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The Finance Director – Exteriors Segment owns forward-looking strategic finance partnership to set the direction of the Segment and drive achievement of its goals and objectives.

“The Finance Director of the Exteriors Segment serves as the key finance business partner over our largest segment, at the critical junction of strategy and operational execution. Consider this role the financial thought partner to North America Exteriors product leadership. A unique opportunity to influence the business while building the team for the future.” – Beth Geisen, Senior Director Finance

This leader owns annual planning, long-range planning, dynamic forecasting, and management reporting for the segment, and converts that work into actionable insight for the businesses. The role partners closely with segment and functional leadership on growth initiatives and major investments, NPI launches, go to market strategy, and execution of the R&D and new product pipeline. This role requires strong backbone, executive presence, and the ability to drive accountability as the primary finance business partner to the Exteriors Segment General Manager.

Successful candidates will offer a strategic perspective, demonstrated cross-functional influencing, and ability to lead, develop and coach a high-caliber team.

• Strategic Business Partnering
  • Act as a forceful, trusted advisor and financial thought leader to the Commercial Finance Organization, General Manager and Product Leaders.
  • Bring clear, fact-based perspectives to trade-offs involving cost, service, risk, capacity, and capital—even when uncomfortable.
  • Challenge assumptions, escalation risks early, and prevent value leakage through disciplined decision-making.

• Partner with Product Management, R&D, Operations, and Commercial leaders to evaluate product roadmap choices, prioritize investments, assess cannibalization and substitution risk, and ensure product strategy is grounded in financial return and enterprise value creation
• Lead efforts to optimize financial processes and incorporate best practices within the Business Unit and with peers
• Lead financial business cases for new products, product enhancements, and major portfolio investments, including pre-launch assumptions, stage-gate financial review, post-launch performance tracking, and lessons learned to improve future investment decisions. Operational Performance & P&L Accountability
  • Own product portfolio economics across Exterior Segment, including revenue, rebate programming and pricing, manufacturing costs, logistics, working capital, and operational margins.
  • Partner with Pricing, Sales, and Product leaders to shape pricing architecture, discounting guardrails, rebate strategy, and price realization governance across the product portfolio.
  • Drive rigorous performance management, variance analysis, and corrective action.
  • Translate operational complexity into clear executive-level insights and actions.

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