Vice President Of Finance, North America

Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE "HAYW") is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world, with a significant presence in the commercial pool market that is continuously growing. Hayward designs, manufactures, and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, salt chlorinators, automation, lighting, safety, flow control, and energy solutions at our company-owned facilities. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hayward also has facilities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Rhode Island as well as Canada, Spain, France, Australia, and China. This position is based ­in Charlotte, NC.

The Vice President of Finance for North America is the Segment Financial Officer for the North American business. As a member of the North American leadership team, the SFO is an essential partner to establishing the business long-term growth strategy, identifying, and implementing commercial efficiencies, and ensuring the delivery to business financial commitments. The role reports directly to the North American President with functional accountability to Hayward’s CFO.

Responsibilities

• A partner with leadership to deliver and execute pricing and allowance/rebate architecture which optimizes business growth and profitability.
• Financial Analysis of business performance and reporting to segment executive management including commentary and insights
• Deliver the North American financial segment plans, forecasts, and results to the Hayward Corporate Executive team.
• Lead the analysis of complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations, along with building financial models and scenario analysis to evaluate investment decisions for various initiatives.
• Challenge current and/or traditional operating parameters and lead the implementation of new solutions adapted to customer/channel/category needs.
• Lead critical initiatives to improve the long-term operational and financial health of the Business Unit
• Partner with leadership to establish and achieve business goals and objectives.
• Model a high-performance culture which improves the segment’s ability to operate successfully in an ever-changing macro environment with a high sense of personal accountability.
• Lead the Budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis, leveraging the Global Finance Team (see footnote below).
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including revenue drivers, operating costs, and capital expenditures; along with external/internal market and competitive trends/drivers, leading/lagging indicators, and benchmarking analysis which enable rapid business decisions while mitigating risks.
• Partner with Global Finance Team in providing analytics and financial insights on key segment opportunities.
• Evaluate trends, anticipate challenges, establish critical measurements, design processes and systems (leveraging Global Finance Team), and proactively address issues in support of segment strategies.

G lobal Finance Team: Hayward operates a centralized financial services model which provides core financial services to the segment leadership teams. This includes centralized transactional services (AP/AR/GL), management and statutory accounting services for expenses, revenue, and balance sheet, and a business intelligence and data science team to assist the segments in their data analytics and data insight needs.

Qualifications

• Adept at working within a shared Global Finance Team or shared service model.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills, and proactive thought leadership
• Comfortable interfacing with and presenting to executive management and the Board of Directors
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration; MBA preferred
• 15+ years of experience in mid to senior finance roles with an emphasis on business unit financial leadership, experience in budgetary planning and management, financial analysis, and business unit P&L financial ownership and optimization.
• Excellent communication skills including verbal, written, and presentation.
• Proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Executive-level presence and the ability to effectively present to, and engage with, all levels within the broader organization. Demonstrated experience/ability in providing strategic financial direction and support to enterprise change-management-related initiatives Ability to communicate complex financial decisions across multiple functions and levels of the business.
• Problem-solving, especially with innovative and creative solutions.
• Experience in finance support as a finance business partner to management for business and global experience preferred.
• A highly motivated, proactive, and collaborative work ethic, with the ability to independently move projects forward, make decisions, and assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations – with a sense of urgency and the ability to enact change quickly.
• Ability to understand the big picture and yet be detail oriented.
• Proven ability to make data-driven recommendations with a limited amount of information.