Manager, Financial Operations at Ajinomoto Foods North America
Ajinomoto Foods North America · Ontario, United States Of America · Onsite
- Professional
- Office in Ontario
Overview:
The Financial Manager, Operations is a key partner to Ajinomoto Foods North America operations and supply chain teams, enabling well-informed and timely strategic decisions for aggressive growth and footprint optimization.
Responsibilities:- Provide strategy and recommendations to finance and supply chain leadership
- Lead cost savings initiatives reporting and reconciliation to P&L
- Manage the consolidation and preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports pertaining to Operations
- Take on operations analysis for strategic investments and ROI projects
- Develop and maintain cross-divisional relationships with key business partners to maximize team’s effectiveness
- Analyze and forecast changes in inventory valuation and variance capitalization
- Drive KPI standardization and adoption across the supply chain
- Design and upgrade financial dashboards, analytical tools and key metrics
- Provide cross-functional training on financial metrics and budget elements
- Lead operations rolling forecast preparation and analysis
- Perform special projects and assignments as required
- 5+ years’ work experience in financial reporting, analysis, modeling and budgeting with demonstrated increasing levels of responsibility
- Self-motivated and resourceful; able to multi-task and focus on delivering results
- Ability to understand complex issues and communicate clearly to non-finance business partners
- Analytical, quantitative and logical with raw intellectual ability
- An enthusiastic team member who collaborates well with others and builds strong working relationships
- Ability to build strong business partnerships with support teams
- Energetic and resilient with a strong work ethic; sense of accountability, open to feedback and focused on achieving excellence
- Strong project manager with a desire to improve processes, takes initiative and committed to developing creative solutions that generate value
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives; prior experience managing teams is a plus, as this role may include direct reports in the future
- Advanced working knowledge of Excel, Access and PowerPoint
- Experience with Power BI and databases preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field
- Range of pay $115,000 - $130,000, annually. Plus, annual bonus.
