Finance Manager

FOX PACKAGING seeks a hands-on Finance Manager to lead day-to-day onsite execution of the Finance and Accounting function and to work closely with the CFO and executive leadership. The role emphasizes stronger finance controls, consistent month-end close, governance over pricing, team development, and support for migrating from QuickBooks and manual tracking to Made2Manage (M2M).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day onsite leadership and coordination for the Finance and Accounting team during the CFO’s onsite and remote weeks.
• Maintain clear priorities, deadlines, and accountability across recurring accounting, reporting, pricing, control, and support activities.
• Act as the first escalation point for routine workflow issues, resolving items or elevating exceptions quickly.
• Partner with team members to understand workload, remove process friction, and improve role clarity.
• Step into selected tasks when leverage is needed, a bottleneck must be cleared, or a critical process requires protection.
• Serve as the primary onsite Finance contact for company owners and executive leadership for documents, approvals, questions, and financial follow-up.
• Convert physical documents, handwritten requests, and informal owner handoffs into traceable Finance workflows with defined ownership and follow-through.
• Ensure critical items are scanned, routed, retained, and completed rather than remaining dependent on paper or individual memory.
• Prepare concise exception-based updates for the CFO on items requiring decision, escalation, or leadership attention.
• Own the close calendar, including dependencies, due dates, completion tracking, and escalation of late inputs.
• Coordinate account reconciliations, journal-entry support, AR/AP reviews, inventory/WIP close activities, and management reporting deadlines.
• Partner with technical accounting resources to keep the close accurate, documented, and completed on a predictable cadence.
• Establish practical controls around credit-card support, expense documentation, approvals, and other recurring close bottlenecks.
• Provide hands-on close support when needed without displacing technical ownership held by the appropriate accounting resource.
• Define process ownership, train backup coverage, and maintain SOPs, deadlines, and controls for critical recurring Finance activities.
• Identify person-dependent, paper-dependent, or overly manual processes and lead practical improvement initiatives.
• Support forward-looking digital record retention for financial support, approvals, and audit documentation.
• Collaborate with Finance, ERP/IT, and operating teams to reduce duplicate entry, unnecessary trackers, and recurring manual reporting.
• Help build formal control processes for inventory, excess and obsolete material, fixed assets, AR/AP, and balance-sheet integrity.
• Support the CFO by strengthening Commercial Finance and Sales collaboration focused on profitable growth.
• Maintain pricing governance, quote discipline, margin thresholds, and escalation paths for exceptions.
• Coordinate pricing administration and coverage models so approved prices flow accurately through M2M, quotes, orders, and invoicing.
• Maintain working proficiency in pricing workflows to provide coverage when primary and backup owners are unavailable.
• Support customer, product, freight, discount, terms, and margin analysis used in bids, RFQs, renewals, and commercial decisions.
• Help Sales evaluate pricing and commercial alternatives, including clear financial impact.
• Coach team members toward stronger ownership, judgment, accountability, and process discipline.
• Evaluate workload using transaction volume, cycle time, exception frequency, complexity, and business value rather than historical job boundaries.
• Cross-train critical activities to reduce key-person dependency and improve vacation/absence coverage.
• Help create development paths for employees to grow into higher-value finance, accounting, commercial, analytical, or systems work as Fox grows.
• Partner with the CFO on role design, performance expectations, development plans, and future staffing needs.
• Support the planned migration of Fox Solutions accounting and related workflows from QuickBooks and manual trackers into Made2Manage (M2M).
• Map current-state processes, define control requirements, test future workflows, and validate reporting before legacy processes are retired.
• Promote data quality at the source by clarifying departmental transaction ownership and reducing recurring cleanup by Finance/ERP.
• Support improved working capital, costing, commercial, operational, and management reporting as the function matures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including demonstrated experience leading teams and managing cross-functional responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of month-end close, reconciliations, internal controls, AR/AP, and balance-sheet management.
• ERP experience required, with Made2Manage (M2M) experience strongly preferred.
• Experience improving accounting processes, documenting workflows, and reducing manual work.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience supporting margin analysis or costing.
• Demonstrated ability to manage priorities, deadlines, and accountability across Finance activities.
• Comfort working directly with company owners, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
• English (Required) and Spanish (Required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Manufacturing, distribution, or other transaction-intensive operating experience strongly preferred.
• CPA or CMA helpful but not required.
• Leadership background is listed as preferred.

Technology Exposure

• Made2Manage (M2M)
• QuickBooks
• Power BI
• ERP / IT

Compensation and Location

• Location: McAllen, TX (onsite)
• Salary: $110,000.00 to $125,000.00 per year
• Work location: In person

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

First-Year Success Profile

• Finance operates effectively during the CFO’s remote weeks without routine issues requiring constant CFO intervention.
• Month-end close becomes predictable, with clear deadlines, ownership, and fewer late inputs.
• Critical Finance processes have documented owners, backups, SOPs, controls, and escalation paths.
• New financial records are retained digitally and are retrievable without reliance on paper files.
• Manual workarounds and duplicate trackers are measurably reduced as M2M, Power BI, and other systems are used more effectively.
• Pricing administration is stable enough that the CFO is no longer the routine backup for standard price updates.
• Commercial Finance and Sales use improved margin visibility, pricing discipline, and customer-economic awareness.
• The Fox Solutions M2M migration is supported through disciplined process mapping, testing, and change management.
• The team has clearer roles, stronger accountability, and practical development paths toward higher-value work.

Application Screening

Application question: Do you have a strong understanding of month-end close, reconciliations, internal controls, AR/AP and balance-sheet management?