Regional Controller

Position Summary:

Serve as a key member of the team to oversee, manage and review the overall financial assessment in operations, consulting with leadership for the purpose of improving Operation Excellence and improving the Cost Deployment function. In addition, this position is leading in strengthening the operations, sales financial analysis, and R&D while improving processes to improve performance and achieve business objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Drive cross functional (non-Finance) engagement to harmonize alignment between Sales, R&D and Operations assumptions/activities.
• Drive and support finance activities including decision-making support for various business processes including budgeting, forecasting, and strategic business imperatives
• Lead planning activities and connection / alignment on key planning assumptions and activities.
• Drive and oversee strengthening the processes and systems supporting R&D Planning activities with capitalizing on PMO / Agile activities.
• Drive / strengthen processes and systems supporting Operations Planning and capitalizing Operational Controller activities.
• Drive financial support to business stakeholders; provide insights, information, and key performance indicators along with supporting decision making.
• Responsible for monitoring financial performance, analyzing, and interpreting operating results, investigating variances and unusual items; and evaluating their effect on operations.
• Provide leadership accurate and timely financial and operational insights.
• Act as the key interface with Business Leaders and central functional stakeholders to support various planning / reporting activities.
• Provide a comprehensive evaluation of Cost Deployment projects to enable an effective allocation of capital resources for Operations/Function.
• Oversee and collaborate with plant operations on the financial review and make recommendations on methods to increase profits through cost and expense reductions, other improvements and improve financial performance.
• Drive the Operations/functional financial planning process for monthly forecast, annual budgeting, and five-year strategic plan.
• Provide leadership through effective communication and support.
  
  
  

Knowledge:

• Extensive understanding of financial concepts including financial statement analysis, accounting, budgeting, profitability analysis, and standard costing methodologies
• Solid understanding of the drivers of the business (i.e., industry volume patterns, specific customer products, customer/market mix, etc.)
• Ability to connect business activities and related impacts to financial statements.
  
  
  

Experience:

• Minimum 10-15 years of direct and progressive financial leadership experience in a prior global manufacturing environment
• Minimum 10 years of proven managerial experience leading a team and driving strategy to achieve results.
• Proven ability to lead teams and develop talent.
• Prior financial, business and plant leadership experience required.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems experience required ; SAP preferred.
• Experience in project management and/ or financial management, including managing budgets, preparing estimates at complete and performing variance analysis.
• Working knowledge of IFRS and FX analysis preferred
• Prior experience in a multinational manufacturing company preferred.
  
  
  

Skills:

• Comprehensive business perspective, financial leadership skills that enable development and evaluation of business activities, processes, and systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills, working across management levels, multiple locations, and cross functional activities.
• Ability to prioritize multiple, complex, and ambiguous tasks in order to meet stringent deadlines.
• Motivated and proactive self-starter with a sense of urgency and results oriented.
• Strong project management and change management skills including the ability to initiate, lead, and mentor projects/teams.
• Ability to influence both global and local management.
• Ability to deal tactfully and confidently with customers/personnel at all organizational levels in independent and often stressful and ambiguous situations.
• Ability to build and utilize teams to resolve complex problems.
• Ability to effectively manage a cross functional teams.
• Strong decision-making skills; the ability to influence internal customers.
  
  
  

Education/Travel Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. degree in Finance or Accounting required; MBA preferred.
• Six Sigma / Green Belt certification preferred.
• Change Management Certified Practitioner preferred.
• Must be capable of traveling to manufacturing plants 50% of the time.
  
  
  

Position Requirements:

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.