Finance Business Partner
Hypertherm Associates is seeking a highly impactful, collaborative, and forward-thinking Finance Business Partner to support our Global Supply Chain team as a strategic advisor to Supply Chain leadership. Partnering closely with Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and Manufacturing, this role provides financial insights and decision support to drive operational excellence, cost optimization, working capital improvement, and profitable growth, improve financial performance, and ensure achievement of company objectives.
As the Finance Business Partner, you will:
- Be a trusted finance partner to Supply Chain leadership, turning financial insights into decisions that improve profitability, productivity, and cash flow.
- Lead annual planning, forecasting, long-range planning, and monthly financial reviews. Bring clear insights on performance, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership, and support Management and Board presentations.
- Build financial models that guide investments, sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, make-versus-buy decisions, and footprint optimization.
- Partner with Operations, Procurement, Logistics, and Cost Accounting to reduce costs and improve margins. Use standard costing, product cost analysis, manufacturing variances, and business cases to support productivity and lean initiatives.
- Improve working capital and cash conversion by optimizing inventory investments, turns, reserves, and excess or obsolete stock—while balancing on-hand inventory needs.
- Make performance visible through executive reporting and dashboards covering inventory turns, working capital, material inflation, freight and logistics costs, supplier performance, manufacturing productivity, cost savings, and service levels.
- Evaluate capital investments and automation projects with business cases, ROI, NPV, and payback analysis. Track results to confirm expected benefits.
- Strengthen financial controls, reporting compliance, and data integrity. Support audits and inventory controls and streamline processes across Supply Chain.
Who you are and the experience you bring:
- 7+ years of progressive finance experience in FP&A, operations finance, supply chain finance, or manufacturing finance.
- Experience partnering with Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, or Manufacturing leadership.
- Strong knowledge of cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory management, and working capital principles.
- Experience in a global manufacturing environment.
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence effectively at all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated track record of driving decisions through data-driven insights, sound analysis, and actionable recommendations
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Preferred experience that differentiates you:
- MBA or master’s
- Skills with Oracle Planning tools such as Oracle EPM, Hyperion, Essbase
- Oracle ERP
- Matrix reporting environment
Location: Hanover, NH (Relocation assistance available)
Besides our incredible culture, some of the benefits you can expect with a career at Hypertherm:
- Global, 100% employee-owned company for over 50 years
- Profit-Sharing
- Employee Stock Ownership
- Five days/year Community Service Time
- Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship
- Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy
Sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.
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Skills:
Building Trust, Business Outcomes, Business Performance Analysis, Business Process Documentation, Confidentiality, Creating Action Plans, Data-Driven Decision Making, Deadline Management, Financial Acumen, Give Feedback, Internal Customer Management, Relationship Building, Risk Assessments, Statistical Data Analysis, Task Management, Team Collaboration, Trend Analysis, Trusted Advisor Relationships
