Operations Finance Leader

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking an experienced Operations Finance Lead to join our Halsey OR Consumer Products Manufacturing facility. In this role, you will create value for the organization by providing actionable manufacturing analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and business partnering with our operations teams to create value and close gaps. We are recruiting contribution motivated candidates with strong critical and entrepreneurial thinking skills who demonstrate initiative, natural curiosity, effective communication skills, and are driven to transform.

In this role you will be able to use your expertise to drive operational improvements and support strategic decision making. This role is a critical strategic partner on the site's leadership team and will have the opportunity to mentor and knowledge share process improvements and optimization with other operations finance leaders/team members in the business. This role will also have the potential to supervise an additional financial analyst onsite after initial onboarding.

Location:

This is an onsite role supporting our Consumer Products mill in Halsey, OR. We are seeking local applicants, or candidates that are willing to relocate to the area. Relocation assistance is offered for this position.

The Halsey Mill has been in operation for 56 years and is one of the larger employers in Linn County. Owned by Georgia-Pacific, the site boasts more than 380 employees and produces retail tissue and towel. Our Georgia-Pacific Corporate HQ is located in downtown Atlanta, GA.

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The Operations Finance team is made up of individuals across all of our CPG operations locations and our corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA. We are a diverse group and have a passion for analytics, financial business partnering, and lifelong learning.

We focus on supporting our manufacturing teams with financial insights and reviews, forecasting, variance analysis, benchmarking, and identifying cost savings opportunities. We serve as the primary financial business partners for our sites and our division. We are supported by our partners in Accounting and Financial Centers of Excellence for Inventory, Internal Financial Controls, and Capital.

Everyone is expected to be an owner and entrepreneur of the locations and businesses they support. Direction to priorities and coaching will be provided to build capability, but the individual will not be micromanaged.

Build and develop trusted business partnering relationships with our operations and business teams. Develop in depth knowledge of the manufacturing operation as well as collaborate and build knowledge with peers at other sites.

• Provide financial and economic decision-making support through preparing and interpreting financial results, cost and variance analysis, operational gap analysis, capital planning, and other ad-hoc analysis while creating real, long-term value for the organization
• Develop strong relationships with the operations team to better understand and anticipate their business needs
• Obtain a solid working knowledge of the primary drivers of operations and their impact on financial performance
• Contribute to the monthly forecasting and annual planning processes
• Contribute to long-term strategic planning process
• Execute operations bet tracking and performance analysis
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to seek and share knowledge, identify opportunities for improvements, challenge the status quo, and propose solutions
• Partner effectively with our Accounting, Controls, Product Costing, and Commercial Finance teams to support variance analysis, and general mill questions
• Prepare and analyze product cost in comparison to industry and internal benchmarks
• Advance our Principles-Based Management culture by applying and reinforcing the company's Core Values and Principles

• Career experience in a financial analysis, accounting, cost accounting, operations finance, or related role(s) that demonstrates understanding and application of financial…