Senior Finance Manager

Who We Are

Johns Manville is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality insulation and commercial roofing, along with glass fibers and nonwovens for commercial, industrial and residential applications. Our products are used in a wide variety of industries including building products, aerospace, automotive and transportation, filtration, commercial interiors, waterproofing and wind energy.

A proud member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, we serve customers in more than 80 countries around the globe. We are committed to delivering positive and powerful experiences, because we are successful only when our employees and customers thrive. We are passionate, we care about people, we perform at a superior level, and we protect others and our environments.

Pay Range

This is the base salary pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire.   Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors. In addition, this position is eligible for an incentive bonus. 

Johns Manville is seeking their next Sr. Finance Manager. This role is now open because of an internal promotion.

This position will oversee full P&L and B/S responsibilities for the Building Insulation (BI) Materials business reporting to the Director of Finance for the Insulation Systems (IS) business and supporting the BI General Manager. This role involves managing commercial financial analysts, ensuring commercial controllership and internal controls, and leading pricing, profitability, and market analysis. The position provides financial leadership to operations, including manufacturing, sales inventory operations planning, and sourcing, with a focus on optimizing performance and costs. It also involves managing inventory levels, developing the Operations Finance Manager and North American Plant Finance Managers and Analysts, driving consistent financial processes across all plant operations, and ensuring adequate internal controls.

This position plays a key role within the Finance organization for the company’s largest division. The ideal candidate will be able to make an immediate impact on the organization and has the potential to advance to a Director of Finance role in the future within one of Johns Manville’s three business units.

Key objectives for this position include:

Financial Oversight

• Full P&L and B/S responsibility for Building Insulation business.
• Oversight for sales incentive compensation program tracking, reporting, and accounting.
• Oversight for customer rebate program tracking, reporting, and accounting.
• Oversight and accounting for all gross to net revenue factors.
• Leads and consolidates monthly, yearly, and long-term financial forecasting, planning, reporting, and analyses for the business.

Commercial and Operational Controllership

• Commercial and operational controllership and controls, including rebate agreements.
• Drives ownership and organizational discipline to monitor and proactively optimize financial performance.
• Drives improved sales and profitability reporting.
• Supports the Product Management organization financial requirements.
• Drives consistent reporting and tracking of productivity.
• Drives consistent financial processes across all plant sites including performance management, cost accounting, cost allocations, budgeting, and inventory/product costing.

Operational Leadership

• Works closely with the SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning) team to manage the sales planning process to optimize product mix and maximize efficiencies & financial performance.
• Drives actionable performance improving analysis of monthly operating results through identification of sources of variability, pricing and cost controls, and business strategy.
• Drives consistent financial models and decision support models across all operations, including capital financial analyses.
• Actively leads process simplification and assures compliant internal controls and SOX compliance requirements.

Performance Metrics and Collaboration

• Identifies appropriate performance-based metrics.
• Interacts heavily with IS Sales, Commercial, and Operations leadership teams.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with a minimum of 12 years of progressive financial management experience and 5 years in a financial leadership role
• MBA, CPA or CMA a plus
• Proven leadership ability and experience driving team performance
• Proven ability to drive performance improvements, and im