Manager, Finance - Manufacturing

Crusoe

$135K — $165K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong manufacturing finance background with knowledge of Cost Accounting.
  • 6+ years of progressive finance experience, including 2+ years with business unit P&L.
  • Experience in capital budgeting and resource planning.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills to create complex operational scenarios.
  • Ability to translate operational data into financial insights and narratives.
  • Proactive, self-driven, and adaptable in fast-paced environments.
  • Bachelor's in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Act as an on-the-floor finance partner to Manufacturing leadership, linking operational drivers to financial impacts.
  • Collaborate with Project Managers and engineering teams to ensure financial models reflect project status accurately.
  • Build and maintain production cost models, tracking unit costs and driving margin expansion.
  • Oversee inventory health and implement proactive vendor strategies.
  • Lead monthly and quarterly financial reviews and variance analyses.
  • Identify risks and opportunities to enhance profitability and efficiency, partnering with operational teams.
  • Own the annual budget, monthly forecast, and long-range planning processes.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Employer contributions to HSA account.
  • Paid parental leave and life insurance.
  • Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
  • 401(k) plan with up to 4% company match.
  • Daily meals allowance and commuter benefits.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Join Crusoe's Finance team, reporting to the Director of Finance, Manufacturing. You will serve as an embedded "on-the-floor" operational and strategic finance partner to Manufacturing leadership, translate operational drivers into clear financial impacts and actionable business recommendations. We're seeking a commercially-minded and results-driven finance professional who is inspired to challenge the status quo and act as a co-pilot in steering the business towards its financial goals.

What You'll Be Working On:
  • Operational Finance Partnership: Act as a hands-on, "on-the-floor" partner to Manufacturing leadership; translate factory-floor operational drivers (e.g., production efficiency, utilization, uptime) into real-time P&L impacts and actionable recommendations.
  • Project Collaboration & Visibility: Collaborate closely with Project Managers and engineering teams to gain deep visibility into production schedules, project lifecycles, and operational bottlenecks, ensuring financial models accurately reflect the project status.
  • Production Unit Economics: Build and maintain detailed production cost models from the ground; track unit costs, Bill of Materials (BoM) assumptions, and total cost-to-produce to drive margin expansion.
  • Inventory & Lifecycle Risk Management: Oversee inventory health, E&O reserves, partnering with operational and supply chain leads to implement proactive vendor strategies; drive the seamless transition of unit costs into COGS.
  • Driver-Based Analysis: Translate operational drivers (e.g., production efficiency, utilization, operational uptime) into P&L impacts and actionable recommendations
  • Performance Management Reporting: Lead monthly and quarterly financial reviews, budget & forecast variance analysis, and build clear, actionable performance narratives for Exec, Board, and Investor materials
  • Profitability and Efficiency Initiatives: Proactively identify risks & opportunities to improve margins and operational efficiency, partnering with operational teams to develop improvement plans.
  • Planning & Forecasting: Own annual budget, monthly forecast and long-range planning processes, collaborating closely with department heads to ensure financial plans are ambitious, actionable, and aligned with corporate targets
  • Cost Accounting & Product Costing: Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate standard costing, variance analysis, and inventory valuation; deliver insights on cost drivers to support margin management and investment decisions
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Liaise across Finance, Accounting, Treasury, to meet reporting and control standards
  • Process & Control Integrity: Ensure compliance with corporate policies, internal controls, and audit requirements


What You'll Bring to the Team:
  • Onsite across Manufacturing locations at least 2 days/week, primarily Arvada; some light travel necessary
  • Strong manufacturing finance background with working knowledge of Cost Accounting
  • 6+ years of progressive experience in finance, with at least 2+ years supporting a business unit P&L
  • Capital budgeting & resource planning experience
  • Advanced financial modeling skills and ability to build driver-based models, sensitivity analyses, and complex operational scenarios from the ground up.
  • Strong business acumen; able to connect financial analysis to operational and strategic levers.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational data into clear financial insights and executive-ready narratives.
  • Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment. You don't wait to be asked; you readily identify problems, instinctively seek solutions, and take ownership of outcomes.
  • Experience in a high-growth technology, infrastructure, energy, or data center environment strongly preferred.
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills with ERP systems (e.g., Acumatica, Oracle, SAP) and financial planning/BI tools experience
  • Bachelor's in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related analytical field; MBA, CFA, or CPA a plus.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with project management and technical teams to translate project-specific updates into financial impact analysis.


Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA account
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health & wellness support
  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Additional perks & programs specific to location


Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $135,000 - $165,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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