AirBorn is seeking a dynamic, proactive, Finance Business Partner to support our manufacturing sites. This role will report to our Director of Finance Operations and serve a critical role by providing timely, accurate financial reporting, insightful analysis, and data-driven recommendations for our plant operational teams. The role requires the ability to work independently and take initiative. You will partner with plant operations personnel, supply chain, and division finance team members, providing proactive insights about operational performance.
What You Will Do in Your Role:
Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis:
• Assist with the plants’ monthly closing cycle by performing various month-end reviews and analyses, ensuring financial information is recorded appropriately, and providing financial commentary related to plant performance.
• Support the timely preparation of periodic and ad-hoc management reporting for various stakeholders, including plant directors and division management.
• Analyze financial data and create financial models for decision-making.
• Perform variance analysis around labor, materials, and overhead, identifying trends and recommending areas for improvement.
Finance Business Partnership & Operational Support:
• Engage with Operations developing strong relationships to better understand and anticipate needs; provide analytical and financial guidance in support of plant operational improvement plans.
• Review and analyze manufacturing site and product line profitability, partnering with operations to understand drivers of performance and improvement actions.
• Analyze investment projects and growth opportunities to drive the best uses of capital; develop and present data driven insights to help the business make more informed decisions.
• Analyze operational variances working to identify underlying business issues; provide input to improve performance and drive better decision making.
• Knowledge share around KPI performance, providing input to drive better decision making.
• Monitor inventory levels, working with operations to provide data driven insight on optimizing balances and minimizing obsolescence risk.
• Continuously look to identify, challenge, recommend, and support process improvements, standardization, automation, and optimization.
• Provide continuous finance training (e.g., financial metrics and concepts, decision-making framework) to the plant operations teams.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications):
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a Business related field.
• 4+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, or financial analysis.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organizational skills to anticipate, plan, organize, and self-monitor workload.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating the ability to express ideas and exchange information clearly and concisely across functions and levels within the organization
• FP&A background with strong knowledge of cost accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.
What Will Put You Ahead:
• Finance business partner mindset: Consistently creates insightful, high-quality work product; is accountable, organized, resourceful and responsive
• Strong customer focus with analytical, financial, and economic thinking skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and a passion for discovery that leads to new insights and ways of doing things
• Proficiency in financial ERP systems (Glovia, SAP, OneStream, or other large ERP systems).
• Advanced MS Excel capability (e.g., Pivot Tables, V & H Lookups, creating charts and tables, data modeling, financial returns, forecasting, graphs, charts, macros).
• Familiarity with business / data analysis and data visualization tools (e.g. Python, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL).
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize work in a dynamic environment, embrace and lead change, and seek to improve processes.
How We Work:
At ADS Finance, every team member is viewed as an owner and entrepreneur, taking initiative and responsibility for the success of the locations and businesses they support. We foster a culture where priorities are guided by value creation, and continuous coaching is provided to enhance capabilities and drive innovation.
How You Succeed:
Success in this role is achieved by cultivating and maintaining trusted business partnerships. You will leverage a strong analytical mindset to challenge and improve existing processes, driving value and efficiency. Your role also involves coaching our operations partners, empowering them with the insights needed for sound economic decision-making and providing robust support for project initiatives. Embrace opportunities for personal growth and contribute to the collective success of the team by embodying a spirit of principled entrepreneurship.
The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed in this position. This description is not intended to be interpreted as a complete list of all duties, responsibilities or requirements for this position.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a leader in aerospace and defense electronics, AirBorn, a Molex company, is a leader committed to engineering and manufacturing excellence.
With a legacy of over six decades, we take pride in our team of passionate and skilled professionals who play a pivotal role in developing and manufacturing mission-critical products. Our cutting-edge solutions are not only found on Mars, in fighter jets, submarines, and in the far reaches of space. We understand the mission critical environments in which our products operate, and our commitment to excellence drives us to ensure their unwavering reliability. Whether you are a seasoned industry expert or have fresh talent seeking to soar in your career, we invite you to embark on a journey of creativity, growth, and achievement with us.
Discover how your talents can take flight and make an impactful contribution to our mission-critical endeavors at AirBorn!
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).