Senior Finance Director

Our Work Matters

At Kindeva we make products that save lives, ensuring better health and well-being for patients around the world.

The Impact You Will Make

In this role, you will lead all finance and accounting functions for Kindeva’s St. Louis drug and device manufacturing operations. You will support the Site GM/VP in strategic decision-making, oversee standard costing, financial reporting, month-end closes in compliance with US GAAP, and assist with audits.

Additionally, you will manage budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.

You will partner with the Site VP/GM and senior leadership to drive financial strategy, performance metrics, and operational improvements. You will also partner with share services to ensure accurate site accounting for fixed assets, payroll, treasury, and general ledger entries while collaborating with FP&A to prepare financial narratives for executive and board presentations.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide the strategic vision, tactical execution, and leadership necessary to enable the company’s growth initiatives and enhance operations to leverage market opportunities.  Serve as a key business leader in daily & weekly site leadership meetings, driving decisions on hiring, quality, purchasing, planning and production.
• Lead, manage, and coach Kindeva’s site finance and accounting team, overseeing activities such as account reconciliations, month-end close, and inventory/cost accounting, and ensuring compliance with US GAAP and FAR.
• Ensure adherence to Kindeva corporate finance/accounting processes and controls, providing feedback and recommendations to improve policies or procedures.
• Work with FP&A, Business Development, and Client Relations with financial model cost and capacity assumptions to support new client opportunities, develop divisional tier pricing structures, and update annual cost/price in line with customer contract commitments.
• Provide insights and establish predictive analytics of the division's financial performance to stakeholders, identifying areas for improvement in the division's P&L and balance sheet targets.
• Working with FP&A, prepare site P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, key performance indicators, site scorecards, department spending analysis, and provide financial commentary on any gaps in performance to budget and forecast.
• Analyze material, labor, and overhead variances to budget and forecast, providing monthly and quarterly commentary on the financial P&L.
• Provide financial ROI analysis on capital and CI projects, tracking capital spending and ROI achievements monthly.  Support business initiatives to identify areas of CI opportunity.
• Lead the annual site budget planning process and present the budget package with business assumptions through collaboration with the senior leadership team and S&OP process.
• Lead the annual standard costs update, providing cost impacts to the sales and margin analysis to the commercial team.  Oversee costing data necessary for governmental reporting.
• Support all internal and external audits, ensuring site compliance with US GAAP and company policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business; MBA preferred. CPA or CMA is a plus. 15+ years in cost accounting, general accounting, or finance roles.
• 5+ years leading a finance or accounting department.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience preferred. Skills:
• Comprehensive understanding of cost accounting and inventory valuation under US GAAP
• Financial Modeling • Budget/Forecasting • SOX and financial controls implementation
• FAR-31 and CAS Compliance knowledge, a plus
• ERP experience in a manufacturing environment (Microsoft Dynamics preferred)
• Advanced Excel skills and knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 Attributes:
• Strong ability to build financial acumen within the business, fostering a culture of financial literacy and accountability.

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