OpCo Finance Director

Position Summary: To be a primary business partner to the OpCo President(s) at assigned OpCo(s) in setting financial goals and strategies across the organization. This position is responsible for assigned organizations’ financial planning and management, providing business insight and recommendations to drive achievement of the division’s business plan and maximizing its return on net assets, ensuring proper internal controls and procedures are established and followed, and for safeguarding the assets of the division(s). This role is on-site that requires light travel between our Columbus, Cleveland, and Detroit locations. Responsibilities: Develop annual strategic and financial business plans for divisions in collaboration with the management team, ensuring they are focused on achieving revenue growth targets and operational efficiencies while ensuring the linkage between the plan and longer-term growth goals. Review customer proformas to support pricing / bid process and evaluate actual profitability against expectations. Participate in Customer Business reviews as needed. Ensure expense leverage throughout the division by reviewing and making recommendations for savings in expense areas including selling, warehouse, delivery and general departments. Responsible for submission of timely and accurate forecasts and trend analyses with agreed template and timetables established by corporate financial planning and analysis. Communicate any material change to forecast/budget as soon as known. Review financial results, including revenue and expense trends, with division’s management team and make recommendations for corrective action to mitigate variances from plan. Prepare, review and approve month end variance reporting, highlighting key variances to plan and last year Review and process month end journal entries to ensure a timely and accurate close process. Monitor inventory management systems, policies and procedures to protect asset value. Special emphasis required to ensure proper procedures and controls are in place to keep inventory shrink at or below Company standard. Support external and internal audit processes as necessary. Provide ad hoc analysis as needed to support the Regional VP and Division Presidents. Performs other related duties as assigned.