Senior Director, Us Operations Cost & Global Inventory

Basic Function
The Sr Director, US Operations & Global Inventory Controller will drive Controlling excellence by optimizing data quality and accuracy, delivering actionable solutions, and creating valuable insights with a keen focus on cost-drivers, variances, trade-offs, and industry trends. This role will direct all aspects of US Plant operations, including COGS, COGP, and Capital Expenditure.
The Sr Director will lead all aspects of global inventory accounting, including improving and streamlining processes and internal controls, ensuring accuracy of inventory close data, and communicating key reporting insights and opportunities for global improvement, cost-savings, and efficiency.
Major Duties

• Lead a strong financial and operating control environment directing Sarbanes – Oxley process testing and improvements, driving accounting procedures, and ensuring compliance to GAAP/SOX.
• Direct routine financial analysis for domestic operations and coordinate the completion and reporting of the same for global inventory and operations groups and departments.
• Partner with operations management to understand performance, optimize operational decisions, design, and execute long-range strategies, and manage cost improvement opportunities.
• Development and training of staff to support departmental and corporate objectives and enhance employee career development.
• Manage continuous improvement and efficiency of the budgeting and forecasting process while ensuring a high level of accuracy, leveraging systems capabilities, and enhancing metric and bench marking routines.
• Lead ad-hoc financial analysis for any special projects as required
• Direct controllership of Oxford and Jacksonville plant labor, overhead and manufacturing capital expenditures, and financial reviews.
• Ensure and assist with timely and meaningful capital expenditure plans for manufacturing and inventory.
• Direct standardized and quality US Region COGS and Inventory month-end closes, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and related variance analysis.

Knowledge And Skills Required

• Must be able to deal effectively with all levels for the Operations Group and Operations and Corporate Finance organization around the world.
• Minimum Education Required: Bachelor’s degree with CPA/MBA preferred
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral).
• Outstanding analytical skills and abilities
• Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma background
• Change agent
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience required
• Ability to set and meet high standards for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis for all Operations units around the world.
• Expense budgeting
• Prior experience in plant controllership leadership function.
• Cost Accounting, Standard Costing, GAAP, Sarbanes – Oxley
• Ability to present information and analysis in a meaningful, timely and user-friendly manner
• Strong Analytical and Business skills.
• Influencing skills; business partnering expertise; strong mentoring skills
• Capital budgeting and accounting
• Solid skills and knowledge of accounting (GAAP) principles
• Strong knowledge base and working skills with cost accounting, standard costing, standard setting, COGS, inventory accounting

The base pay range for this position in New York City is $180,000 - $215,000/year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short and/or long-term incentives as part of total compensation.