Operations Finance Manager
Swisher International, Inc
Jacksonville, FL
For the past 162 years, Swisher has been an industry leader known for its iconic products and commitment to high quality standards. With a rich history, Swisher serves adult consumers through a diverse range of businesses, including Swisher Sweets Cigar Company, Helme Tobacco Co., Hempire, Rogue Holdings, and Drew Estate: The Rebirth of Cigars. We have a passion for people and helping them build rewarding careers. If you’re ready to create excitement and drive what’s next in the industry, we’d love to hear from you.
The Operations Finance Manager leads standard costing and inventory integrity for manufacturing and supply chain operations. This hands-on role maintains standard cost structures, ensures accurate ERP costing inputs and inventory transactions, and delivers variance analysis and reporting that improves margin, working capital, and operational decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and maintain standard cost structures for manufactured and purchased products, including materials, labor, overhead, and third-party manufacturing inputs
- Lead cost-related components of budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for plant operations, including standard cost updates and rate refreshes
- Manage and review inventory transactions including work orders, assemblies, transfers, receipts, and adjustments to protect inventory integrity and cost of sales accuracy
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to costing methodology, ERP configuration, reporting, and internal controls
- Analyze manufacturing and inventory variances and communicate key drivers and corrective actions to operations and finance leadership
- Partner with operations, supply chain, and procurement to ensure accurate bills of materials, routings, overhead rates, and other costing inputs within the ERP system
- Monitor inventory valuation, excess and obsolete exposure, and margin trends; recommend actions to improve working capital and profitability
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, including inventory- and COGS-related journal entries, reconciliations, and account reviews
- Support physical inventory counts and inventory audit procedures; investigate variances and ensure timely resolution
- Provide functional leadership, guidance, and review to team members responsible for transactional inventory and cost activities, without direct reporting responsibility as applicable
- Prepare and distribute operations finance reporting, including monthly and full-year estimates, with clear insights on cost, productivity, and operational performance
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 5+ years of cost accounting or operations finance experience in a manufacturing environment, including standard costing and inventory accounting
- Demonstrated experience owning standard cost maintenance and variance analysis in a standard cost environment
- Strong knowledge of inventory valuation, inventory transaction flows, and close requirements for inventory and cost of goods sold
- Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills in Microsoft Excel, including building repeatable templates and reports
- Ability to lead through influence and provide review, guidance, and technical support to transactional teams without direct people management
- Strong attention to detail and internal control mindset, with the ability to identify root causes and implement corrective actions
- Strong business partnership skills with operations and supply chain, translating financial drivers into practical actions that improve performance
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to present analyses clearly to diverse audiences
- A valid U.S. Passport or the ability to obtain one
- Travel: Up to 20%
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA and/or CMA
- MBA or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Experience working in an ERP environment; ability to maintain or validate costing inputs such as bills of materials, routings, and overhead rates
- Experience supporting multi-site and/or third-party manufacturing environments
What we offer
- Base salary and bonus program
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance effective on date of hire
- Generous 401(k) Plan
- Defined Contribution Plan
- Paid vacation and paid holidays
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career!
Official Contact Information
- Email: All official emails will come from an @Swisher.com address
- Website: Verify job listings and contact details on https://careers.swisher.com
Important: We will never contact you via Teams, Zoom, or Google Meets. If you qualify for an interview, the proper meeting method will be shared with you beforehand. Confidential information should only be shared through secure methods outside of email.
About the Company
Swisher International, Inc
Meet the company behind the cigar that needs no introduction. We may be best known for one of the world’s best-selling cigars — Swisher Sweets — but our portfolio includes a variety of cigars, cigarillos and smokeless tobacco products for discerning adult consumers. Since 1861, Swisher has manufactured quality tobacco products. Today, we ship more than 2 billion cigars per year to over 70 countries. Included in that number are our popular Swisher Sweets Original and Diamonds. These two superstars are the #1 and #2 best-selling large cigars in the U.S., they account for more volume than the next five competitive large cigar items combined.
But to keep things fresh and remaining an industry leader after all these years requires constant innovation — whether it’s adding to our portfolio, introducing blends, or improving our operations through automation, acquisition and expansion. We are proud that our efforts have been recognized by Convenience Store News with their Category Captain Award for six consecutive years.
At the end of the day, we attribute our success to never losing sight of the commitment that gave us our start. At Swisher, we’re proud of our people and the contributions we’ve made to our industry and our community.