Operations Finance Manager

Job Category:

Finance

Job Family:

Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description:

As an Operations Finance Manager, you will serve as a seasoned finance professional and strategic business partner across U.S. Operations. You will use advanced analytics, financial expertise, and business insight to identify performance drivers, shape decisions, and improve profitability and operational effectiveness. You will lead end-to-end finance processes and cross-functional initiatives, influence senior leaders and business partners, champion technology, and continuous improvement, and safeguard the integrity of financial reporting.

This is a regional position with the ability to work hybrid, approximately three days per week from home with the remainder at a plant site. The right fit must be flexible regarding their weekly schedule and willing to travel to any Missouri facility as needed. Candidates must live within 100 miles of all Southwest Missouri locations, including Carthage, Monett, and Mount Vernon, to accommodate same-day trips. Overnight travel is estimated at 10% to 15% annually, primarily to the Clinton, Missouri site.

What you'll do:

• Strategic business partnership and influence: Build trusted relationships with plant, operations, category, and corporate leadership. Advise senior leaders on financial and operational matters, challenge assumptions, and align stakeholders on priorities, resource decisions, and actions that improve business results.
• Analytics, insights, and technology leadership: Lead the design and advancement of analytics, dashboards, reporting, and decision-support tools that benchmark performance and reveal underlying business drivers. Champion scalable technology, automation, and responsible AI adoption that improves finance capability and decision quality.
• Enterprise financial analysis and scenario planning: Own complex financial analyses, forecasting, and scenario modeling that support corporate, category, and operations objectives. Translate findings into clear recommendations and measurable actions within the broader business strategy.
• Profitability and performance improvement: Identify and lead opportunities to reduce costs, improve EBITDA margin, strengthen working capital, and increase operational effectiveness. Partner across multiple departments and sites to move opportunities from diagnosis through implementation and benefit realization.
• U.S. Operations management reporting: Lead key elements of U.S. Operations management reporting, including executive-ready financial storytelling, performance-driver analysis, and progress reporting for corporate savings initiatives. Establish consistent approaches that improve transparency and accountability.
• U.S. obsolete inventory process ownership: Manage the U.S. obsolete inventory FP&A process end to end, including reporting, reserve oversight, governance, and cross-functional actions to improve inventory health and working capital.
• Accounting and costing standards: Evaluate accounting and costing practices across U.S. business units, resolve moderately complex issues, and lead moderate to significant improvements in processes, controls, and standards. Recommend and help implement enterprise-consistent practices where standards are absent or variation exists.
• Site FP&A leadership and continuity: Independently lead critical site FP&A processes, including product costing and financial close support. Provide experienced finance leadership across Missouri locations when emerging issues, vacancies, or absences create a business need.
• Controls, compliance, and risk management: Safeguard company assets and reporting integrity by assessing financial risk, strengthening internal controls, and ensuring adherence to GAAP and applicable requirements.
• Project and talent leadership: Lead end-to-end regional and cross-functional finance projects. Organize project work, review deliverables, coach other finance professionals, and share expertise that strengthens team capability without requiring direct people-management responsibility.

What you need to succeed:

• Candidates must live within 100 miles of all Southwest Missouri locations, including Carthage, Monett, and Mount Vernon, to accommodate same-day trips and must be willing to meet the position's travel requirements.
• A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related business discipline is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Typically, seven or more years of relevant FP&A, operations finance, accounting, or related experience. Manufacturing cost accounting experience is strongly preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of operations finance or a related specialty, with working knowledge of accounting, costing, FP&A, internal controls, and manufacturing or industry practices.
• Demonstrated success independently owning a wide range of moderately complex projects or end-to-end processes that materially affect departmental, functional, or multi-site results.
• Proven ability to diagnose moderately complex, cross-functional problems; integrate financial and operational information; and implement moderate to significant improvements in processes, systems, reporting, or controls.
• Strong business judgment and influence, including the ability to advise senior leadership, challenge assumptions constructively, and align with partners across departments on new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Exceptional communication and financial storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations, decisions, and measurable business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end projects by organizing work, reviewing deliverables, coaching project contributors, and managing competing priorities with limited supervision.
• Advanced analytical and technology capabilities, with intellectual curiosity and a continuous-learning mindset. Willingness and ability to responsibly adopt modern analytics, automation, and AI tools to improve financial effectiveness.

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Eligible partners will receive:

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. When you join our employee-owned company, you’ll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one. In addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 8% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year. That’s a company contribution of around 16% in retirement savings annually. That’s hard to beat!
• Earn bonus pay. You’ll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Ready to make a move? Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for a U.S. Salaried position.
• Childcare costs. Get up to $5,000 annually to help you with the cost of childcare. Monthly contributions toward childcare expenses, including independent babysitters.
• Earn extra money for taking care of yourself. Eligible partners can earn a Wellness Incentive and receive an employer‑funded Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to use on fitness, mental health, and other lifestyle expenses.
• Pursue development that’s relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
• Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
• Experience caring like you’ve never experienced it before. We have a program that’s completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It’s called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.
• Benefits that support your whole life. Visit Schreiber – Care for you to see everything Schreiber offers to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future.

​For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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About Us

Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day. Based in North America, we’re a customer-brand leader in cream cheese, natural cheese, process cheese, shelf-stable beverages and yogurt. Our more than 10,000 employees and presence on five continents enable us to be an essential ingredient in our customers’ success.

With annual sales of more than $7 billion, we partner with the best retailers, restaurants, distributors and food manufacturers around the globe. We also recognize our responsibility to do good in the world and are driven to make a difference in everything we do.

Life & Culture - We call ourselves partners – not employees – and there’s a good reason behind that. Our work is more than just a job. Our common goals drive and energize us as we work together to be the best we can be.

Caring is a huge part of who we are. We not only help each other grow; we take care of each other along the way. Whenever a partner is experiencing a hardship, it’s common for others to take the initiative to organize fundraisers to help support them through our Partners Helping Partners program. We also care about our communities and want to help make them better places to live every day.

Who are we looking for? Our people are truly the heart of our company, and we’re on a journey together. It’s about more than a job. We work hard to find great people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and provide opportunities to help them grow. Like a family, we care deeply about each other