Operations Finance Manager

Job Description:

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers

We are looking for an Operations Finance Manager to join our talented team in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The Operations Finance Manager serves as the key Financial business partner to the Site(s) Operations lead(s) while interfacing with FP&A, Cost Accounting, and Commercial. This position may be responsible for multiple site Platforms or locations and may travel as necessary to support accordingly. The position is responsible for delivering insightful financial guidance to operations, conduct budgeting & forecasting, provide value-added business analysis, and identifying and analyzing continuous improvement opportunities to achieve P&L and Balance Sheet targets for the platform(s) / site(s).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide overall financial leadership to assigned operating units, ensuring the achievement of operational and financial objectives.
• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to business leaders, driving revenue growth, profitability, inventory optimization, cash flow management, and capital investment while identifying key risks and opportunities.
• Provide financial guidance, business decision support, and oversight of site-level financial planning, analysis, and internal controls.
• Act as a strategic business partner to the Platform Operations Leader and plant leadership team, collaborating to achieve P&L targets and drive business performance.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis activities while supporting business development initiatives.
• Drive the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and monthly forecasting processes to ensure accurate and predictable financial results, including revenue, cost of goods sold (COGS), headcount, and profitability.
• Provide local financial support for Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), Product/Process Readiness Reviews (PSR), project evaluations, and lifecycle reviews.
• Support capital expenditure requests (CARs), including development, financial justification, analysis, and ongoing monitoring.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce effective internal control policies and procedures across assigned platforms and sites.
• Analyze operating results, identify financial and operational risks and opportunities, and recommend corrective actions to improve overall business performance.
• Reconcile operational and financial performance, developing detailed variance analyses and financial bridges to explain results and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with Manufacturing Operations and Cost Accounting to ensure accurate allocation of material, labor, and overhead costs to production jobs.
• Participate in the month-end close process, including journal entry analysis, financial reconciliations, operating report reviews, coordination with Cost Accounting on necessary adjustments, and preparation of financial flash reports and performance walks.
• Prepare monthly financial trend reviews and provide insights in partnership with Operations leadership.
• Drive inventory optimization initiatives, including Days on Hand (DOH), inventory turns, valuation accuracy, and appropriate reserve management and disposition.
• Support Cost Accounting with the annual standard costing process.
• Provide financial analysis and support for standard cost rollouts for new products, including reviewing Bills of Materials (BOMs) and manufacturing methods.
• Prepare and analyze weekly financial and operational performance reports against established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Analyze product-level profitability and identify opportunities to improve margins and cost efficiency.
• Lead site-level continuous improvement initiatives, including opportunity identification, performance measurement, and results reporting.
• Partner with Operations to develop, implement, and monitor Lean initiatives that drive operational efficiency and cost improvements.
• Provide ongoing financial and business support to site leadership, contributing to day-to-day operational and strategic decisions.
• Prepare ad hoc financial analyses and business insights to support senior management decision-making.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field required; MBA or Master’s degree strongly preferred
• 5 + years of finance or accounting experience with at least 3 years in manufacturing environment
• Knowledge and awareness of local governmental statutes and Free Trade Zone regulations (PROCOMER, Ministerio de Hacienda, etc.)
• Experience with Lean Accounting a plus
• Analytical and data driven
• Strong Excel skills and experience with ERP systems such as Epicor, JD Edwards, or SAP
• English language proficiency required (B2+)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate with cross-functional business partners.
• Experience with Workday, Adaptive for Financial Planning or systems such as Hyperion, Cognos, TM1 a plus.

COMMENTS:

This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all‑inclusive of the work to be performed. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.

Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.