Senior Director, Finance Operations – Manufacturing

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +12 more states.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary Finance partner for Operations and Manufacturing within IDT and Aldevron.

• Link operational execution to financial results, enterprise value, and strategic decision-making.

• Develop and oversee financial operating mechanisms addressing cost, capacity, quality, delivery, inventory, working capital, and profitability.

• Create and enhance frameworks for product costing, standard costing, cost accounting, manufacturing variance, COGS, absorption costing, inventory valuation, BOM/routing cost, and profitability.

• Collaborate with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Commercial, R&D, and Corporate Finance.

• Facilitate capital deployment, capacity expansion, manufacturing network planning, automation, ERP implementation, and investment decisions through financial analysis and business cases.

• Enhance forecast accuracy, governance of operational KPIs, executive reporting, and business review processes.

• Guide Finance through transformation, integration, organizational redesign, and initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Build, mentor, and cultivate an Operations Finance team along with Finance Business Partner capabilities across IDT and Aldevron.

• Report directly to the Chief Financial Officer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline.

• Over 15 years of progressive Finance leadership experience in support of manufacturing, operations, supply chain, or technical operations.

• More than 5 years of experience leading leaders or senior teams.

• Experience in multi-site operational finance within biotech, pharmaceutical, CDMO, medical device, life sciences, or similar regulated manufacturing settings.

• Proficiency in product costing, standard costing, cost accounting, COGS management, manufacturing variance analysis, absorption costing, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis.

• Knowledge of P&L management, manufacturing cost structures, inventory optimization, capital deployment, capacity investment decisions, forecasting, and S&OP processes.

• Familiarity with complex product portfolios, capacity constraints, major capital investment needs, and transformation or integration agendas.

• Experience with ERP systems, enterprise reporting, executive KPI dashboards, and advanced financial modeling.

• Willingness to travel domestically and occasionally internationally, up to 25%.

• MBA or CPA is preferred.

• Experience in gene reading and writing segments, including knowledge of CDMO business models, is a plus.

• Understanding of the Danaher Business System (DBS) and continuous improvement methodologies is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonus/incentive pay.

• Paid time off.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k).