Hardware Finance Manager
Owns end-to-end finance for an assigned hardware COGS and inventory area, including forecasting, close, variance analysis, systems, and controls. The role requires 8+ years of consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience and deep expertise across at least two relevant domains.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end.
- Own forecasting, close, and business variance analysis for the assigned scope.
- Provide hardware leadership with variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking signals connecting business and supplier decisions to inventory, cash, COGS, and margin.
- Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish financial data, systems, and dashboards.
- Ensure data integrity and governance through definitions, ownership, validation checks, controls, and review processes.
- Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes for reliability and scalability.
- Build cross-functional relationships and identify material risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
- Develop scenarios and recommendations for leadership decision-making.
- Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance.
- Drive alignment without formal authority and communicate complex financial issues clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Develop expertise in an adjacent COGS or inventory domain as priorities evolve.
Requirements
- 8+ years of consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
- Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple relevant hardware-finance domains, with ownership in at least two.
- Experience leading ambiguous cross-functional initiatives with material impact.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Experience building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.
- Ability to identify accounting, control, data, and source implications and engage appropriate owners.
- Ability to lead through influence and improve others’ effectiveness.
Skills
Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Hardware Cogs, Inventory Planning, Manufacturing Variance Analysis, Bom Costing, Supply Chain Finance, Financial Systems, Data Governance, Internal Controls, Process Automation, Scenario Analysis, Stakeholder Management
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