What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Finance Manager Operations position at Novolex?
Company Overview:
Key Responsibilities:
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen
Why Choose Us?
Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.
Our Sustainability Commitment
The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.
Job Description:
Job Summary:
The Senior Operations Finance Manager will lead financial oversight, consolidation, and strategic project support for six plastic bag manufacturing plants. This role serves as a key finance business partner to plant leadership and operations, driving financial performance through disciplined forecasting, cost control, capital project evaluation, and standardized reporting. The position requires strong consolidation expertise, hands-on operational finance experience, and the ability to manage complex cross-plant initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Leadership & Consolidation
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial consolidation for six manufacturing plants, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
- Prepare consolidated P&L, gross margin, and operating cost analysis with clear insights into plant-level and enterprise performance.
- Develop standardized financial reporting, dashboards, and KPIs across all plants.
- Ensure alignment with corporate accounting policies, internal controls, and audit requirements.
Operations Finance & Cost Management
- Partner with plant managers and operations leaders to analyze manufacturing costs, variances, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives across raw materials, conversion costs, logistics, and fixed costs.
- Support pricing, margin analysis, and customer profitability initiatives specific to plastic bag products.
- Monitor working capital metrics, including inventory turns and slow-moving or obsolete inventory.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning
- Lead the annual budget and rolling forecast processes across all six plants.
- Evaluate volume, mix, and cost assumptions; identify risks and opportunities.
- Support long-range planning with scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis.
- Provide variance explanations and actionable recommendations to senior management.
Capital & Project Oversight
- Financial lead for capital investments, automation projects, and process improvement initiatives across plants.
- Build business cases, ROI analyses, and post-investment reviews for capital and strategic projects.
- Track project spend, timelines, and financial benefits realization.
- Ensure cross-plant alignment and financial discipline on major initiatives.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor to plant leadership, operations, supply chain, and engineering teams.
- Drive best practice sharing and financial standardization across plants.
- Support integration of new plants, lines, or systems as needed.
- Mentor and develop plant staff or analysts, fostering a strong operations finance culture.
Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 8–12 years of progressive finance experience, including operations or manufacturing finance.
- Proven experience consolidating financial results across multiple plants or business units.
- Strong understanding of standard costing, manufacturing variances, and capital project finance.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP systems and BI tools.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to influence plant and senior leadership.
Preferred
- MBA, CPA, or CMA designation.
- Experience in plastics, packaging, or high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Prior responsibility for multi-site operations or shared services environments.
- Experience supporting Lean, continuous improvement, or automation initiatives.
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong attention to detail
- Ability to manage complexity across multiple locations.
- Strong business partnering and leadership presence.
- Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
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Company Benefits:
What You'll Get From Us
Benefits
With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.
Community Engagement
At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.
Training and Development
We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.
Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.
Formerly Pactiv Evergreen