Manufacturing Operations Senior Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

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Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.

What impact you'll make:

As a Gas Power Global Supply Chain member, the Greenville Manufacturing Operational Finance analyst is the key finance partner for manufacturing in Greenville, South Carolina. This role is will lead project initatives as well as oversight over gross production costs, inventory, and capital spend while driving key performance indicators including labor productivity, utilization and indirect costs per hour (utilities, supplies & tooling, maintenance).

Job Description

As a Gas Power Global Supply Chain member, GVS Components Supply Chain Senior Finance Manager is the key finance partner for the group of manufacturing sites Forrester SC, Bangor MA. These manufacturing sites execute gas turbine component and subcomponent manufacturing activities with ~320K hours of annual production. This role has oversight over ~$40M of gross production costs, ~$60M inventory, and ~$15M of capital spend while driving key performance indicators including labor productivity, utilization and indirect costs per hour (utilities, supplies & tooling, maintenance). This role will also drive standard performance reporting (utilization and productivity) across NAM Gas Value Stream.

• Partners with Ops Leaders to set Forrester specific strategy around Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) focused on driving costs & cash optimization.
• Oversee Bangor manufacturing operations, planning, pacing, monthly operating reviews.
• Execute weekly reporting and drive standardization of labor performance metrics (labor utilization and labor productivity) across NAM Gas Value Stream factory group. Prepare planning templates and participate in budget reviews.

• Leads manufacturing finance activities and rhythms, including planning, pacing, monthly operating reviews (MOR), and closing.

• Able to effectively communicate operational linkages to financial variance drivers including volume, mix, program savings, foreign exchange fluctuations, and product cost out (PCO)

• Leverage Supply Chain Operation Finance COE team and predictive analytic tools to enhance finance activities, pacing accuracy and provide value-add insights to operations.

• Evaluate short- and long-term strategic site re-investment to ensure delivery of project level return on investment (ROI) and portfolio level financial targets.

• Effectively communicate operational risks and opportunities and translation to impact on financials and KPIs.

• Drive culture of LEAN and standardization across Global Supply Chain (GSC) ... delivering high impact financial analytics and controls that drives operational accountability.

• Provide insights and transparency to actual costs, aligning site roadmap to develop pipeline to improve or control total cost per unit and bill rates.

• Wing-to-wing oversight over standard costing, slow-moving & obsolete inventory, FIFO, cost of poor quality (COPQ) and physical inventory (PI) processes and controls and driving improvements to site inventory turns.

• Financial audit of fixed asset & material Inventory physical and partner to implement remediation plan to improve plant level controls.

• Ad hoc requests and initiatives, such as make vs. buy analytics.

• Willingness to travel up to 10%

• Bachelors degree required.

• Prior domain expertise in supply chain finance

• Established leadership experience, both direct and indirect teams

• Knowledge of accounting policies and practices, including standard costing, inventory, and fixed assets

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Prior system ERP deployment experience

• Working knowledge of visualization software: Tableau

• Established project management skills, including relevant experience leading complex initiatives cross functionally.

• Embrace GE Vernova Way, driving innovation, serving customers, embracing LEAN, winning as one team, and accountable to deliver.

• Preference will be given to current Gas Power Finance employees and graduates of finance management leadership programs.