MSC Finance Manager, Chicago Plant

Job Description
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As the Finance Manager for the Chicago Plant, you will provide leadership and oversight across financial planning, controls, and operational reporting. You will play a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring compliance, and partnering with plant leadership to achieve business targets. In the Controller's absence, you will assume full responsibility for the plant's finance function.
How You Will Contribute

• Partner with the Plant Controller to provide strategic financial guidance to plant leadership, translating insights into actionable recommendations that support net productivity and capital expenditure targets.
• Lead the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Own the monthly process for manufacturing financials, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and continuous cycle-time improvement.
• Manage the plant's risk and opportunity profile, driving forecast accuracy to control spending and achieve financial results.
• Lead cost and budget ownership across the plant, ensuring proper governance, training, and accountability around cost centers.
• Drive the loss analysis and loss elimination agenda, coordinating the master planning process and aligning with the cluster's productivity targets.
• Monitor site and cluster KPIs - waste, overtime, fixed costs, overheads - and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement.
• Ensure robust inventory management procedures, BOM and MR accuracy.
• Support the Engineering team with appropriation requests and post-investment evaluations.
• Supervise and develop the plant finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
• Maintain a strong internal controls environment to ensure accuracy of financial data and compliance with corporate policies.

What You Will Bring

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning, manufacturing cost accounting, and internal controls - including analyzing and reporting financial performance across all KPIs and supporting investment decisions and cost management.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of CPG/manufacturing dynamics. Relevant experience in a large regional or global corporation.
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including business partnering, team management, and the ability to influence and communicate across functions and levels.
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET with the ability to leverage technology and ERP systems to improve efficiency.
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement aligned with company values and external regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• 7-10 years of progressive finance/accounting experience, with significant time in a manufacturing environment.
• Prior supervisory or team leadership experience required.
• Strong expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.
• Experience with ERP systems; S/4HANA experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

Location:
Chicago Plant
7300 S Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60629
Salary and Benefits: The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
Mondelēz International is the world's largest chocolate, biscuit and candy maker, and the second largest gum maker. Our North American and U.S. headquarters are in East Hanover, New Jersey, about 25 miles outside of New York City. We have Canadian offices in Toronto and Montreal. We have a strong North American manufacturing presence where we make our well-loved snacks like Oreo cookies, belVita breakfast biscuits, Trident gum and Cadbury chocolates. Our East Hanover location also houses our global research and development center for our consumer-favorite cookie and cracker brands.
USA:
Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance.
Canada:
If you are applying to a position in Canada, accommodations for applicants with disabilities or other grounds protected by human rights legislation are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the employment selection process. For all internal and external applicants who require accommodation in the recruitment and selection process please contact 847-943-5460 for assistance/support.
Job Type
Regular
Finance Planning & Performance Management
Finance