Operations Finance Manager

Are you obsessed with data, partner success, taking action, and changing the game? If you have a whole lot of hustle and a touch of nerd, come work with Pattern! We want you to leverage your skills to push one of the fastest-growing companies in the US to the top of the list. Pattern is the premier partner for global ecommerce acceleration and is headquartered in Utah's Silicon Slopes tech hub—with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Valued at $2 billion, Pattern has been named one of the fastest growing tech companies in North America by Deloitte and one of best-led companies in America by Inc. More than 100 global brands—like Nestle, Sylvania, Kong, and Panasonic —rely on Pattern's global ecommerce acceleration platform to scale their business around the world. We place employee experience at the center of our business model and have been recognized as one of America's Most Loved Workplaces®.If you're someone who thrives on collaborating with teams across all levels of the organization to drive the financial success of the business forward, this role is for you. As a Manager, Operations Finance, you'll play a pivotal role in Pattern’s growth well beyond our current $2B valuation and will report to the Director of Operations Finance. This is a full-time role and will work a hybrid schedule based in Lehi, Utah

What is a day in the life of a Manager, Operations Finance?

• Cross-functional collaboration: frequent partnership with operations, sales, and finance leadership to solve important business problems
• Financial Reporting: creating, improving, and presenting monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages 
• Strategic Finance: complex financial and operations modeling to assist operations leadership in strategic decision-making
• New Ventures: running analysis on new 3PL business opportunities for Pattern Fulfillment, including deal review, approval, and monitoring of KPIs against targets
• Leadership: Leading and developing other team members

What will I need to thrive in this role?

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Business, or other related field  
• 5+ years of relevant experience, ideally in both finance and operations/supply chain
• Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to interact with a variety of stakeholders
• Proven experience solving complex financial and operational problems related to inventory, capital expenditures, warehousing, transportation, labor planning, etc.

What does high performance look like?
• Building scalable, repeatable processes and tools to quantify and optimize the financial impact of Pattern’s operations
• Effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders, including strong executive presence
• Strong leadership, ability to influence, develop, and drive results through team members
• Ability to to manage the details of a complex issue and also take a broader view to connect the dots and understand the big picture
• Capacity to consume complex data sets and drive actionable insights
• Global mindset. Ability to work effectively with global partners to drive improved financial operational performance across the globe in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Australia

What does success look like in the first 30, 60, 90 days?
In the first 30 days:

• Familiarize yourself with all aspects of Pattern’s business with a focus on understanding the people, processes, and interdependencies between finance and operations
• Work with the sales engineering team to review new Pattern Fulfillment deals to determine profitability and monitor the financial success of existing deals

By day 60:

• Create and present the operations monthly financial reporting package
• Build a repeatable process to assess the profitability of our new 3PL business on a monthly basis
• Improve rigor of analysis and forecasting in warehouse network planning
• Own analysis and make strategic recommendations related to inventory efficiency, warehouse optimization, labor planning, etc.
• Demonstrate ability to build relationships with Pattern leadership and collaborate and connect the dots across finance, operations, and accounting

Within the first 90 days:

• Provide actionable suggestions on how to drive savings, improve processes, and build tools to automate and scale our work
• Own forecasting and building of Pattern’s operating plan for the coming year
• Work effectively with the accounting and product management teams to implement scalable invoicing processes for new 3PL Pattern Fulfillment customers
• Work with operations leadership to design and implement an improved tactical operational planning process t