Senior Manager Operations Finance
About this role
Position Title:Senior Manager Operations Finance
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 43948
- Serve as the senior finance business partner to plant leadership teams, providing financial guidance on strategic decisions and initiatives.
- Lead month-end close activities and plant financial performance reviews, ensuring accurate reporting and clear performance insights.
- Analyze and explain manufacturing variances, translating findings into actionable recommendations for operational leaders.
- Identify cost-saving and productivity improvement opportunities and support the implementation of sustainable solutions.
- Manage product costing activities, including cost analysis, feasibility assessments, and savings evaluations related to formulation and R&D initiatives.
- Lead forecasting and budgeting processes for the manufacturing sites, ensuring robust assumptions and alignment with business objectives.
- Partner with plant leadership on capital expenditure planning, investment analysis, tracking, and post-investment reviews.
- Ensure effective internal controls and compliance processes that safeguard company assets and maintain financial integrity.
- Coach, develop, and lead Operations Finance Analysts while fostering a high-performance team culture.
- Support cross-functional projects, capital initiatives, and continuous improvement programs across the European Supply Chain network.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.
- 10+ years of manufacturing finance experience, preferably within consumer products, food manufacturing, or a similar environment.
- Strong knowledge of cost management, standard costing methodologies, and accounting systems.
- Solid understanding of profit and loss management, margins, manufacturing cost drivers, and financial performance metrics.
- Advanced analytical and technical skills, including proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and financial systems.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated problem-solving capabilities, including root cause analysis and resolution of complex operational and financial issues.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong business partnering, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Finance
Location(s): NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Rilland || NL - Netherlands : Zeeland : Kruiningen
Company: McCain Foods Holland B.V.
Company at a glance
At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together.
As a privately owned family company with over 67 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 23,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $14 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.
Guided by our purpose—celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food—we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change. At McCain, sustainability goes to the heart of our purpose as a business. That purpose means putting agronomy at the forefront of all we do to ensure healthier soils which lead to more sustainably sourced food. It means reducing our climate impact and supporting the communities where we operate—today, tomorrow and for generations to come. 🌱🥔🍟
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