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Job description
Harmer has been engaged by our manufacturing client to identify a Finance Director. This is a highly visible finance leadership opportunity supporting a complex, global, multi-site business with over $1B in revenues. The Finance Director will serve as a strategic finance partner to senior commercial and operational leadership, providing the financial insight, leadership, and organizational direction needed to improve business performance and support continued growth.
Opportunity Highlights:
Highly visible role partnering with senior commercial, operational, and executive leadership
Broad scope across FP&A, operational finance, manufacturing finance, accounting, and strategic decision support
Lead an established, geographically dispersed finance organization with experienced leaders across the business
Improve reporting and processes to give leadership a clearer view of business performance
Take a lead role in transformation, integration, process improvement, and finance systems projects
Broad opportunity to make an impact across a complex, global manufacturing organization
Responsibilities Include:
Partner with senior business, commercial, and operational leaders to drive financial performance and support strategic decision-making
Lead forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, performance analysis, and management reporting
Improve visibility into business performance by identifying and clearly communicating the operational and financial drivers behind results
Partner with operational leadership on manufacturing performance, standard cost, inventory, profitability, and other key business drivers
Oversee accounting and financial reporting, including close, US GAAP reporting, internal controls, cost accounting, and inventory
Lead and develop a geographically dispersed finance and accounting organization, including people leaders, while strengthening consistency and accountability across the team
Drive improvements across FP&A, accounting, reporting, controls, processes, and business intelligence
Support transformation, integration, and strategic growth initiatives
Support finance systems initiatives and the continued development of scalable, standardized processes and reporting
Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
12+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience with significant leadership responsibility
Demonstrated experience leading finance teams and managing other people leaders
Strong experience within a complex, multi-site manufacturing environment, ideally supporting a business or P&L of significant scale
Strong manufacturing finance background, including standard cost, inventory, plant performance, and operational finance
Demonstrated success serving as a strategic finance business partner to senior operational and commercial leadership
Strong FP&A foundation with experience improving forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, and financial analysis
Solid accounting foundation including US GAAP, close/reporting, and internal controls; global or statutory accounting exposure is a plus
Experience driving transformation, process improvement, integration, or other significant change initiatives
M&A or post-acquisition integration experience is a plus
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial and operational information into actionable business insight
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Worksite address
houston, TX, 77246, US
Who can apply
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