Commercial Finance Manager

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

How will you make an impact?

The Commercial Finance Manager delivers the execution of the activities in support of the business, supply chain and operations. Being that the Commercial Finance Manager role is an essential part to the organization and as it drives a huge impact to business performance, providing a track record of delivery and proven experience is required.

What will you do?

RESPONSIBILITIES
·             Play proactive role in providing financial advice and assistance on business issues.
·             Using your knowledge of the business environment, provide an independent evaluation of financial forecast, and assessment of financial risk or opportunities.
·             Support and monitor business opportunities by review of quoting and business proposals.
·             Drive improvement in Core Operating Income and working capital metrics. Understand key drivers of both income and working capital to help maximize benefits to Jabil.
·             Actively engage and contribute to current quarter operating metrics and also in long term planning & strategy.
·             Working closely with the Plant Finance Controller and Operational teams review operational metrics and KPIs to ensure manufacturing performance is measured appropriately for each respective business and product group.
·             Monitor initiatives in support of achievement of the Long Term Plan and Annual Operating Plan.
·             Support Supply chain development management on initiatives that improve company material margin and working capital.
·             Constantly seeking to value-add to current process, information system, and business growth
·             Support the Business Planning, budgeting/ forecasting and actual financial performance process.
·             Identify and challenge cost structures providing modeling support to the business and operational teams in identifying and delivering opportunities to reduce the cost.

·             Compute and prepare data for journal entries, reviews general ledger and related financial statements for reasonableness.

·             Exchange knowledge and information with other Jabil facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the Jabil organization.
·             Provide commercial support and expertise to other team members.
·             May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

How will you get here?

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
·             Introduce and follow processes to ensure key financial and business controls are established on an efficient and effective basis.
·             Highly collaborative and frequent interaction with Business and operational groups in addition to other functional groups across finance.
·             Provide financial training and support to BUMS, Functional and Ops Managers as required with a focus on financial targets, metrics and variance understanding and analysis.
·             Ensure all aspects of the business are being reviewed to prevent liability exposure, to ensure all costs are being recovered from customer, and to eliminate cost gaps.
·             Strong commercial acumen.
·             Ability to work in a high-pressure environment, make quick and effective decisions, and direct others.
·             Excellent analytical skills to understand business drivers and interpret financial results.
·             Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively at all levels, get key messages across succinctly and work with others.
·             Proven track record in demonstrating accountability and ownership, proactive approach.
·             Strong influencing skills to persuade management that your conclusions are correct and obtain their buy-in.
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