Senior Director Finance Operations - PACS

The Senior Director Finance Operations is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for Packaging and Customization Services (PACS) with a focus on finance, budgeting, materials management, and procurement. This position will assist the senior management team by establishing strategic financial plans, operating policies, and procedures to ensure the achievement of business unit objectives.

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Primary Duties:

• Oversees the financial aspects of the PACS business unit including governance and controls, financial reporting, planning, and budgeting
• Ensures pricing tools are accurate and applied appropriately by the business unit. Reviews compliance with governance policies and other internal approval processes
• Reviews customer agreements for new business opportunities to identify potential risks to GEODIS and recommends guardrails to mitigate
• Designs and implements visibility tools to provide operational leadership with KPI data needed to manage the business
• Manages business unit financial issues by adding analysis and support to strategic and operating-level issues
• Provides leadership and guidance to operational teams; intervenes as needed to manage risk and drive performance improvement for GEODIS
• Ensures appropriate financial and management systems are in place to achieve business unit objectives
• Conducts financial reviews of new business implementations to validate scope and other pricing parameters
• Oversees the Materials Management and Procurement functions to optimize on-hand levels of packaging materials and supplies

Other Duties

• As required and assigned

Minimum Requirements:

Experience:

• Minimum 8 years experience in the supply chain industry with a focus on financial management is preferred
• Experience with P&L management
• Experience with procurement software is preferred
• Knowledge of processes as it relates to management systems
• Knowledge of critical process as it relates to supply chain operations and standards
• Knowledge of cost analysis reporting and analysis
• PC literate with experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Access and Excel

Essential Skills:

• High level of business acumen and can think on their feet in a sales environment.
• Understands financial impact and how to make money by solving client problems.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manual
• Ability to travel to client sites to assemble information and ensure understanding of the business
• Ability to communicate with various levels of the organization as well as various levels of the customer’s organization
• Ability to influence others
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• Capable of leading High Complexity engagements and inter-functional work teams 

Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.  The employee is required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  The employee is regularly exposed to ambient lighting and temperate climate conditions.

[1]The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

[2] Job Duties as documented in this job description are considered “Essential Functions” and have been created by the standards of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) require that employees be able to perform “Essential Functions” of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the “Essential Functions”.