Blue Ops is hiring a Senior Manager to join our growing team in Minneapolis! Our firm specializes in strategic FP&A advisory, operational finance, and business analytics for small to mid-sized businesses and private equity portfolio companies.
This Senior Manager will serve as a site-level financial leader for our manufacturing clients, acting as a Plant Controller responsible for cost accounting, operational reporting, and financial performance management. This position is ideal for someone with deep manufacturing finance experience who thrives in a hands-on, analytical, and fast-paced consulting environment.
THE ROLE
As a Senior Manager on the Financial Operations team, you will lead plant-level finance engagements, owning end-to-end financial processes, driving operational insights, and enhancing profitability. You’ll partner with client plant leadership to establish financial discipline, improve reporting accuracy, and strengthen cost control initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as the Plant Controller for assigned manufacturing clients, managing all aspects of site-level financial operations.
- Own cost accounting processes that include standard costs, BOMs/routings, overhead absorption, PPV, and labor/usage variances.
- Ensure accurate and timely COGS reporting, inventory reconciliation, and monthly close activities.
- Lead variance analysis (price, usage, efficiency) and present insights to operations and leadership teams.
- Partner with client plant management to improve production efficiency, reduce scrap, and enhance yield performance.
- Maintain and validate ERP/MRP data to ensure accuracy across cost and inventory elements.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning at both plant and corporate levels.
- Connect financial results to operational performance, supporting Lean / Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Lead small project teams and mentor analysts supporting client engagements.
WHAT IT TAKES
Blue Ops is a hands-on, growth-minded organization built on collaboration and accountability. We move quickly, dive deep, and partner closely with our clients to deliver lasting impact.
To succeed in this role, you should be:
- Experienced in manufacturing finance or cost accounting, with strong analytical and operational understanding
- A confident communicator who can bridge finance and operations
- Comfortable navigating complex, data-driven environments and adapting on the fly
- Process-oriented, detail-focused, and driven to identify continuous improvement opportunities
- Excited to lead client relationships and deliver measurable financial results
- Able to travel periodically to client sites
WHAT YOUR RESUME SHOWS
- 7–15 years of relevant professional experience, ideally within manufacturing finance, FP&A, or cost accounting
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA or CMA preferred)
- Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, cost accounting, and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities
- Experience partnering cross-functionally across operations, supply chain, and leadership
- Exposure to Lean / Continuous Improvement practices
- Private equity or multi-site manufacturing client experience preferred
Top Skills
What We Do
At Xerxes Global, we believe in bold. We get excited about the BIG ideas – the ones that disrupt or break open an industry to change everything. We develop innovative new ways to find insights that shake business to its foundations, new approaches to management that dare to ask “what if you could?,” and new ways of presenting information to unite industries like never before. Xerxes Global unites different business that share a common goal: to never stop Getting Better. By working together, our businesses share resources, experts and knowledge in order grow in Bolder directions than they could have on their own. These are the companies that come together to make Xerxes Global. Individually, each of Xerxes Global’s companies are innovative industry leaders. Together, we’re gamechangers. Our Portfolio of Brands: EBM Software: Making it Easier to Be Better Catalyst: FP&A Cloud Diligent: Where M&A Happens Blue Ops - Private Equity's Most Trusted Partner ARC - Association for Retail & Consumer Professionals Studio X - is a fully integrated video production suite located close to the heart of Minneapolis, MN. Servicing agencies, production companies & brands, Studio X works across all media channels & platforms to help our clients think bolder and be better.
