Manager, Finance Process Excellence

JOB SUMMARY

The Manager, Finance Process Excellence will lead initiatives to standardize, streamline, and scale finance processes across North America. This role partners with Finance, Operations, Shared Services, IT, and business leaders to drive continuous improvement, automation, and transformation across the finance function while supporting organizational growth and operational excellence.

The successful candidate will combine strong finance knowledge with process improvement expertise to drive sustainable change, improve operational performance, and support the organization's growth strategy. This position plays a key role in advancing finance transformation efforts through process standardization, automation, data analytics, and best practice implementation across manufacturing and corporate finance functions.

This is a remote position but will require travel to our Oakbrook, IL and Saint Joseph, MI locations several times per month, so candidates should live in a commutable distance to those locations.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Continuous Improvement & Transformation

• Lead and manage finance process improvement initiatives across North America.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and scale finance processes.
• Drive Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies to improve efficiency, accuracy, and customer service.
• Facilitate process mapping, root cause analysis, and redesign workshops with stakeholders.
• Develop business cases and implementation plans for improvement initiatives.
• Establish KPIs and performance metrics to measure process effectiveness and track improvement results.

Finance Process Optimization

• Evaluate and improve end-to-end finance processes, including:
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
• Order-to-Cash (O2C)
• Record-to-Report (R2R)
• Fixed Assets
• Inventory Accounting
• Cost Accounting
• Financial Planning & Analysis processes
• Support standardization of polici