Manufacturing Finance & Inventory Operations Manager

Responsibilities

• Own the integrity of inventory transactions, operational financial controls, standard costing methodologies, and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Work cross-functionally with operations, logistics, procurement, and leadership to ensure our ERP and inventory systems accurately reflect the economics of the business.
• Build and maintain standard costing methodologies for raw materials, packaging, labor, freight, processing, and cold storage.
• Create labor, freight, and materials standards and perform variance analysis against actuals.
• Analyze purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, and gross margin drivers.
• Support pricing decisions and operational improvement initiatives through financial analysis.
• Build operational finance KPIs and reporting dashboards.
• Support forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning activities.
• Aid in audit readiness, inventory procedures, and investor reporting.
• Collaborate with leadership on scaling operational and financial infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in: manufacturing finance, cost accounting, inventory accounting, supply chain finance, or operational finance roles.
• Experience working in manufacturing, food processing, protein, CPG, industrial, logistics, or distribution environments.
• Strong understanding of: inventory accounting, standard costing, variance analysis, operational financial controls.
• Experience with ERP systems such as Quickbooks, NetSuite, SAP or similar.
• Advanced Excel / financial modeling capabilities.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with operations and leadership teams.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced startup or scaling operational environments.