Regional Controller - Americas

Responsibilities

Howmet Aerospace is searching for a Regional Controller - The Americas to join our Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) business unit in Cleveland, OH.

Howmet Aerospace creates breakthrough products that shape industries. Working in close partnership with our customers, we solve complex engineering challenges to transform the way we fly, drive, and power. Through the ingenuity of our people and cutting‑edge advanced manufacturing techniques, we deliver these products at a quality and efficiency that ensures customer success and shareholder value.

Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS) is a business unit with a rich tradition and a bright future. We invented the forged wheel in 1948 and have remained the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products. ALCOA Wheels are highly engineered products operating in challenging environments with significant product liability risk and wide diversity of end‑use applications ranging from passenger cars to heavy‑duty trucks to commercial and military vehicles.

HWS employs 1,900 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally.

• Provide strategic financial leadership for all North America and South America operations, including Cleveland Manufacturing, Barberton Wheel Plant, Barberton Cast House, Monterey Manufacturing and Brazil, ensuring alignment with corporate financial objectives and business strategy.
• Primary partner to drive cost analysis and pricing proposals to improve profitability and cash flow.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of Plant Controllers, establishing performance expectations and driving accountability.
• Oversee the monthly close process across all North and South America locations, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent financial reporting while resolving significant issues impacting results.
• Review and consolidate regional financial results, communicating key risks & opportunities and performance trends to executive leadership.
• Lead the regional forecasting, annual operating plan and long‑range financial planning processes, ensuring alignment across manufacturing, supply chain, commercial and corporate finance organizations.
• Drive forecast accuracy and financial discipline by reviewing plant forecasts, challenging assumptions and ensuring consistency across all locations.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial and executive leadership to identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, working capital and overall business performance.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounting policies, internal controls and financial processes across all North America and South America sites to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Provide governance over inventory accounting, manufacturing cost accounting, account reconciliations and financial controls while ensuring consistency across all plants.
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, internal control standards, ASAT completion and corporate accounting policies across the region, driving timely resolution of identified control gaps.
• Serve as the regional finance leader for Internal Audit, external audit and corporate finance activities, coordinating audit readiness and ensuring timely responses to audit requests.
• Oversee regional inventory control processes including physical inventory programs, cycle count compliance, inventory valuation and reconciliation activities.
• Monitor capital expenditures and significant financial initiatives to ensure appropriate financial controls and return on investment.
• Identify financial risks, operational challenges and emerging business trends across the region, developing action plans in partnership with Plant Controllers and operational leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance financial reporting, standardize processes, strengthen controls and improve operational efficiency throughout the regional network.
• Support strategic initiatives affecting the North America manufacturing locations.
• Perform strategic financial analyses and executive‑level reporting as requested by the HWS VP of Finance and senior leadership.