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Morgan Advanced Materials · 1 day ago

Finance Change Business Partner - Standard Costing (Remote with travel)

United States

Full-time, Contract

Remote

Senior Level

$180K/yr - $220K/yr

5+ years exp

Morgan Advanced Materials is a global organization specializing in advanced materials. The Change Business Partner will lead the implementation of strategic transformation across manufacturing operations, focusing on the adoption of standard costing and enhancing efficiency and growth.

Advanced MaterialsIndustrial EngineeringIndustrial Manufacturing

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to Business Unit leaders, site managers, and functional teams, aligning change initiatives with manufacturing and business priorities

Collaborate with the Highlander team in simplifying points of contact, improving clarity on local priorities and explaining core model deployment

Lead and support change management efforts related to process improvements and ERP implementations, notably in the adoption of standard costing

Collaborate with finance, operations, and system teams to ensure standard costing methods are clearly understood, implemented consistently, and aligned with the group’s cost control and margin management goals

Support operational leaders in transitioning from legacy cost tracking practices to standardised cost models, clarifying the impact on performance measurement, variance reporting, and profitability analysis

Facilitate local understanding of how standard costs are built and maintained (including BOM accuracy, labour/machine cost drivers, and overhead allocation)

Coordinate training and capability-building programs to embed cost awareness and ownership at all levels of the organisation, from planners to plant managers

Act as a liaison between Global Process Owners, central finance teams and production sites to translate costing policy into operational practice, including system inputs, data accuracy, and routine cost updates in D365

Help identify gaps in cost data, local processes, or system usage that could undermine the integrity of standard costing or its impact on decision-making

Experience delivering change management within an industrial or manufacturing environment

Understands and leads for the to-be processes and ways of working

Understanding and advocating good practices in principle and in detail for a range of topics especially standard costing (cost build-up, cost drivers, variance analysis, cost updates) and margin management, but also MRP, planning, and warehousing

Experience supporting or deploying standard costing frameworks within ERP systems (especially Microsoft D365), including training, data validation, and cost centre alignment

Ability to engage both finance and non-finance teams in understanding the operational impact of cost changes, cost performance, and product profitability

Proven ability to build relationships and influence frontline teams, middle management, and senior leaders

Strong communication and facilitation skills, particularly in operational and technical contexts

Experience with ERP systems (JD Edwards, Microsoft D365) is a strong advantage

Comfortable working at different levels of the organisation

Flexible to adapt to the changing business needs of the projects

Serves as best practice/quality resource within Standard costing and ERP Transformations

Aptitude to learn and adapt, seeing change opportunities and encouraging others to seek positive change

Change Management or Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) is an advantage

Minimum 5 years of experience in finance management or transformation, or multi-site general management roles within manufacturing or industrial sectors

Qualification

Standard CostingChange ManagementERP SystemsManufacturing ExperienceLean Six SigmaCommunication SkillsFacilitation SkillsRelationship BuildingAdaptability

Required