Manager, Financial Operations

Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.

Mgr Financial Operations

Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.


A Brief Overview
The Manager of Financial Operations will combine their finance and accounting acumen with an eye for efficiency and innovation to make a considerable impact on the business. They closely partner with Finance Operations leaders to deliver guidance on our working capital process, represent finance as the primary liaison to the business, and collaborate across the organization to build new tools and stand-up new systems or processes. The right candidate will be comfortable mentoring and growing a team of high-performing specialists, driving organizational change in a fast-growing company, and leveraging technology to continuously enhance operational efficiency within the finance function.

What you will do

• Lead a team of specialists throughout the full transaction lifecycle, including processing month end close activity, and ad hoc analysis focusing on efficiency while also providing mentorship and stretch opportunities.
• Partner with Finance Operations leaders to deliver guidance on working capital (accounts payable, accounts receivable) processes and their connected tools to implement any opportunities for improvement, with a primary focus on utilizing technology and automation to increase efficiency, accuracy, compliance, and governance.
• Leverage advanced proficiency in a variety of technical skills and applications such as Excel Power Query, VBA, SQL, and others to automate manual processes, develop user friendly tools, and educate stakeholders on new procedures.
• Identify key issues in organizational systems and collaborate cross-departmentally to resolve the building of internal tools, systems, business rules, and data infrastructure where necessary.
• Represent finance as a liaison with other internal business functions and other stakeholders relating to finance system enhancements. Develop and publish quality reporting and key performance metrics dashboards that provide key insights to assist the leadership team in driving and managing the business. Create templates and deliverables for Operational/Financial KPIs; identify methods to monitor performance against original assumptions; develop detective controls and predictive indicators. This leader will have the opportunity to present these results each month to senior leadership.
• Develop and build an operations budget along with providing commentary and guidance on key variances monthly. This leader will be responsible for maintaining a forecast and coaching leaders on operating efficiency opportunities.
• Identify and take on ad-hoc projects including new opportunities --e.g. process improvements to relieve operational bottlenecks

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Accounting or Finance) required

Experience Qualifications

• 5+ years Finance/Accounting experience required
• 4+ years experience with Power Query, VBA, and Tableau required
• People leadership experience required

Skills and Abilities

• Self-sarter, strong desire for getting results and willingness to learn
• Able to multitask while being detail oriented
• Manage multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal and communication/presentation skills
• Must be a team player and willing to step in and help on projects when necessary
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office products
• Must have strong technical skills and business acumen
• The ability to interact effectively with internal and external clients and cross functionally is critical to success
• Demonstrated ability to learn finance reporting and analysis tools, systems, and processes
• Clear and concise oral and written communication skills at all levels
• Ability to build consensus and influence outcomes

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