Operations Finance Manager
At this time, this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship or support for work authorization.
Now Hiring: Operations Finance Manager
Why You’ll Love This Role:
- Culture: You’ll work with a team that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Impact: Every day presents new opportunities to grow, lead, and make an impact across our business units.
- Salary: Your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. We anticipate this role to pay a base salary between $103,000 - $110,000 per year, but actual base pay will depend on the successful candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.
- Schedule: Ability to work a flexible schedule to support deadlines or cross-functional collaboration; typically your schedule will be 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday.
What You'll Do:
- Financial Planning & Modeling: Lead comprehensive financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes; build complex financial models and variance reports for key accounts to support executive stakeholders.
- Template Optimization & Governance: Own the governance, optimization, and accuracy of budget and forecast templates across warehousing, transportation, and freight forwarding business lines.
- Business Reviews & Variance Analysis: Participate in monthly business reviews and conduct rigorous variance analyses comparing actual financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and historical baselines.
- Operational Finance Partnership: Serve as a financial business partner to facility operators, coaching site leaders on cost controls and helping build business cases for continuous improvement projects.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with operations, accounting, and business unit finance teams to understand cost drivers, business structures, and operational logistics trends.
- Strategic Issue Escalation: Proactively identify financial issues, recommend performance-enhancing strategies, and present findings to leadership.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required; an MBA is preferred.
- Experience: 6–9+ years of progressive financial planning & analysis (FP&A) experience, including deep involvement in budgeting processes.
- Operational & Industry Knowledge: Direct experience working alongside operations teams; logistics/supply chain industry experience is a major plus.
- Technical Mastery: Advanced understanding and proven use of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and AI tools (Gemini/Claude). SAP experience is preferred.
- Language Skills: Bilingual proficiency in Korean is preferred.
- Soft Skills & Mindset: Excellent communication and presentation skills (experience presenting to senior leadership is a plus), creative problem-solving ability, and a collaborative, cross-functional approach.
What's In It for You:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), Life insurance, tuition assistance, PTO and MORE!
- Career Growth: Opportunities for advancement within a growing company with a performance record that continues to climb.
- Hybrid Flexibility: Work from our Des Plaines, IL corporate office 4 days per week with hybrid flexibility built around business needs.
- Strategic Role: A Salary, Exempt position offering high visibility and direct interaction with site leaders and executive management.
CJ Logistics About Statement:
At CJ Logistics America, we know that we do our best work when we have an inclusive and diverse team, where we can draw on our different life experiences to help us deliver innovative solutions for our customers. We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, equity, and an inclusive workplace. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized people tend to only when they check every box. So if you think you might be a good fit for the role, but don't necessarily meet every single requirement on the job posting, we still encourage you to apply.
CJ Logistics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination and or/harassment of any type, including but not limited to discrimination and or harassment based upon race, religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, pregnancy or relation medical conditions, childbirth, breastfeeding, parental status, veteran and/or military statue, disability (physical or mental) medical condition, genetic information or characteristics, political affiliation, domestic violence survivor status, marital status, or other characteristics prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Additionally, CJ Logistics participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations.