Summary

This dynamic and strategic leadership role is responsible for overseeing financial management and operational control at our Morehead, KY plant. As a key business partner to the local operations team, this position plays a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring fiscal accountability, and supporting strategic decision-making through in-depth analysis and forecasting.

The role encompasses financial reporting, cost management, and variance analysis, providing leadership with the insights needed to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance profitability. Additionally, this position proactively collaborates with plant leadership to develop and deploy key operational metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable financial strategies that align with the long-term goals.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a strategic business partner by providing proactive financial analysis that drives informed decision-making. Anticipates financial trends and risks to support long-term sustainable growth.
• Transforms financial data into actionable insights, enabling agile decision-making in dynamic environments. Fosters a culture of financial accountability across the organization.
• Bridges financial strategy with day-to-day operations, ensuring efficient resource allocation. Actively contributes to innovation and digital transformation initiatives.

• Summarize and present financial results and key sales and cost drivers.
• Build and lead variance analysis to key benchmarks (budget, forecast, prior year, etc.) and clearly communicate key assumptions/inputs to plant leadership to ensure achievement of performance objectives.
• Be a key business partner to management, providing insight into the financials of the facility.
• Develop and deploy key operational metrics and analysis to support daily management of the business while proactively managing costs and working capital to drive sustainable improvement.
• Make assessments and recommendations based on regular review/analysis to site leadership.
• Partner with operations to support make/buy decisions, capital investments, inventory management, ad hoc analysis, and other needs.
• Lead inventory standard costing and margin analysis activities, including managing the annual standards roll and physical inventory.
• Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis/special projects to assist team in understanding business performance & offer solutions to improve performance
• Partner with central accounting to manage and maintain an effective controls environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. CPA designation is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years progressive experience in financial/accounting functions, including cost, in a manufacturing environment, prefer previous leadership experience.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications with expert level Excel skills.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex financial information.
• Ability to maintain professional skepticism – with capability to validate accuracy of reporting and draw general conclusions on the data.
• Flexibility to work in a dynamic team environment – with requests from inside and outside of immediate work team – and some requests directly from senior leadership.
• Ability to influence cross functionally and across multiple locations.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Results oriented with a bias for action, including ability to meet business critical deadlines.
• Proven high personal integrity.
• Previous experience with Oracle, Hyperion (HFM), and OneStream strongly preferred.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization

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Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised