Finance Supervisor
Bluefors
- Syracuse, NY
- $85,000-95,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supervise and mentor staff, including training on Global Shop, Excel, and GAAP principles.
- Ensure compliance with financial guidelines, company policies and relevant legal regulations.
- Manage departmental workload and ensure timely completion of deliverables.
- Conduct regular check-ins with staff to provide feedback, reinforce performance, and address issues.
- Meet weekly with the Plant Controller to provide departmental updates.
- Prepare and review financial statements, balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow.
- Analyze and validate financial results, including gross margins by product line.
- Review financial variances (month-over-month, year-to-date, budget vs. actual).
- Perform financial modeling, forecasting, ROI analysis, and project reporting.
- Develop operating and capital budgets; support long-range planning through 3-year financial forecasts.
- Ensure adherence to financial guidelines, company policies, and legal/regulatory requirements.
- Review and approve journal entries, bank reconciliations, and G/L account reconciliations.
- Oversee audit readiness, tax compliance, cost control, and budgeting processes.
- Serve as final reviewer for financial reporting prior to submission to the Plant Controller or Chief Business Officer.
- Develop dashboards and reports within Global Shop to enhance financial reporting.
- Conduct process constraint analysis and recommend improvements for efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Identify and implement best practices to strengthen the finance function.
- Partner with cost accounting and department heads to monitor project progress and financial impacts.
- Provide input to guide overall financial strategy and decision-making.
- Participate in project and cross-functions meetings to support business initiatives.
- Assist the Plant Controller and Chief Business Officer as needed.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
- Ability to work independently, follow directions that are given and manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to troubleshoot departmental issues.
- Must have excellent analytical skills with a sound understanding of accounting principles.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work successfully with cross-functional teams to develop and implement appropriate accounting procedures.
- Strong communication skills; able to present financial concepts to a non-financial audience.
- High ethical standards and commitment to confidentiality.
- Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate across functions.
- Knowledge and excellent experience with ERP systems, QuickBooks Online, Excel and other database, payroll, and word processing software.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting from an accredited College or University required (CPA or CMA preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of financial statement analysis required
- 3 years' accounting experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent is preferred