Financial Director

Position Summary:

The Director of Finance advances this mission through strategic financial leadership, operational partnership, and strong financial governance. This role directs long-range and annual financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting to provide clear insights that guide decision-making on opportunities, risks, and business performance. As a key member of the business leadership team, the Director of Finance will also serve as a pivotal change agent, championing a growth mindset, challenging conventional thinking, and enabling an entrepreneurial

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Change Enablement

• Partner cross-functionally with the leadership team to develop and execute strategic plans that improve operating leverage, cash generation, and business performance.
• Shape and reinforce a culture grounded in growth mindset, speed, accountability, and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Act as a change leader, helping the organization think differently, build new capabilities, and adopt new processes that support growth and continuous improvement.

Planning, Forecasting & Financial Management

• Lead the long-range and annual planning processes, incorporating both bottoms-up operational input and top-down strategic priorities.
• Oversee monthly financial reviews, identifying risks, opportunities, and actions related to revenue, margin improvement, productivity, and cash generation.
• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, including orders, sales, SG&A, and productivity initiatives.
• Ensure timely, accurate monthly financial close and reporting.

Cost Productivity & Operating Analytics

• Lead financial analysis for cost-savings initiatives; hold teams accountable for delivering measurable results.
• Own analysis, including quad reviews, pricing recommendations, obsolete inventory tracking, and identification of low-volume products/customers for action.

Inventory, Cash & Asset Management

• Champion the division’s drive toward an efficient working capital target, including weekly analytics and cross-functional action plans.
• Lead the quarterly excess and obsolete inventory process, ensuring root-cause insights inform future NPD, sourcing, and operations planning.
• Safeguard company assets and ensure strong internal controls while continuously looking for ways to drive efficiency.
• Coordinate all capital expenditure requests, including justification, payback, and alignment with business priorities.
• Maintain proper accounting controls, procedures, and compliance standards across all financial processes.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of accounting and finance professionals to enhance capability, performance, and business partnership.
• Conduct formal performance evaluations, provide direction, and support career growth while driving accountability and operational excellence.

Education Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university (CPA/MBA a plus)
• 5 years of progressive business experience including 3 years’ experience as a Plant Finance Manager or equivalent experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Lean Manufacturing experience will merit strong additional consideration.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement culture capable of challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom to help improve business.
• An assertive leader with a bias for action and an entrepreneurial orientation, with a willingness to move fast and inject velocity into everything we do.
• A demonstrated track record of owning and driving results; not just reporting results.
• Proven capacity for critical thinking, logical reasoning, and complex problem diagnosis to uncover root causes and design effective solutions.
• Demonstrates a learning mindset and a high degree of intellectual curiosity about the business.
• Relishes change and is very comfortable operating in an environment of ambiguity.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build consensus and gain internal alignment across different stakeholder groups – cross functional team, Division management and executive leadership.