Senior Finance Manager, SEF GSC

Based in New Britain, Connecticut with remote flexibility, the Senior Finance Manager for SEF GSC at Stanley Black & Decker leads costing, data analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to drive profitability across the SEF network. This role blends advanced costing methodologies with actionable insights and strategic leadership to support pricing, capital decisions, and operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify the right business questions, gather and evaluate descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive information, and generate and communicate insights, recommendations, and solutions to complex problems enabling the enterprise to achieve its purpose and vision and profitability targets.
• Comprehensive Costing Analysis / Modeling: Lead comprehensive costing analysis across all plants and product types, including true cost to manufacture and true cost for investment at appropriate level to drive profitability. Goal to understand true market competitiveness and profitability of key product lines.
• Make vs. Buy Analysis: Lead comprehensive Make vs. Buy assessments across the manufacturing and supply network, identifying cost, risk, and strategic implications. Present recommendations to executive leadership for optimal sourcing decisions.
• Strategic Costing: Design and implement advanced costing methodologies to uncover value opportunities, support pricing strategies, and drive cost competitiveness across SEF.
• Business Case Development: Prepare detailed business cases for major capital investments, capacity shifts, and strategic sourcing projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and financial targets.
• Complex Data Problem-Solving: Utilize advanced data analytics and modeling to address complex operational and financial questions, integrating multiple data sources for actionable insights.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Commercial teams to ensure financial rigor and strategic alignment in all network decisions.
• Performance Tracking: Develop KPIs and dashboards to monitor the impact of network optimization initiatives and strategic costing projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a financial discipline from a four-year college/university.
• 5-7 years progressive experience in finance, strategy or operations
• Ability to work independently and to know when to ask for help in resolving specific financial issues. Must be able to work with all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of financial accounting principles and concepts to perform tasks listed in Responsibilities above.
• Strong knowledge of cost accounting including standard costing, budgeting, cash flow forecasting techniques, financial statement analysis including key trends analysis, project costing techniques, financial controls, and business case analysis.
• Strategic outlook driven to make process improvements.
• Advanced level Excel skills and proficiency in Power BI and MS PowerPoint required.

Technologies

• Excel
• Power BI
• PowerPoint

Benefits

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.
• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.
• Learning & Development: Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).
• Diverse & Inclusive Culture: We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.
• Purpose-Driven Company: You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.
• Career Opportunities: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

The Details

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

Learning & Development

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diversity & Inclusion

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.