Sr Finance Program Manager

About the role

The Senior Finance Program Manager supports Operations and Supply Chain, focusing on gross margin transformation, long-range financial planning, and cross-functional program execution. This role bridges the gap between the CST Operating Unit and the Global Operations and Supply Chain organization.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the key finance lead for the CST Gross Margin Transformation initiative, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to identify, quantify, and execute margin improvement opportunities.
• Build and maintain driver-based gross margin models and lead scenario planning to evaluate the financial impact of strategic and operational decisions.
• Act as the primary finance interface between the Operating Unit and GOSC, ensuring alignment on financial targets, assumptions, and reporting.
• Translate operational and supply chain dynamics into financial insight for OU leadership and represent OU financial priorities within the broader GOSC organization.
• Lead development of the long-range financial plan for Operations and Supply Chain, building multi-year projections across product lines and integrating volume, cost, and productivity assumptions into a cohesive margin outlook.
• Perform modeling, scenario, and sensitivity analysis, including gross margin modeling, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and gap closure analysis.
• Establish and maintain a framework to track committed savings against realized results, providing visibility into initiative performance, surfacing risks to delivery, and ensuring accountability across stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, with minimum of 7+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally significant exposure to operations, supply chain, or manufacturing finance.
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, and gross margin analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, including driver-based, bottoms-up modeling.
• Strong program management capabilities with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Operations Finance experience strongly preferred.
• Strong technical skills, with a preference for working with Power BI and AI Agents.
• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced credential preferred.
• Experience in the medical device or other regulated manufacturing industry.
• Familiarity with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and ERP / planning systems.
• Experience supporting transformation or cost-savings programs at scale.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a Baccalaureate degree or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills, including driver-based, bottoms-up modeling.
• Strong program management capabilities with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Operations Finance experience strongly preferred.
• Strong technical skills, with a preference for working with Power BI and AI Agents.
• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced credential preferred.
• Experience in the medical device or other regulated manufacturing industry.
• Familiarity with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and ERP / planning systems.
• Experience supporting transformation or cost-savings programs at scale.

Physical Job Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers.

Benefits & Compensation

Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. Includes health, dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).