Finance Manager

Position Overview

Hunter Douglas is seeking a Plant Finance Manager to act as a strategic partner to plant leadership and financial management, overseeing the plant’s financial responsibilities. The role covers the plant income statement, capital and inventory reconciliations, financial compliance, forecasting and budgeting, and variance analysis. A key focus is identifying opportunities to boost plant performance and evaluating returns on capital investments while safeguarding company assets. The position may supervise analysts or other financial staff as needed. This is a pivotal leadership role within the plant, and the ideal candidate will embody the company values and foster growth for all stakeholders. Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84116.

What you'll do

An employee in this role may be called upon to perform any or all of the following essential functions. These examples illustrate typical responsibilities and are not exhaustive.

• Partner with Plant Operations and HR Leadership as a core member of the Plant Leadership team, providing daily direction to plant staff and delivering insights to senior leadership.
• Communicate monthly results, periodic forecasts, and the annual plant operating plan/budget, including generating necessary reports.
• Prepare templates and consolidate monthly analyses and reports for actual versus budget/prior year results and conduct variance analysis.
• Conduct analyses such as KPI metrics dashboards, SQDC, production labor and material efficiencies, backlogs, fixed asset management, inventory analysis, and other measures that highlight improvement opportunities and actionable recommendations.
• Ensure completion of month-end close activities including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Operations FP&A to ensure accurate inclusion of plant-level detail in Division, Brand and HDNA reporting, forecasting, and planning.
• Participate in strategic Division and Brand financial and operational planning; utilize plans to create and implement plant budgets and goals; understand the plant’s impact on the broader organization.
• Calculate annual standard cost for products produced at the plant.
• Assist in preparing the annual labor and overhead budget, including ongoing review of Labor Management and Capacity analysis.
• Establish labor and OH activity rates as dictated by the production plan.
• Review the accuracy and control of bills of materials and labor standard hours and rates.
• Provide financial analysis support and guidance for capital expenditure and cost-saving proposals; ensure requests align with plant goals, are financially viable, and review post-implementation results.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and identify and correct weaknesses.
• Assist external and internal auditors by supplying clear supporting explanations and documentation.
• Assist with planning and execution of physical inventories including analysis and reporting of results.
• Support successful launches of all new programs with proper cost estimation support and en

Compensation & Benefits

In return for your expertise, we provide a competitive and robust total compensation and benefits package designed to ensure you feel valued.