Director of Finance Operations

Location: Irwindale, CA, US, CA 91706

Company: Bonduelle

Department: Finance

Reports To: CFO

Location: Irwindale, Calif.

Pay Range: $180,000 - $200,000

What if your job had a real impact?

By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others, and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well-being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables.

Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods®, Bistro®, Ready Snax®, Cool Cuts® and Bonduelle Fresh Picked™. Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!

Position Summary:
As the Director of Finance for Manufacturing Operations, you will be a strategic business partner of Operational leaders and Finance leads for all aspects of manufacturing and supply chain activities across multiple production sites. This position reports to the Chief Financial Officer.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitoring of operational performance

• Provide insights into all conversion cost components (direct labor, plant overhead, production yields). Recommends and implements techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, cut costs, take advantage of opportunities, and maintain best-in-class practices.
• Challenge performance based on industry benchmark, past performance, best internal achievements, improvement programs to help deliver or exceed the operational and financial commitments.
• Adequately review the current practices and processes.

Reporting on Operational performance

• Work with the corporate finance team and participate in monthly financial close as needed.
• Present timely and relevant financial reporting and analysis to Site and Functional leaders.
• Perform/review monthly variance review of P&L results. Prepare Management presentation material and present for monthly forecast/close meetings, & operational meetings and QBRs
• Develop annual and quarterly operational and financial targets
• Develop efficient, effective and repeatable financial reports on all key performance indicators.

Build and consolidate detailed annual budget

• Lead annual Site and Functional Budget process including development/analysis of budget targets, developing, communicating and driving the budget timeline, creating budget templates, creating/maintaining budget roll-up files, preparing budget deliverables for Site Management and BU Leadership Team.
• Inform and validate product costing for all manufacturing, supply chain and Procurement activities.
• Develop regular forecasts relying on IBP to create monthly, quarterly and full-year estimates that incorporate known and perceived headwinds and tailwinds.

Validate investment plan

• Confirm financial viability and return of efficiency and growth initiatives. Develop models to support CapEx projects and continuous improvement projects
• Independently screen and select CAPEX projects based on ROI, fit with short term and long term Commercial and Operational strategy

• Evaluate and maintain internal controls across all key operational activities
• Document policies and procedures.
• Install controls and train users across the supply chain to execute within the framework of established guidelines and controls.
• Propose recommendations to improve internal controls and gain visibility on performance levers.

Evaluate and maintain internal controls across all key operational activities

• Document policies and procedures.
• Install controls and train users across the supply chain to execute within the framework of established guidelines and controls.
• Propose recommendations to improve internal controls and gain visibility on performance levers.

Qualifications

• Desired Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Finance with a minimum of 8 years progressive experience in the Finance/Accounting field
• 5-10 years experience in manufacturing and supply chain in an industrial environment is required.
• Demonstrated leadership experience. 5-10 years supervisory experience or equivalent cross functional project leadership.
• Experience with financial system implementation & restructuring processes
• Superior analytical skills and strong attention to detail balanced by a keen ability to integrate the broader strategic picture.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management and with all levels of finance expertise