Sr Director, Signaling & Frauscher

Job Description

Overview

The Senior Director - Signaling & Frauscher is a key member of the finance leadership team, with responsibility for providing strategic financial leadership and serving as a trusted business partner to drive the continued growth, profitability, and operational excellence of the business. The Sr Director will lead all finance activities for a global business with approximately $0.5B in annual revenue, supporting operations and customers across the United States, Austria, Brazil, Australia, and India.

In addition to bringing deep finance and operational expertise, the Sr Director will play a critical role in shaping business strategy, driving value creation, supporting commercial growth initiatives, and ensuring strong financial stewardship across a geographically diverse organization. The individual will serve as a collaborative partner to the Group President/s and senior leadership team, helping translate business objectives into measurable financial and operational outcomes.

Day-to-day, the role will have primary responsibility for planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all finance-related activities of the business. The Sr Director will be expected to navigate a complex global operating environment, drive simplification and process excellence, and develop systems and capabilities that enable scalable growth. The role will also support strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, integrations, and business transformation efforts.

A critical aspect of this position is providing strong leadership to a diverse and globally dispersed finance organization, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, talent development, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will possess exceptional people leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to build, develop, and inspire high-performing teams across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones.

This individual must be strategic yet hands-on, combining strong analytical capabilities with business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate will be an effective change agent, comfortable operating in a dynamic environment while driving sustainable performance and long-term value creation

Responsibilities:

• To be a valued business partner to the Group President/s and senior management team and involved in all aspects of managing and developing the business.
• To provide insightful analysis into the business and financial performance that leads to substantive business improvement.
• To play a leading and supportive role and be a source of high-quality advice to business and functional colleagues.
• To ensure that a strong control environment is maintained and regularly reviewed.
• To be an agent of change for the business and drive continuous improvement in people, processes, and information.
• To lead M&A transactions from inception to implementation.
• To drive operational efficiency whilst balancing cost and service levels.
• To take responsibility for hiring, developing, and coaching the best people to create a strong finance team that is motivated and well-led.
• To provide fact-based financial integrity and logic to strategic decision-making.

CRITICAL LEADERSHIP CAPABILITIES

Leading People

• Identifies and leverages individual strengths and potential within the team
• Engages the team in discussions around the longer-term strategy and how they can contribute
• Gives team members decision-making authority and accountability within their areas of responsibility
• Invites the team to recommend ways to solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or generate new ideas
• Collaborating and Influencing
• Identifies all necessary stakeholders and connects with them to gain support or agreement
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships to achieve a specific outcome
• Engages others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakeholders in ways that address their interests or concerns
• Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to pre-empt them
• Proven ability to lead through influence and deliver results in a matrixed global organization, effectively partnering cross-functionally
• Track record of successfully managing, developing, and mentoring high-performing finance teams, including experience building organizational capability, succession planning, and talent development.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience managing diverse teams across multiple geographies, cultures, and time zones while fostering engagement, accountability, and strong performance.

Driving Results

• Acts to surpass team goals, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible
• Sets continually higher goals for the team that are ambitious but achievable
• Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable performance targets to be exceeded
• Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets
• Support & lead M&A activities to…