OPERATIONS FINANCE MANAGER

Position Summary

The Marvin Group is a strategic partner for global alternate mission equipment and sustainment. As an Operations Finance Manager, you will build relationships at all levels of plant operations, ensuring that company cost, financial, and budgetary processes are understood and implemented. You will turn actionable data into insights and assist in developing clear and concise dashboards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Build relationships at all levels of plant operations including work center, cost center, and department management as a direct report to the Vice President of Operations, dotted line to Finance.
• Ensure that company cost, financial, and budgetary processes are understood and implemented as the Cost and Financial focal point for Operations.
• Assist in developing and using clear & concise dashboards and KPIs that are relatable and actionable for Operations management.
• Provide performance-based reporting to include budgeted vs. actual hours, rate analysis, establishing a standard hours set of reports to include a CPI, SPI, and calculated EACs by department and program.
• Work with the Business Organization and Finance to evaluate new business opportunities and become a proposal team member representing Operations Finance.
• Assist in providing insight for proposed capital (IRR, cost savings, post-mortems) and participating in productivity and continuous process improvement projects.
• Improve the engineered standard hours and learning curve processes and reporting within Operations.
• Support Cost of Quality initiatives currently in-work across the enterprise.
• Provide inputs to Operations Weekly Status Reviews and prepare briefing charts and reports for PMR and DLT/FLT/ELT meetings.
• Initiate time studies and take actions to improve accuracy of time reporting based on analysis and related findings.

Skills and Requirements

• Three to five years of lead, supervisory, or managerial hands-on Operations Finance experience in a DOD manufacturing environment required.
• Cost accounting and analytics experience strongly preferred.
• CMA, PMP, APICS, Operations Management certifications are a plus.
• Experience in DOD proposal cost estimating, cost reporting, improvement curves in a manufacturing assembly and machining environment.
• Knowledge of TINA and FAR cost principles including Engineered Standard methodologies is a plus.
• Experience working with and/or developing meaningful operational reporting and guiding Operations members on interpreting and using financial, cost, and performance reporting.
• Experience coaching/leading a team preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Operations. MBA is a plus.
• Process strong math and analytical skills.
• Have excellent people management skills.

Work Environment

Medium-to-large office environment
Fast-paced office environment
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
Exposed to a combination of normal office type environments

Salary Range

Base Salary Range (Inglewood only): $125,000 – $155,000

Travel Requirements

Typically travel requirements for this position (10%)

Notes

• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this position's employee(s).
• All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to accommodate individuals with disabilities reasonably.
• To perform this job successfully, the employee(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently.
• Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others.
• The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at-will relationship.
• This position must meet export control compliance requirements. All applicants must be “U.S. persons” within the meaning of ITAR, as defined: a U.S. Citizen, a lawful permanent resident, political asylee, or refugee.