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MSC Finance Manager, Chicago Plant

Mondelez International · Chicago, IL

Posted Sep 8, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026

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Behavioral

Tell me about a time you found a gap between forecasted spending and actual results in a plant or production environment. How did you dig into the cause and what did you do about it?

whether they actually drive forecast accuracy and risk/opportunity management rather than just reporting variances

Tell me about a time you had to influence a plant leader or engineering team on a capital expenditure decision they didn't initially agree with. How did you make your case?

ability to business-partner and influence senior stakeholders outside a direct reporting line

Describe a time you had to step in and run a function or team temporarily, covering for someone above you. What did you prioritize and what did you deliberately let slide?

readiness to act as Controller backup, and judgment about triage under a broader scope

Tell me about a direct report who was struggling with accountability or performance. How did you handle it, and how did things turn out?

actual people management skill versus stated leadership philosophy

Tell me about a situation where you had to enforce internal controls or compliance even though it slowed something down or made you unpopular. How did you handle the pushback?

integrity and willingness to hold the line on controls under organizational pressure

Technical

Walk me through how you'd lead the monthly close process for a manufacturing plant, from cost center review to final reporting. What steps do you take to shorten the cycle time without sacrificing accuracy?

whether the candidate has real hands-on experience owning a manufacturing close process, not just reviewing someone else's numbers

How do you approach a loss analysis and loss elimination effort at a plant? What does a good master planning process look like to you?

depth of hands-on experience with productivity/loss elimination methodology specific to manufacturing finance

What's your process for reviewing appropriation requests and doing post-investment evaluations? What red flags do you look for?

whether they understand capital project financial discipline beyond just approving paperwork

How do you make sure your BOMs and material requirements stay accurate, and what happens when you find they've drifted? Can you give me an example?

practical familiarity with inventory and BOM accuracy issues that directly hit cost accounting

What ERP systems have you worked in day to day, and can you give me an example of using one, ideally S/4HANA, to actually improve a process rather than just pull reports?

whether digital/ERP fluency is real and applied, not a resume keyword

Situational

Say the plant is trending toward a significant waste or overtime spike this month that will blow through the cluster's KPI targets. Walk me through what you'd do in the next two weeks.

how they translate financial monitoring into concrete operational action under time pressure

A cost center owner comes to you and pushes back on a spending allocation they think is unfair, and it's affecting their team's morale. How do you handle that conversation?

how they balance financial governance with relationship management and communication under friction

Walk me through how you'd explain a complex cost variance to a plant leader who isn't a finance person, in a way they'd actually use to make a decision.

communication skill translating financial detail into operational language for non-finance stakeholders

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The full job description

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Job Description Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International? Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours. As the Finance Manager for the Chicago Plant, you will provide leadership and oversight across financial planning, controls, and operational reporting. You will play a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring compliance, and partnering with plant leadership to achieve business targets. In the Controller's absence, you will assume full responsibility for the plant's finance function. How You Will Contribute • Partner with the Plant Controller to provide strategic financial guidance to plant leadership, translating insights into actionable recommendations that support net productivity and capital expenditure targets. • Lead the financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with strategic objectives. • Own the monthly process for manufacturing financials, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and continuous cycle-time improvement. • Manage the plant's risk and opportunity profile, driving forecast accuracy to control spending and achieve financial results. • Lead cost and budget ownership across the plant, ensuring proper governance, training, and accountability around cost centers. • Drive the loss analysis and loss elimination agenda, coordinating the master planning process and aligning with the cluster's productivity targets. • Monitor site and cluster KPIs — waste, overtime, fixed costs, overheads — and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement. • Ensure robust inventory management procedures, BOM and MR accuracy. • Support the Engineering team with appropriation requests and post-investment evaluations. • Supervise and develop the plant finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and professional growth. • Maintain a strong internal controls environment to ensure accuracy of financial data and compliance with corporate policies. What You Will Bring • TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning, manufacturing cost accounting, and internal controls — including analyzing and reporting financial performance across all KPIs and supporting investment decisions and cost management. • BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of CPG/manufacturing dynamics. Relevant experience in a large regional or global corporation. • LEADERSHIP SKILLS including business partnering, team management, and the ability to influence and communicate across functions and levels. • GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET with the ability to leverage technology and ERP systems to improve efficiency. • INTEGRITY and sound judgement aligned with company values and external regulations. Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field. • 7–10 years of progressive finance/accounting experience, with significant time in a manufacturing environment. • Prior supervisory or team leadership experience required. • Strong expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling. • Experience with ERP systems; S/4HANA experience is a plus. • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders Location: Chicago Plant 7300 S Kedzie Ave Chicago, IL 60629 Salary and Benefits: The base salary range for this position is $122,000 to $167,750; the exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

In addition, Mondelez International offers the following benefits: health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education related programs, paid holidays and vacation time. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company. No Relocation support available Business Unit Summary The United States is the largest market in the Mondelēz International family with a significant employee and manufacturing footprint. Here, we produce our well-loved household favorites to provide our consumers with the right snack, at the right moment, made the right way. We have corporate offices, sales, manufacturing and distribution locations throughout the U.S. to ensure our iconic brands—including Oreo and  Chips Ahoy! cookies, Ritz, Wheat Thins and Triscuit crackers, and Swedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids confectionery products —are close at hand for our consumers across the country.   Mondelēz Global LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact 847-943-5460 for assistance. For more information about your Federal rights, please see  eeopost.pdf ; EEO is the Law Poster Supplement ; Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision ; Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Job Type Regular Finance Planning & Performance Management Finance

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