Manufacturing Finance Leader, Insulation

Why Join Owens Corning?

The Insulation Manufacturing Financial Leader provides financial leadership to our Insulation businesses. This position has a strong cross-functional connection to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial Finance, Product Management and Accounting/Tax.

This position reports directly to the Global Manufacturing Finance Director for Insulation with dotted line accountability for Plant Controllers. The position is an important part of the financial talent pipeline and serves as a feeder for larger corporate roles.

• We take pride in having an inclusive and diverse workplace with employees around the globe.
• We are a company that fully recognizes the importance of paving a path to a sustainable and safe enterprise through investing in our people.
• By being a company that instills pride within each and every employee, we aspire to build market-leading businesses; global in scope - human in scale.

Who You Are: Abilities & Skills

• You are curious, passionate for learning, comfortable in challenging the status quo and seek for continuous improvement for greater impact and innovation.
• You enjoy partnering with teams and stakeholders to drive the best outcomes and in an open, transparent, inclusive environment, and respectful way.
• You are flexible and effectively manage competing priorities, operating within a matrixed organization.
• You are committed to deliver the best outcomes leveraging and empowering resources aligned with organization and business strategic priorities.

The Organization

Reports to: Global Manufacturing Finance Director for Insulation

Span of Control: Between 1-3 direct reports plus dotted-line accountability for 5-10 Plant Controllers

Drive segment and group profitability:

• Leads actions in line with achieving targets, mitigating risk, and prioritizing resource needs.
• Leads proactive development of contingency plans, productivity improvement and corrective actions to ensure facility financial results and shareholder value is optimized.
• Provides investment analysis via insightful and competitive analytics that anticipate change and drive decision making.
• Acts as a key stakeholder in the capital tracking & forecasting process.
• Leads the financial evaluation of capital expenditures and technical programs.

Operations planning and forecasting:

• Leads the development of strategic and operational objectives for the plants that are aligned to Corporate and Group strategic objectives.
• Leads financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for division plants.
• Responsible for cost of goods sold forecast.

Financial and operational controls:

• Ensures that there is an effective and efficient system of internal controls including data integrity, asset protection, segregation of duties, budgeting, financial reporting, information systems and adherence to corporate policies and governmental regulations (GAAP, SOX compliance, etc.) in the plants division wide.
• Drives a robust representation letter process that provides assurance and visibility to a sound internal control environment.
• Leads the Continuous Sign-off process to ensure that accountability for internal controls is clear and that processes are documented.

Reporting and analysis:

• Monitors monthly plant closing process in conjunction with the accounting team, provides in-depth analysis on variances to plan and forecast, provides risk analysis for contingency planning and appropriately elevates issues to business leadership timely to help drive resolution.
• Communicates results effectively to management and non-financial personnel.
• Leverages systems to promote automation, standardization, and simplification across the business and supports global system initiatives.
• Drives a continuous improvement mindset in the team as analytics and processes are developed operationally and financially.

Leading and developing talent:

• Creates an open, transparent, and inclusive environment where talent is developed through effective performance management, talent evaluation systems and utilization of people.
• Acts as a resource to the non-financial leaders of the business providing education and training on the key principles of Finance.
• Grows and develops direct reports and others identified talent in their organization.
• Ensures succession plans are executed for key roles.

Cross functional leadership and team contribution:

• Works effectively across organizational boundaries and at all levels of the company to achieve plant, division, or corporate objectives.
• Shares best practices across division, i.e., process improvements, financial modeling, and procedures changes.
• Aligns teams and resources to solve problems and drive results.
• Provides support to team members at plant, segment, and corporate level.
• Educates plant personnel on key performance financial metrics.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or relevant discipline.
• 5-7 years proven manufacturing finance experience.
• Ability to travel 20-30%.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• MBA, CMA, or CPA
• 3-5 years of experience leading other finance professionals.
• Experience operating within a range of economic conditions, i.e., expansion, contraction, stable economic conditions - forecasting, scenario planning, risk analysis and contingency.

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