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What You'll Do as an Operations Finance Supervisor

As a Operations Finance Supervisor at Lewis Services, you'll:

Reporting to the VP Finance & Accounting, you'll design and maintain critical cost accounting, forecasting, financial reporting, and analytics functions that support operational decision-making and business development. You'll partner closely with Field Operations, Accounting, and Financial Planning & Analysis to identify profitability drivers, understand the true cost to serve, and prompt desired behaviors to enhance profitability.Develop and maintain standard costing, job costing, and cost accounting processes to support planning, forecasting, and operational controls.

• Lead weekly forecasting and production analysis, including review of overhead coverage and operational cost drivers. Prepare weekly operational productivity and profitability reporting versus established targets.
• Conduct monthly budget-to-actual variance reviews and communicate key financial trends to stakeholders with clear commentary and follow-up actions.
• Partner with field operations to gather reporting inputs, explain variances, uncover answers, and develop actionable insights.
• Perform customer profitability, total cost-to-serve, and business modeling analysis to support pricing and bidding.
• Create, develop, prototype, and test dashboards and internal reporting tools.
• Identify, recommend, and lead improvements to ERP, operational, and reporting systems to enhance data collection and reporting.
• Lead and support special projects and perform other duties as assigned by management.
• Operate initially with no immediate direct reports, with the potential to take on direct reports as the role expands with the business.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related business field.
• 4-6 years of progressive accounting or finance experience in manufacturing, cost accounting, or operational environments.
• Strong understanding of project and cost accounting methodologies.
• Ability to serve as a primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, manage expectations, and deliver results that align with company goals.
• Ability to understand the business operating model and how processes align with company objectives, while managing end-to-end workstreams with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize multiple deadlines as priorities change.
• Ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, propose data-based solutions, and take tactical ownership of transformation plans.
• Clear, concise, tactful, and professional oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn emerging software systems and independently configure and test systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook, and relevant business systems.

Preferred:

• MBA.
• Experience in a lead technical role.

Physical Demands

Ability to:

• Regularly stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time, reach, and perform repetitive computing tasks.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb stairs, and lift or move up to 25 pounds.
• Travel occasionally by ground and/or air transportation, including overnight stays.

Environmental Conditions:

• Regularly - Office environment
  Noise level is usually moderate

Tools & Equipment

Equipment and systems may include:

Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook

ERP, operational, reporting, and other relevant business systems

Dashboards and internal reporting tools

What We Offer

Non-Union Benefits:

Competitive pay $110,000 - $140,000

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Paid training and certifications

Health, dental, vision & HSA options

401(k) +

Paid time off and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Lewis Tree Service is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing equal opportunity for both applicants and employees. Lewis Tree Service prohibits unlawful discrimination or harassment of employees and applicants based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age (40+), religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic, all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, apprenticeship, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Lewis Tree Service's practices and policies are administered under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Lo que haras como Supervisor/a de Finanzas de Operaciones

Como Supervisor/a de Finanzas de Operaciones en Lewis Services:

Reportando al Vicepresidente de Finanzas y Contabilidad, disenaras y mantendras funciones clave de contabilidad de costos, pronosticos, informes financieros y analisis que respaldan la toma de decisiones operativas y el desarrollo del negocio. Trabajaras estrechamente con Operaciones de Campo, Contabilidad y Planificacion y Analisis Financiero para identificar los factores que impulsan la rentabilidad, comprender el costo real de prestar el servicio y fomentar comportamientos que mejoren la rentabilidad.

• Desarrollar y mantener procesos de costos estandar, costos por trabajo y contabilidad de costos para respaldar la planificacion, los pronosticos y los controles operativos.
• Liderar el analisis semanal de pronosticos y produccion, incluida la revision de la cobertura de gastos generales y los factores de costos operativos. Preparar informes semanales de productividad y rentabilidad operativa en comparacion con los objetivos establecidos.
• Realizar revisiones mensuales de variaciones entre presupuesto y resultados reales, y comunicar las principales tendencias financieras a las partes interesadas con comentarios claros y acciones de seguimiento.
• Colaborar con Operaciones de Campo para recopilar informacion para los informes, explicar variaciones, encontrar respuestas y desarrollar conclusiones practicas.
• Realizar analisis de rentabilidad por cliente, costo total de prestacion del servicio y modelos de negocio para respaldar precios y licitaciones.
• Crear, desarrollar, prototipar y probar paneles de control y herramientas internas de informes.
• Identificar, recomendar y liderar mejoras en los sistemas ERP, operativos y de informes para mejorar la recopilacion de datos y la generacion de informes.
• Liderar y apoyar proyectos especiales y realizar otras tareas asignadas por la gerencia.
• Desempenarse inicialmente sin personal directo a cargo, con la posibilidad de asumir supervision directa a medida que el puesto se amplie con el crecimiento del negocio.

Lo que aportas:

• Licenciatura en finanzas, contabilidad o un campo empresarial relacionado.
• De 4 a 6 anos de experiencia progresiva en contabilidad o finanzas en entornos de manufactura, contabilidad de costos u operaciones.
• Solido conocimiento de las metodologias de contabilidad de proyectos y de costos.
• Capacidad para actuar como punto principal de contacto para las partes interesadas internas, gestionar expectativas y entregar resultados alineados con los objetivos de la empresa.
• Capacidad para comprender el modelo operativo del negocio y como los procesos se alinean con los objetivos de la empresa, administrando flujos de trabajo de principio a fin con supervision minima.
• Solidas habilidades de organizacion, atencion al detalle y capacidad para priorizar multiples plazos a medida que cambian las prioridades.
• Capacidad para analizar problemas complejos, identificar causas raiz, proponer soluciones basadas en datos y asumir responsabilidad tactica sobre planes de transformacion.
• Habilidades de comunicacion oral y escrita claras, concisas, diplomaticas y profesionales.
• Capacidad para aprender rapidamente sistemas de software nuevos y configurar y probar sistemas de manera independiente.
• Dominio de Microsoft Office, incluidos Excel y Outlook, y de sistemas empresariales pertinentes.

Preferido:

MBA o maestria en administracion de empresas.

Experiencia en un puesto tecnico de liderazgo.

Exigencias fisicas

Capacidad para:

Permanecer de pie, caminar, sentarse durante periodos prolongados, alcanzar objetos y realizar tareas repetitivas en computadora de manera regular.

Agacharse, arrodillarse, ponerse en cuclillas, gatear, subir escaleras y levantar o mover hasta 25 libras ocasionalmente.

Viajar ocasionalmente por transporte terrestre y/o aereo, incluidas estadias nocturnas.

Condiciones ambientales:

Regularmente - Entorno de oficina
El nivel de ruido suele ser moderado

Herramientas y equipos

Los equipos y sistemas pueden incluir:

Microsoft Office, incluidos Excel y Outlook

Sistemas ERP, operativos, de informes y otros sistemas empresariales pertinentes

Paneles de control y herramientas internas de informes

Lo que ofrecemos

Beneficios para puestos no sindicalizados:

Salario competitivo $110,000 - $140,000

Plan de Propiedad Accionaria para Empleados (ESOP)

Capacitacion y certificaciones pagadas

Opciones de seguro medico, dental, de vision y HSA

401(k) +

Tiempo libre remunerado y Programa de Asistencia al Empleado (EAP)