Finance Director - Manufacturing

Position Summary

The Finance Director is reporting to the General Manager and dotted line to the CFO. The role is responsible for the financial management of this site and responsibilities includes financial reporting and forecasting and financial planning in addition to involvement in the broader strategic plan, the annual budgeting process, monthly and quarterly analysis and special projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will provide strategic support to senior management including but not limited to; preparing presentations, capital expenditure analysis, industry/peer group comparisons, new business opportunities, new product development revenue and profitability.

Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a staff of financial professionals (may also include other functional departments) to ensure the organization's accounting activities (or other functional departments) are conducted accurately, ethically, consistently and according to relevant regulations, laws, and standards
Responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis and Financial Controls
Advise senior management on financial matters and on the potential impact of current and future laws and regulations on the operation of the organization
Ensure timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly and year-end financial statements, as well as balance sheets and other required documents according to the statutory requirements
Align business metrics with segment and corporate objectives and provide appropriate scorekeeping
Analyze the organization’s revenues, liabilities, credit conditions, and other financial indicators to forecast it's short, medium, and long-term cash flow position; evaluate and recommend investments and other financial instruments to meet these cash flow needs
Ensure compliance with Country specific legal requirements and United States.

Establish policy and procedure to ensure Corporate standards/procedure and external accounting policies to be complied
Manage components of the annual budgeting process for the operating company and effectively present the plan
Plan, forecast and control budget, analyze trends and anticipate organization operating performance; make recommendations to management to solve unfavorable trends
Prepare comprehensive business / financial forecasts, reports, and/or analysis.

Work with the location executive management team to ensure trends are understood and acted upon
Safe guard assets and manage cash flow to meet business needs, such as fixed assets, inventory and receivables
Utilize the Dover Financial Planning (DFP) system to facilitate information flow and improve the forecasting process
Oversight of IT projects (ERP System : Oracle ) and is responsible for checking and approving IT
Customizing projects
Management of small team of direct reports
Specific Responsibilities:
Responsible for the timeliness and accuracy of financial reporting including budgets, forecasts, and cash flow analysis for the segment
Monitor key performance measures against agreed standards and detail these as part of the Financial
Monthly Review.

Develop interface with Finance and Manufacturing focusing on clear cost targets and controls. Formulates objectives targeting cash control, debtor reduction and outlook forecasting
Lead and drive audit process. Ensure compliance with local/national and US financial and accounting rules and in particular SOX
Participate in due diligence activity, analyzing potential acquisitions, mergers and other ventures. Develops and analyses relevant data and specifications to establish period end process standards
Investigates and analyses reasons with regards to forecasting variances.

Provide adequate management information and analysis to support effective decision-making
To undertake any other duties as may reasonably be expected
Qualifications / Requirements:
Bachelor Degree level in a relevant field (Business economics and/or Business Administration, Controlling,
Qualified Accountant)
CPA and/or MBA preferred (Example: ACA, CIMA, RA, MSc. Economics)

• Proven international (Diversified Manufacturing ) Finance Professional

Experience with reporting into preferably USA HQ or International Company
7 + years relevant experience in accounting or finance, with minimum of 3 years of financial management experience
Could come from Industry or Accounting of the big 4 with managerial responsibility
Minimum Revenue of 30 million
Ideally M&A experience
Strong business driver/partner skills.
Ideally also working knowledge of manufacturing systems and Lean Enterprise concepts
Ideally ERP implementation (ORACLE)
Proven experience in US GAAP.
Strong analytical ability and IT/PC skills – Ideally having IT reporting into him/her
Demonstrated leadership as part of a cross-functional International management team
Leadership/Project management experience