Finance Director

The AZEK Company Location: Dahlonega, GA

The AZEK Company recently acquired StruXure Outdoor, Inc., a designer and manufacturer of innovative, aluminum pergolas and cabanas that help transform outdoor living spaces into functional outdoor rooms. 

The AZEK Company (www.azekco.com) is a $1 Billion and growing industry-leading manufacturer of beautiful, low-maintenance, and environmentally sustainable building products, with a focus on decking and outdoor living. Consistently recognized as the market leader in innovation, quality and aesthetics, products across AZEK’s portfolio are made from up to 100% recycled material and primarily replace wood on the outside of homes, providing a long-lasting, eco-friendly and stylish solution to consumers. We are committed to accelerating the use of recycled material in the manufacturing of our innovative products, keeping millions of pounds of waste out of landfills each year and revolutionizing the industry to create a more sustainable future. In June 2020, we completed a highly successful IPO (NYSE: AZEK).

At AZEK, we don’t just accept diversity — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. AZEK is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative-action employer. 

Position Summary:

We’re recruiting for a Finance Director for our StruXure business based onsite at our Dahlonega, Georgia manufacturing facility. This position is a business partner to the StruXure Business Unit leadership team who will be responsible for leading the planning, management reporting, and analysis activities of the segment. This includes the responsibility for directing, leading, and coordinating the Business Unit processes that encompass annual financial planning, long-range financial planning, dynamic forecasting, contingency planning and analysis of actual results.

Key Activities:

• Partner w/ StruXure GM to Drive AOP / Business Plan / Forecast
• Leads the forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning processes within the Business Unit.
• Provides financial leadership, guidance, and analysis to finance and business partners to drive improved financial performance and meet the company’s goals and objectives.
• Provides proactive analysis and commentary on business performance that demonstrates a strong understanding of industry and market factors. Summarizes key conclusions and recommends opportunities for improvement. Enhances and drives consistency in key performance indicators.
• Drives financial process and technology improvement efforts, incorporating best practices.
• Prepares senior management and Board of Directors communications and presentations in the area of Business Unit financial performance.
• Provides support to Corporate Finance and Accounting functions on earnings releases, external disclosures, and investor relations activities.
• Financial Reporting – can pull together and lead the critical financial discussions for the P&L Weekly/Monthly with simple STD reporting.
• Monitors progress vs. annual and long-range goals and models the impact of course-correction actions. Develops dynamic forecasts, upside/downside scenarios and performs sensitivity analysis.
• Provides modeling and analytics to support strategic activities including growth initiatives and major investments.
• Owns pulling together the Profit Improvement roadmap for the Product Line with the GM – Price, Volume, Mix, Inflation, Productivity, etc.
• Margin Analysis / Ad Hoc support to business as it relates to both Commercial and MFG OPS Analysis.
• Talent – build small but impactful Finance team to help drive StruXure business.
• Integration – can help integrate legacy acquisitions which have not been fully integrated.

Key Skills:

• Partner w/ GM & cross functional teams
• Team Player - work across cross functional lines – Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing/Operations, Finance, IT, etc.
• Prior Manufacturing Finance / Industrial Experience
• Teacher – can help raise business acumen of both the Finance Team as well as the StruXure business team

Position Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Consulting or other business-related fields.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years related experience required in progressively more responsible financial management positions, including experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably in a public company environment.
• Computer Skills: Strong systems skills with advanced proficiency in Excel and business performance management applications.

Other Requirements:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills and ability to communicate complex business issues in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong project management skills and ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple work assignments simultaneously.
• Demonstrated aptitude to drive change throughout an organization.
• Proven ability to interact with all levels of management to communicate financial results, the impact of proposed business decisions and drive performance improvement.

Preferred Requirements:

• MBA or Master’s in finance, CPA
• Hyperion / Essbase experience
• Oracle experience
• JDE experience
• Business Intelligence software experience is a plus