Finance / Controlling Director Jobs

Dise & Company, a retained executive search firm, is privileged to represent a Norheast Ohio best-in-class manufacturer for the energy and industry sectors. With cutting edge research and development, this 4-time winner of Best Place to Work is leading the industry's technological and environmental transformation.

Overview:

The Finance/Controlling Director is responsible for leading the FP&A and controlling teams, by spearheading the Company's financial monthly forecast, annual budgeting process, and all operating plans, including variance analysis and special projects. S/he will provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management including preparing board presenations, financial presentations, profitabiity analysis, benchmark comparisons, new business opportunities, and other projects requested by senior management.

Essential Job Functions:

• Accounting and financial reporting: Oversee the monthly, quarterly and annual closing processes in collaboration with the Shared Service Center; implement routines and controls to ensure compliance of the ledger accounts with group policies and procedures.
• Sales Order Profitability: Maintain and enhance current system to calculate profitability per sales attributes (order, product, customer, ...), provide timely suppport to sales team for order quotation and tenders.
• Management support: Provide ad-hoc executive analyses to support both current financial review and potential future strategic scenarios and provide the overall financial impact to the business product unit.
• Performance Management: Measure and communicate the financial and operational performance of the business unit in comparison to target, deploy group and region costs programs.
• Strategic and operational involvement: Play a strategic role to the leadership team on growth strategies and operating performance. Work in conjunction with the President and Regional executive leadership team to maximize profitability, improve productivity and asset utilization, and strive for top performance.
• Financial planning and analysis: Develop reporting capabilities and internal analysis to facilitate understanding the drivers of profitability/cost performance to ensure sound business decision-making and optimal resource allocation.
• Internal Control and Risk Management: Deploy group procedures and ensure the implementation of the necessary internal controls, be the liason with the Group internal control department to conduct local audit and follow-up on their recommendations.
• Investments: Review and validate Capex projects profitability, supervise the recognition of assets in alignment with Group standards.
• Secretarial duties: Act as Secretary of the company, prepare and circulate materials for the Executive Committee preparations; work with the legal counsel department to establish the documents necessary to operate in compliance with the Company by-laws.
• Budgeting and forecasting: Responsible for monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting process, by monitoring all business units and helping the President set and achieve long-term financial goals that align with the corporate strategy. Responsbilility also includes the maintenance of the Finance Planning SAAS application Anaplan.
• Team Development: Take responsibility for the assembly, management and development of the company Finance & Controlling team.
• Data and trend analysis: Leverage and implement data analytics and business intelligence tools to drive real-time decision-making and increase profitable growth.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of financial experience in manufacturing environment.
• Ability to create and explain financial results for business managers and identify reasons for variances as well as corrective actions; seek out and provide advance warnings of risks and opportunities.
• Expert knowledge of U.S. GAAP, IFRS and other general accounting rules and principles; ability to recommend and implement best practices while adapting to rules changes.
• Experience working with ERP (SAP preferred) and other Financial Reporting Software.
• Ability to stay abreast of latest financial reporting technology trends and advocate for as well as implement best practices.
• Strong leadership experience to lead a Finance team with responsibility for execution, accuracy and results.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting or Finance is required. MBA strongly preferred.
• Experience working with business leadership at the Executive level to recommend and analyze strategic business decisions.
• Strong leadership, analytical and communciation skills with the ability to multi-task, set priorities and delegate.
• Ability to interface with various leaders from cross functional teams and ability to influence key stakeholders to deploy strategic initiatives.