Vice President, Finance - SSI

This is a West Allis, WI onsite job based opportunity.

Summary

Under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Vice President, Finance is a senior leadership role managing over $200 MM+ in annual revenues to drive the financial strategy and operations for the organization. As a member of the Company Leadership Team, the VP of Finance serves as a strategic partner and financial operations leader to the CFO and other key leaders to drive financial performance and operational efficiencies across the business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

- Partner with the CFO and other executive leaders on the strategic vision of the segment, as well as assisting in the development of organizations’ future plans.

- Collaborate with other business leaders and teams to optimize cost structures.

- Direct and lead processes for financial metrics, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting to deliver timely, relevant, accurate and complete information that further elevates business performance

- Oversee full management of financial statements including income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement

- Ensure Finance team deliverables for financial cycles: annual operating budget, monthly forecast reviews, strategic plans

- Financial analytical leadership across areas: product and job profitability analysis, product pricing, customer analytics, ROI analysis, cost benefit analysis, operations variance analysis are effectively and efficiently achieved.

- Lead expense budgets and proactively partner with others related to project and investment decisions

- Manage working capital and cash, the maintenance of the inventory of all fixed assets and perform the necessary financial analysis for capital appropriation requests.

- Ensure compliance with tax, controls, substantiating documentation, governance, and audit requirements

- Lead in establishing best practices and standardization across the business and finance function

- Lead and mentor the finance team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement

- Develop, train and manage engagement and career progression for finance team

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA or MBA required

- Ten+ years of financial experience and management experience with the day-to-day financial operations of a manufacturing environment.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Encourages and exhibits the ability to partner across cross functional leaders, ability to stand firm and effectively drive towards positive solutions

- Problem-solving-ability to analyze results, identify opportunities and create solutions

- Exhibits high interpersonal savviness and ability to build professional relationships with dealers, suppliers, business partners and understanding of consumer trends and behaviors

- Strong decision quality - Makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, experience and judgment and the ability to influence leadership towards best business outcomes

Strong communicator of business progress- -both written and verbal form.

- Exhibits ability to work individually while effectively utilizing the team

- Ability to understand currency fluctuations, and cross-cultural work environments

- Highly analytical with capability to manage through detail and understand to build the narrative

- Effectively establishes priorities and responds to multiple responsibilities, such as business team, finance deliverables and corporate timelines

- Strong talent developer, including goals, regular progress reviews, career planning, coaching, training and plans for development

- In-depth knowledge of GAAP accounting and financial principles

- Professional proficiency with Excel and other Microsoft Office suite software

- Working knowledge of manual and automated accounting systems, well developed financial analysis capabilities, and demonstrated ability to manage computer operations and applications

- Technologically savvy with the ability to implement new processes and systems that increase efficiency

- Location in Milwaukee, WI. Ability to occasionally travel to other locations approximately every 2 months