Senior Finance Manager - Global Supply Chain

Position Summary

Culligan Quench is seeking a strategic and hands-on Senior Manager of Finance to lead financial planning, analysis, and decision support for our Global Supply Chain.

This role is critical in driving performance through insightful financial leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous process improvement. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Supply Chain finance, inventory and fixed asset accounting, operational FP&A, cross-border business operations and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) controls. This individual will play a critical role in managing the financial implications of rental asset acquisition, refurbishment and deployment across multiple U.S. distribution centers and international sourcing operations. They must have experience developing driver-based financial forecasts and building annual operating and capital budgets.  

Experience evaluating total landed cost, cost-to-serve economics, inventory carrying cost, working capital productivity, and operational risk exposure is highly desirable. The position is located in Dallas, TX with periodic travel to our company headquarters in King of Prussia, PA. This role reports to the Vice President, Supply Chain with a dotted line to the CFO of Culligan Quench. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Serve as the finance business partner for global supply chain, logistics, procurement and warehouse operations  

• Lead financial planning, forecasting budgeting and monthly performance reviews for all U.S. supply chain departments 

• Drive operational visibility and improved forecasting into several key areas including: 

• • Inventory and Accounts Payable (AP) 

• Specific focus on in-transit and un-invoiced inventory 

• • Tariffs 

• • Freight 

• • Rental Capex 

• • Refurbishment Capex 

• • Vendor rebate programs 

• Provide finance functional support to the Korea, Canada and Puerto Rico business units working in close partnership with the respective business unit GMs and finance managers; ensure consistency in financial reporting and policy implementation  

• Identify opportunities to improve inventory productivity and reduce working capital requirements including partnering with the operational team on sourcing/deflation opportunities in Korea 

• Enforce compliance with Culligan Transfer Pricing Policy requirements and assist Accounting team with accuracy of intercompany sales transactions and profit eliminations 

• Improve transparency into the intercompany sales process including increasing line of sight into pricing opportunities and the sales and profit elimination process 

• Support the implementation of the new inventory planning and DRP tool and improve connectivity to the forecasting and budgeting process 

• Assist in the implementation of a new, company-wide policy on Excess and Obsolete (E&O) inventory and partner with the operational team to identify and track progress against programs/opportunities to reduce E&O inventory levels 

• Design, document, maintain and continuously improve internal controls over inventory, fixed assets, rental assets, procurement, warehouse operations and supply chain financial processes 

• Partner with Accounting, Internal Audit, External Audit, Operations and IT teams to ensure SOX-ready compliance including remediation efforts required for control deficiencies  

• Lead initiatives to strengthen financial governance, reduce operational risk and improve process standardization across U.S. warehouses 

• Partner with the operational teams to improve accuracy and compliance of key inventory transactions and identify and implement process improvement, where necessary 

• Support executive decision making through scenario modeling and influence operational leaders through data-driven recommendations and financial insights 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (MBA or CPA strongly preferred) 

• 8+ years of progressive experience including significant exposure to supply chain finance, operations finance or manufacturing finance 

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and to partner with senior operational leaders 

• Experience with FP&A forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes including building bottom-up budgets from operational and transactional cost drivers 

• Strong understanding of inventory accounting and working capital management 

• Understanding of procurement, inventory planning, logistics, warehousing, distribution operations, and inventory risk management 

• Strong financial modeling, forecasting and analytical skills  

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel  

• Experience with FP&A tools (e.g., Hyperion) and ERP systems is a plus 

• Strong business acumen, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly 

• Self-motivated, highly organized, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, remote environment