What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Financial Operations position at Safelite Group?
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The Manager of Finance operations will bring their finance and accounting acumen, innovation, and eye for efficiency 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. 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’ll Get
- Competitive base pay and bonus opportunities.
- Paid time off, holidays, paid volunteer days and a belief in work-life balance.
- 401(k) plan with company matching to build your nest-egg.
- Up to $5,250 annually in tuition reimbursement.
- An actual marketplace to meet your health, wealth, life and legal needs -https://www.safelitebenefits.com.
What You'll 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, billing) processes and their connected tools to implement any opportunities for improvement, with a primary focus on leveraging technology and automation to increase efficiency, accuracy, compliance, and governance.
- Identifying 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
Key Competencies
- Maintains an in-depth understanding of accounting principles, practices, procedures, and controls
- 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
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Accounting or Finance)
- MBA or CPA designations are preferable (Public Accounting Experience is a plus)
- Minimum of 5-7 years related accounting experience
- People leadership experience required
- Self-Starter, strong desire for getting results and willingness to learn
- Able to multitask while being detail oriented
- Manage multiple projects and meet deadlines under pressure
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Exact Work Location(s):
OH Columbus 7400 Safelite Way
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- Estimate only, actual value will depend on benefit elections during enrollment period.
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Health and Safety: To ensure a safe working environment and protect the community at large, depending on the position, Safelite may require pre-employment screenings, including background checks and/or drug screenings, attestation of one’s COVID-19 vaccination status, and precautions against COVID-19 in select work settings, subject to all applicable local, state and federal laws. Note: Safelite will grant reasonable accommodations that do not cause an undue hardship to the business to associates who are legally entitled.
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