience supporting a terminal, plant, construction operation, logistics business, or other tangible operating site
• Background in manufacturing, construction, transportation, logistics, heavy-industry, or multi-site operations
• Client and service-level pricing and profitability analysis experience
• Experience implementing or supporting BI, EPM, dashboard tools, or automating recurring reporting
• Comfort learning home-grown or proprietary operating systems; interest in automotive or large-scale logistics

Benefits

• High-visibility role with regular exposure to the CEO/owner, CFO, and senior leadership
• Key finance partner at the headquarters site for a large auto-processing operation
• Career runway into corporate FP&A and other West Coast business lines
• Genuine transition runway with the outgoing incumbent staying through year-end
• Typical schedule: 8:00 AM–5:00 PM Monday–Friday (earlier starts like 6:00 AM–3:00 PM or 7:00 AM–4:00 PM supported)
• No regular travel required

Pay

$125,000 - $145,000 base salary plus a 10% annual target incentive

Background check required.