Job Description

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About This Role

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to develop your finance career, then we have an excellent opportunity for a plant finance manager located at our Collierville, TN manufacturing facility. We are seeking a motivated, results-oriented operations professional to continue to raise our high bar in manufacturing leadership. The experienced Financial Planning and Analysis professional will oversee financial analysis, research, budgets, and forecasts. Responsibilities will include preparing forecasts and performing financial modeling to develop and provide reports for functional or operational management.

This opportunity is a critical role within Carrier’s fast-paced residential HVAC manufacturing business. It requires a self-directed focus on increasing production and operations efficiency, through people management, technology, finance and business organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with plant staff, operations team, corporate finance, and HR team to create annual financial plan & monthly headcount forecast for the plant while ensuring plant stays within cost guidelines throughout year

• Proactively engage with corporate finance and operations leadership to understand financial impact of proposed projects and provide recommendations accordingly

• Partner with functional leaders to provide financial support for productivity and process improvement projects

• Develop, implement, and administer our site’s organization's financial systems, with a particular focus on interaction with HR

• Research financial record-keeping and reporting requirements best practices as well as ensure systems are modified to meet these requirements.

• Assist in month end closing process with particular focus on factory results

• Analyze financial and operational results to better understand company performance

• Provide detailed analysis and commentary on cost center results

• Maintenance of finance and associated procedures and standard work

• Analysis of material productivity reports

• Drive productivity improvements and achieve the facility’s financial and operational goals

• Prepare and analyze financial plans and forecasts, manufacturing projections, and asset management plans

• Utilize the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) operating system to propose and implement changes to existing processes to streamline and improve overall performance while maintaining cost controls and creating cost effective use of resources

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Systems or Business

• 3 + years of progressive work experience in financial sphere

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 + year of experience in a manufacturing environment

• Excellent project management skills and the ability to effectively lead and team with multiple functional groups to reach a common objective

• Excellent communication skills; candidate must be comfortable providing briefings at all levels of management and with remote communication

• Ability to influence decisions downstream and upstream

• Solid understanding of lean principles to effectively create, implement and monitor process improvement initiatives.

• Ability to work in a self-directed manner

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