harmerHouston, TX
Global Finance Director
Global Finance Director
Global Finance Director
harmerHouston, TX
yesterday
Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing OfficesConstruction Machinery ManufacturingOffices of Bank Holding Companies
Apply for this role →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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Level
Manager
Location
Houston, TX
Occupation
Financial Managers
Industry
Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices
Posted
yesterday