Marvin Engineering Company · 16 hours ago
OPERATIONS FINANCE MANAGER
LA Metro Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $155K/yr
3+ years expMarvin Engineering Company is a leading defense contractor specializing in military aerospace and vehicle systems. They are seeking an Operations Finance Manager to oversee cost, financial, and budgetary processes within operations, build relationships across departments, and turn data into actionable insights for management.
AerospaceIndustrialManufacturingSales
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Build relationships at all levels of plant operations including work center, cost center, department management including Directors and the Vice President of Operations and COO
Ensure that company cost, financial and budgetary processes are understood and implemented as the Cost and Financial focal point for Operations
Turn actionable data into insights as the cost, budget, resource utilization and efficiencies subject matter expert
Assist in developing and using clear & concise dashboards; translate numbers to a message; relate message to themes people relate to and easily understand
Analyze planned vs. actual hours, capture standard hours planned versus complete are translated into a cost performance and schedule performance indices needed for determining actionable management actions and forecast EACs and delivery schedules
Compare comparison to budgets and used for forecasting EACs by identifying and explaining variances to plan
Related to material usage and labor costs by program and at the lower level and summary level of Operations
Assist and coordinate the development of Operations “touch labor” proposal, budget and EACs estimates and the annual cost center budgeting process
Support Lean and continuous process improvement
Assist in ensuring that the Manufacturing cost savings initiatives meet expectations for current and future years
Work with the Business Organization and Finance to evaluate new business opportunities; assist in providing insight for proposed capital (IRR, cost savings, post-mortems) & productivity projects and continuous process improvement)
Identify best practices and process improvements across the MEC Manufacturing enterprise
Assist in the development of procedures and controls to ensure accurate engineered standard hours, budgets at each level of the manufacturing process down to the production order level
Initiate time studies and take actions to improve accuracy of time reporting based on analysis and related findings
Advanced skills in Excel with familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) are crucial
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
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
Qualification
Required
Advanced skills in Excel with familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Process strong math and analytical skills
Have excellent people management skills
Preferred
Three to five years of lead, supervisory, or managerial hands-on Operations Finance experience in a DOD manufacturing environment
Cost accounting and analytics experience
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
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Operations
MBA
Knowledge of TINA and FAR cost principles including Engineered Standard methodologies
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
Company
Marvin Engineering Company
Our mission is to give the warfighters we depend on, the critical equipment they depend on.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Leon Tsimmerman
CFO
JOSE PEREZ
QUALITY INSPECTOR
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