VP – Global FP&A

Location: Palatine, Illinois

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Role Overview

The VP, Corporate FP&A will partner with senior leaders to achieve business goals and increase the

company's overall value by leading, influencing and guiding the development of a functional and

progressive finance teams.

You will be responsible for all financial leadership elements of FP&A including operations

analysis, budget and planning, and organizational development.

The role will collaborate with company leadership to develop, execute and effective plan to meet the company's financial goals. This may include the use of unconventional structures, methods, or external resources to identify and attain objectives and key results. This role must be the advocate of innovation, creativity, and unconventional thinking.

The role will provide leadership and critical control of all the strategic and day-to-day aspects of Finance and Risk Management.

Through a respectful, constructive, results-oriented and energetic style, the role will provide the leadership, management and vision necessary to ensure that company has the proper financial controls, systems and resources and human capital in place to effectively support the organization and its anticipated growth.

The role will build and leverage effective relationships within the entire organization and outside organizations that contribute to the advancement of the company mission.

The role will lead the finance team in managing the corporate financing needs of the company by tracking, measuring, evaluating and forecasting financial results, identifying needs and trends.

The role must be able to access, hire, retain, and mentor financial talent and develop a human capital plan within the financial organization that is in line with company's strategic plan for growth. The role will be expected to set high standards within his/her organization as it pertains to ethics, corporate governance and business contribution.

Through the exceptional and proven skills of pace, precision and influence, the VP, Corporate FP&A will be responsible for:

Partnering with Business Leaders to build, develop, and execute strategies/ processes and systems that effectively meet, support and enhance the company's objectives;

Oversee Corporate FP&A and special project teams;

Leading and supporting M&A and other investment activities as required;

Corporate FP&A responsibilities

• Analyze business performance across all key metrics and functions with the ability to identify issues, drive to the root cause(s) and develop the appropriate corrective actions
• Involve and actively own the inventory and debt management process to optimize working capital and maximize cash flow.
• Ensure that the highest controllership standards are maintained including those related to account reconciliation, stewardship of assets and integrity of financial transactions
• Develop and manage planning cycles and long-range plan and budget
• Actively engage with supporting legal entity setup in certain countries and M&A initiatives by coordinating due diligence, local and legal regulations and integration activities
• Build a "world class finance team" capable of growing the business profitably and delivering financial support.
• Scope of Responsibility
• Developing timely, meaningful reporting tools that serve to support, measure and ensure positive performance; coordinate reporting requirements very closely with Industrial leadership and corporate teams;
• Maintaining open communications with all levels of executives to assess the needs of their departments within Corporate and Industrial business objectives by recommending solutionsand measures;
• Active monitoring and managing the Corporate working capital accounts;
• Overseeing the development of new and enhanced management reporting capabilities; including dashboards and other meaningful operating financial reports;
• Ensuring an effective internal control environment is maintained

Required Experience

15-20 years' progressive finance experience. Divisional or stand-alone CFO experience a plus; 5+ years in divisional or corporate FP&A leadership;

Major career time spent in or around organizations that are focused on transformative finance driven culture;

Strong understanding, insight and sense of passion for the Company's objectives; thrives on change, pace, action and accountability; servant-leader with an orientation towards innovation, re-engineering or invention of new ways of operating, products, services, and fulfilling customer needs;

BS required; MBA is a plus.

Early career training and progression at "best-in-class" company; understanding of "what does excellence looks like;"

Understanding of scale; demonstrated ability to comprehend the innovation processes and impacts in large organizations;

Leadership and management skills with a proven track record of building , leading and managing;

High level of personal integrity, ethics, initiative, and strong interpersonal skills;

Experience developing collegial teams;

A confident persona;

A highly effective communicator;

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required

MBA and/or CPA strongly preferred

Leadership Characteristics

• To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
• Change leadership; hands-on; "roll up the sleeves and get it done" mentality;
• Experience with transformative technologies, innovation or intensely digital environments.
• Creative thinker; fast on feet; proactive versus reactive; Risk assessment, risk management, risk taker;
• The ability to consult and advise business leaders and managers on a range of issues, with specific competency on corporate financial matters;
• Able to establish a constructive and informative relationship with employees, management, executives, and external resources;
• Attention to detail;
• Ability to present ideas in an easy-to-understand and engaging manner;
• Highest level of confidentiality;
• Ability to use fewer resources - time, materials, money and people to make division and corporate strategies actionable; have an entrepreneur's sense of resources.
• Proven success recruiting, managing and developing professionals within an organization;
• Metric and results oriented;
• Able to drive change throughout organization;
• Problem solver;
• The desire and passion to be an integral member of a finance organization working towards growing significantly- with the ability to participate financially in this growth and success.