Job Description

Job Title: Director of Finance

Position Summary

This role will provide financial leadership to maintain the financial control environment, drive performance and optimize profitability for the Tampa operations as well as being the business partner for the VP of A&D Tampa. This position will lead a finance and accounting team consisting of 2-3 direct reports. Key responsibilities will include oversight of the month-end close, financial planning and analysis, POC (ASC 606) accounting, financial reporting, SOX compliance, forecasting, operational planning, preparation of annual operating budgets, cash flow improvement, KPI tracking, audit support (external and internal), as well as special projects as directed by the VP of Finance.

Principal Activities

• Financial stewardship: Maintain the integrity of the accounting and financial books of record and maintain a proper control environment over company assets and expenditures. Oversee the month-end close, ensuring all journal entries and accruals are properly recorded in accordance with US GAAP and company policy.
• Internal Control: Overall site responsibility for maintaining control environment in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Supports requests from external and internal auditors as required.
• Team Leadership: Change agent, mentor, coach, develop, and assist site finance & accounting team members to effectively perform assigned duties. Foster a learning culture within the team, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous professional development.
• Cost Accounting: Oversight of Cost Accounting function to ensure integrity of product costing and estimates at completion (EAC) for POC accounting.
• Planning and Forecasting: Lead the preparation of the annual operating budget and monthly forecasts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flows).
• Reporting and Analysis: Prepare and analyze performance reports, financial statements and operational metrics. Present and effectively communicate performance results to local and AFS Group management teams to facilitate a clear understanding of key performance indicators and provide insight into cost drivers.
• Capital investment: Lead annual capital budgeting process. Prepare financial evaluation of capital investments (PP&E). Ensure proper capital / expense recording. Analyze and track expenditures and provide variance analysis.
• Financial Projects: Provide financial leadership for activities involving Sales and Operations. Examples include make vs. buy studies, product line P&Ls, operations restructuring, distribution and pricing analyses and activity-based costing.
• Cash Flow: Lead efforts to improve cash flow through coordination with Financial Shared Services (receivables and payables) and Tampa operations (inventories).
• Productivity / Process Improvement: Using Lean tools, drive improvements in financial processes, including automation of manual activities, improvements in the quality and consistency of data and analysis, and elimination of non-value-added work. Identify cost reduction or efficiency opportunities and lead related cross functional projects, Kaizen activities, or other initiatives as required.
• Initiatives: Provide financial support to drive key site improvement initiatives including, but not limited to, project accounting, pricing controls, product line reporting, SKU margin improvement and cost reduction programs.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Serve as financial leader for financial activities supporting P&L Leader of –Tampa A&D including, but not limited to, reporting of Tampa financial results, coordination of SIOP process and SKU rationalization.

Requirements

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Large, multinational corporate experience in the area of manufacturing a plus.
• Experience leading finance / accounting teams
• Manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Undergraduate degree in accounting or finance or equivalent experience
• Knowledge in accounting, FP&A and audit
• Knowledge of Governmental Accounting and Percentage of Completion (POC) Accounting (ASC 606).
• US GAAP experience and understanding
• Strong analytical capability to identify operational problems, analyze variances from planned results and develop timely action plans to achieve operating goals
• Ability to influence and persuade business leaders
• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 compliance
• Advanced skills in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Experience with SAP BPC and/or Hyperion

Education & Experience

• B.S. in Accounting, Finance and/or equivalent business degree.
• MBA or CPA preferred
• 10-15 years of professional experience with an emphasis on financial analysis, consolidations and technical accounting.

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