This position will work closely with the CEO and Management Team to build consensus and bring groups together ensuring alignment. This position will maintain the close-knit culture and maximize each individual’s potential growth within the organization.

• Develop, in collaboration with the CEO, an annual operating plan that supports both tactical & strategic objectives for the company. Ensuring continuous lines of communication with the CEO are present.
• Lead & define the financial strategy, manage financial capital, and communicate capital requirements and implications of business decisions to the CEO. Represent the company with customers and banks.
• Drive the annual forecasting and budgeting process and monthly reporting. Proactively manage cash flows in a leveraged environment and ensure that management decision making follows from information that is timely, accurate, and relevant.
• Conduct meaningful proactive root cause analysis to improve operational and manufacturing processes focusing on management of working capital and use of financial resources; Provide useful financial insights to help leadership make better decisions on operational execution by establishing better internal control processes required to manage and grow the business.
• Ensure the company has the proper operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures to meet operational and financial targets; provide the CEO with detailed/accurate understanding of the overall operating condition of the company; Communicate in a manner that ensures the company’s focus on the creation of enterprise value through the disciplined attention to increasing cash flow while simultaneously optimizing the operations.
• Plans, directs, and manages the entire operation, ensuring the development and implementation of cost-effective and efficient processes to meet current and future business requirements.
• Impeccable integrity. Team focused culture of being respectful of others and respected by peers.
• Must be able to communicate job expectations internally; plan, monitor, appraise, and review job contributions; plan and review compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures. ​
• Ability to create Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that maintain and maximize the overall operations. This is a solutions-minded culture team of doers.
• Passion for meaningful analysis and reporting.  Set operational and/or performance goals for each department which are realistically aggressive, achievable, and tied to long-term goals. Monitor department performance against goals to ensure that progress is being made. Ability to retrieve and analyze data from the current ERP systems.
• Overall responsibility for the successful launch of significant new program awards.
• Operational finance: Monitor and manage activities in the areas of revenue and sales growth; expense, cost, and margin control; monthly, quarterly, and annual financial goal management.
• Assess, evaluate and streamline purchasing/inventory management.

Leadership and Management:

• Must be a trusted partner to the CEO and Management Team.
• Approachable management style with a proven ability to influence people that inspires confidence within the management team. Empower the team to solve issues creatively and be a sounding board to the Management Team to help take them to the next level.
• Coach the Management Team to fully understand the Company’s mission, vision and values ensuring there is cultural alignment. Lead by example; Trustworthy, direct, honest, reliable and authentic.
• Participation in Townhall meetings while being prepared to articulate issues and answer questions.
• As a proficient leader, s/he will understand the importance of effectively communicating “the why” a team is to do something to build trust and create buy-in.
• Passionate about building relationships with people internally and externally; high level of respect and professionalism.
• Strong communicator: ensure all department heads are fully informed of operational objectives. Conduct regular meetings with department heads to ensure that priorities are clear, and coordination is good.