Operations Finance Manager

What is a day in the life of a Manager, Operations Finance?

• Cross-functional collaboration: frequent partnership with operations, sales, and finance leadership to solve important business problems
• Financial Reporting: creating, improving, and presenting monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages 
• Strategic Finance: complex financial and operations modeling to assist operations leadership in strategic decision-making
• New Ventures: running analysis on new 3PL business opportunities for Pattern Fulfillment, including deal review, approval, and monitoring of KPIs against targets
• Leadership: Leading and developing other team members

What will I need to thrive in this role?

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Business, or other related field  
• 5+ years of relevant experience, ideally in both finance and operations/supply chain
• Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to interact with a variety of stakeholders
• Proven experience solving complex financial and operational problems related to inventory, capital expenditures, warehousing, transportation, labor planning, etc.


What does high performance look like?
• Building scalable, repeatable processes and tools to quantify and optimize the financial impact of Pattern’s operations
• Effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders, including strong executive presence
• Strong leadership, ability to influence, develop, and drive results through team members
• Ability to to manage the details of a complex issue and also take a broader view to connect the dots and understand the big picture
• Capacity to consume complex data sets and drive actionable insights
• Global mindset. Ability to work effectively with global partners to drive improved financial operational performance across the globe in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Australia


What does success look like in the first 30, 60, 90 days?


In the first 30 days:


• Familiarize yourself with all aspects of Pattern’s business with a focus on understanding the people, processes, and interdependencies between finance and operations
• Work with the sales engineering team to review new Pattern Fulfillment deals to determine profitability and monitor the financial success of existing deals


By day 60:


• Create and present the operations monthly financial reporting package
• Build a repeatable process to assess the profitability of our new 3PL business on a monthly basis
• Improve rigor of analysis and forecasting in warehouse network planning
• Own analysis and make strategic recommendations related to inventory efficiency, warehouse optimization, labor planning, etc.
• Demonstrate ability to build relationships with Pattern leadership and collaborate and connect the dots across finance, operations, and accounting


Within the first 90 days:


• Provide actionable suggestions on how to drive savings, improve processes, and build tools to automate and scale our work
• Own forecasting and building of Pattern’s operating plan for the coming year
• Work effectively with the accounting and product management teams to implement scalable invoicing processes for new 3PL Pattern Fulfillment customers
• Work with operations leadership to design and implement an improved tactical operational planning process that captures available capacity, product mix, labor requirements, trucking capacity, etc.


What is the team like?


• You will report to the Director of Operations Finance and interface regularly with the VP of Finance and VPs of Operations. You’ll also work collaboratively with the FP&A and Commercial Finance teams, as well as global finance and operations partners in Asia, Europe, and Australia. Lastly, you’ll be involved in growing and scaling the Operations Finance team to handle our rapid growth.


Sounds great! What’s the company culture?
We are looking for individuals who are:


• Game Changers- A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
• Data Fanatics- A data fanatic is someone who recognizes problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
• Partner Obsessed- An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritizes the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
• Team of Doers- Someone who is a part of team of doers uplifts team members and recognizes their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.


What is the hiring process?


• Initial phone interview with Pattern’s talent acquisition team
• Video interview with a hiring manager
• Onsite interview with a panel of department leaders
• Professional reference checks
• Executive review
• Offer