Finance Operations Manager

Manager, Finance Operations

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Employment Type: Full-Time

Compensation: $120,000-$145,000 base salary

Aerio Partners is representing a large-scale manufacturing organization in the search for a Manager, Finance Operations to serve as the primary finance partner supporting a major operating site.

This is a hands-on site-finance leadership role combining FP&A, operational finance, financial oversight, cost management, performance improvement, capital analysis, risk assessment, and partnership with site leadership.

The position requires someone who can understand the full financial and operational performance of the site, identify issues and opportunities, and work directly with leadership to improve profitability, efficiency, and decision-making.

What You’ll Do

• Provide financial oversight and analytical support for a manufacturing operation
• Lead site budgeting, forecasting, and recurring financial planning activities
• Monitor actual financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and operating plans
• Analyze operational and financial trends, risks, and performance gaps
• Partner closely with plant/site leadership on operational and financial decisions
• Identify cost-saving, efficiency-improvement, and profit-enhancement opportunities
• Analyze manufacturing processes and connect operational activity to financial outcomes
• Support capital-investment analysis and evaluate proposed operational investments
• Prepare financial reporting, analysis, and presentations for site and finance leadership
• Identify financial, process, and control risks and recommend corrective actions
• Support compliance with internal finance policies and established financial controls
• Drive financial and process improvements across the operation
• Provide analysis supporting strategic and operational initiatives
• Evaluate performance improvement opportunities across costs, productivity, and profitability
• Support and supervise finance team members as appropriate
• Work cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain, and site leadership
• Communicate financial performance, risks, opportunities, and recommendations clearly to management

What We’re Looking For

• Approximately 5-10 years of progressive manufacturing finance, plant finance, FP&A, operations finance, or related financial-management experience
• Experience supporting or leading finance for a manufacturing facility, plant, operating site, or business unit
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and financial-reporting experience
• Demonstrated ability to identify and execute cost-saving, efficiency, and profitability improvements
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and operational performance
• Experience analyzing capital investments and business cases
• Strong ability to identify financial, operational, and control risks
• Experience partnering directly with site, plant, or operations leadership
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel capability
• Leadership, supervision, or team-development experience
• Ability to operate independently as a hands-on finance leader close to the business

Ideal Background

The strongest candidates will have progressed through plant finance, manufacturing FP&A, operations finance, site controllership, or similar environments where they were responsible for more than reporting.

The ideal profile has directly influenced business performance by challenging assumptions, identifying risk, improving forecasting, supporting capital decisions, finding cost and efficiency opportunities, and partnering with operational leadership.

This is not intended to be a purely corporate FP&A role. The individual needs to be comfortable operating inside the business and understanding how manufacturing and site-level decisions affect financial performance.