Strategic Finance Manager (Manufacturing)

Join Zipline, a leading logistics company, as a Strategic Finance Manager in the manufacturing sector. In this role, you will partner closely with various departments to establish cost truth, improve inventory and cash visibility, and create actionable variance analysis. You will also build financial models, develop dashboards, and analyze key operational drivers. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys translating operational reality into financial insight and thrives in a fast-changing manufacturing environment.

• Assumer la responsabilité de la production de rapports financiers, de prévisions et d'analyses des écarts dans les domaines des coûts, de la main-d'œuvre, des stocks, de la trésorerie et des dépenses d'exploitation.
• Collaborer avec les équipes de fabrication, de chaîne d'approvisionnement, de qualité, d'ingénierie, d'exploitation et de comptabilité pour comprendre les moteurs de performance et les transformer en actions commerciales claires.
• Développer des tableaux de bord, des rapports et des cadences opérationnelles qui offrent aux dirigeants une meilleure visibilité sur la performance de la fabrication et l'économie unitaire.

• This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys translating operational reality into financial insight
• You will be successful here if you can thrive in a fast-changing manufacturing environment while knowing what great looks like in the future
• Balance analytical rigor with business judgment and a bias toward action
• Thrive in environments where the right answer requires building the model, improving the process, and tightening the data at the same time
• Experience working with ERP, MRP, MES, inventory, or operational data systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Zerp, or similar tools
• Enjoy understanding how products are built and how operational decisions affect cost, throughput, and cash
• Finance, Cost Accounting, Supply Chain Finance, or another analytical finance role
• Can distinguish factory-owned execution from upstream design, supplier, quality, or launch-related drivers
• Build strong relationships across Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, and Accounting
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial statements, and operational performance drivers
• Strong problem-solving skills, high ownership, and the ability to operate effectively when processes and data are still evolving
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline
• Take ownership of your work and continuously look for ways to make recurring finance processes more scalable
• Approximately 3+ years of experience in Manufacturing Finance, FP&A, Operations
• Ability to work with large datasets, identify the business drivers behind the numbers, and communicate findings clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Can independently investigate messy operational data and turn it into practical recommendations
• Experience analyzing manufacturing, hardware, supply chain, inventory, or other operational cost drivers
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Naturally ask "why" when performance moves, and can separate symptoms from root causes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with SQL, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar analytics and business intelligence tools
• Experience in high-growth hardware, aerospace, robotics, automotive, consumer electronics, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex operational environments
• Experience with inventory analysis, WIP, E&O, cycle counts, rework, scrap, yield, throughput, or capacity planning
• Experience supporting manufacturing cost reduction, product cost modeling, make-buy decisions, or supplier cost analysis
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, Accounting, and systems teams
• Familiarity with standard costing, expected cost models, BOM governance, or cost accounting concepts
• Passion for building scalable processes, improving data quality, and turning ambiguity into operating clarity