Finance Director, Operations COE

Overview

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Finance Director, Operations COE to join our team located at our headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Responsibilities

Your Role:

The Finance Director, Operations Finance COE leads the Operations Finance Center of Excellence, responsible for establishing consistent financial processes, performance visibility, and analytical support across manufacturing operations. The role partners with plant and business unit finance teams to strengthen operational decision-making and ensure consistent financial discipline and insight across the operations network.

 

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Develop standardized analytics and reporting frameworks for volume, labor, cost, and productivity performance.
• Provide cross-plant insights and benchmarking to identify systemic risks and improvement opportunities.
• Provide financial insight that informs decisions related to cost structure, productivity initiatives, and operational priorities.
• Provide forward-looking financial insight - not just reporting historical results. 
• Help operations leaders understand financial impact of operational decisions
• Challenge assumptions and drive fact-based decision making.
• Establish reporting standards, analytical expectations, and operating cadence in partnership with plant and business unit finance teams.
• Support executive leadership with clear synthesis of cross-plant performance trends, risks, and opportunities
• Translate complex operational and financial performance into clear executive-level insights, including concise summaries of performance trends, risks, and required actions for senior leadership.
• Enable consistent financial insight across manufacturing operations through scalable reporting, analytics, and performance frameworks that provide clear visibility into cost performance, productivity, and operational drivers.
• Elevate analytical and business partnership capabilities across the operations finance community through tools, standards, and best practices.
• Coordinate the financial component of plant performance reviews, ensuring consistent metrics, analysis, and executive-ready insights.
• Establish standardized frameworks for tracking cost performance and productivity initiatives across plants
• Support enterprise productivity and cost transformation initiatives by providing standardized tracking, financial validation, and performance insight.

 

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

Qualifications

We need you to have:

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in manufacturing or operations finance, preferably in a large manufacturing or CPG environment.
• Prior leadership experience.
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally and influence without authority.
• Experience partnering directly with operations leaders
• Excellent analytical, financial modeling, and Excel skills.
• Ability to get into the details, while also seeing and understanding the big picture
• Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, Power BI, Tableau, Hyperion, Smartview) and sourcing tools.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a hands-on approach.
• Demonstrated effective communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and senior levels of management.
• Ability to recommend, develop and implement innovative process improvements in the areas of reporting.

 

Icing on the cake:

• FP&A experience.

 

If you answer yes to the following…we want to meet you!

• Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
• Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on? 
• Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
• Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first? 
• Growth