Manager, Financial Control

About CooperSurgical:

CooperSurgical is a leading fertility and women's healthcare company dedicated to putting time on the side of women, babies, and families at the healthcare moments that matter most in life. As a division of CooperCompanies, we're driven by a unified purpose to enable patients to experience life's beautiful moments. Guided by our shared values – dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing – our offerings support patients throughout their lifetimes, from contraception to fertility and birth solutions, to women's and family care, and beyond. We currently offer over 600 clinically relevant medical devices to healthcare providers, including testing and treatment options, as well as an innovative suite of assisted reproductive technology and genomic testing solutions. Learn more at

Job Summary:

The Manager, Ops FP&A will be responsible for supporting typical finance rhythms including month-end close, quarterly financial planning, annual budgeting, standards development, and strategy. This individual will be a key contributor in operating cadences utilized to enhance business decision-making at the site level such as leading manufacturing financial reviews, driving performance, evaluating decision-making, and streamlining processes. Additionally, the Manager, Ops FP&A will have oversight into the professional development of an Analyst.

This role is a key, hands-on position serving as the finance leader covering the manufacturing site in Alajuela, Costa Rica. This position reports into the Director of Global Manufacturing Finance with a dotted line into the Costa Rica Plant Director and will be responsible for FP&A, Finance business support, and costing activities. This role will have 1 direct report.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience within a manufacturing environment and a strong understanding of standard cost is a must
• Proactive individual with an aptitude to learn who strives for continuous improvement
• Ability to analyze results, summarize underlying drivers, provide interpretation of results to management, and execute necessary actions
• Direct, hands-on experience in creating, tracking and controlling actual, forecast and budget metrics
• A strong mindset who isn't afraid to challenge the norm and think outside the box
• Ability to drive actions to completion in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience of being a strong business partner to multiple functional leaders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Broad technical accounting expertise, including good working knowledge of US GAAP
• Ability to work with those at all levels of the organization
• Strong acumen and experience within an ERP system (Navision, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar)
• Strong acumen and experience with a Financial Consolidation system (HFM, Adaptive Planning or similar)
  Excellent Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams skills (pivot tables, lookups, sumifs, graphs/charts, etc)

Work Environment:

• This role is hybrid with travel as required to visit other Cooper sites
• Multi-cultural environment with global interactions
  Individual is expected to be on site 3 days per week to support a manufacturing site

Experience:

Minimum 10 years FP&A experience within manufacturing operations. Related experience within accounting function is a plus.

Education:

B.S. Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits. Please visit us at to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of CooperSurgical about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at CooperSurgical via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of CooperSurgical, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by CooperSurgical for this position and a valid agreement with CooperSurgical is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the CooperSurgical agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

• Be the finance business partner to the Costa Rica team to drive performance and improve decision-making
• Support the Director of Global Manufacturing and VP of Operations with insightful financial analysis
• Develop an Analyst including training, knowledge-sharing, goal setting, and professional skills
• Manage the annual budget process, quarterly forecast preparation, and development of accurate standard costs in accordance with CSI timelines for site of ownership
• Support the Global Long Range Strategic Financial Planning as required
• Work cross functionally with commercial and demand planning to understand forecasted demand, plant capacity, and inventory levels to execute production plan
• Support monthly close process and functional management reviews to ensure accurate financial reporting
• Analyze variances to standards, identify root cause, and execute remediation actions
• Drive analysis that supports management decision-making, such as capital expenditure, return on investment, cost saving initiatives, new product development, inventory trends, Absorption, KPIs, what-ifs etc.
• Provide accurate & timely management reports to lead operating cadences for Costa Rica
• Develop and implement process improvements to streamline functional activities
• Support management ad-hoc projects and analysis
  Is an integrated member of the CSI Global Operations FP&A team and the local site management team

Travel:

Minimal travel of 2x-3x per year to other Cooper locations