Senior Finance Manager

About this role:

The Senior Finance Manager is the financial business partner for a Carrier manufacturing facility, leading financial planning, cost control, and decision support across the operation. This role leads the site's finance function and internal controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the site.

• Owns manufacturing cost control and variance analysis.

• Ensures integrity of financial reporting and US GAAP accounting compliance.

• Provides financial support to capital investments (CAPEX) and business cases.

• Serves as a business partner to the leadership team on decision-making.

• Ensure internal controls and compliance with corporate policies (SOX).

• Leads and develops the site finance team.

• Owns inventory financial governance, including valuation, reserves, cycle count support, excess and obsolete inventory analysis and working capital performance. 

• Drives continuous improvement, process optimization, and finance transformation initiatives.

• Serves as the primary finance lead for audits, compliance activities, and corporate governance requirements. 

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• 8+ years of finance experience, including 3+ years supporting a manufacturing operation.

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field; an MBA or CPA is strongly preferred.

• Expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, variance analysis and standard costing. 

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, internal controls and SOX compliance. 

• Proven experience leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and CAPEX business cases. 

• Demonstrated ability to serve as a business partner to operations leadership. 

• Proficiency with ERP (SAP/Oracle) and BI tools (Power BI). 

• Experience in high-growth