Vice President Finance

Our client is seeking a Vice President, Finance to serve as the organization’s senior finance executive and a member of the executive leadership team. As a strategic advisor to the President and leadership team, this executive will drive performance, guide investment decisions, and strengthen the financial capabilities, systems, and governance needed to support a complex, global business. The role will also serve as a key liaison to ownership stakeholders, financial institutions, external advisors, and strategic partners.

This hybrid role offers flexibility while requiring meaningful in-person collaboration with the executive team.

• Lead the global finance strategy and operating model, translating business priorities into measurable financial outcomes.
• Advise the President and leadership team on performance, capital allocation, risk, and strategic investments.
• Drive long-term value creation through disciplined financial management and strong business partnership.

• Lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and enterprise performance management.
• Partner closely with plant, operations, supply chain, and commercial leaders, translating manufacturing performance, cost, inventory, productivity, and capacity drivers into clear financial insight and action.
• Ensure timely visibility to risks, opportunities, and performance drivers, reinforcing accountability and execution.

• Oversee treasury, liquidity, cash management, financing, and working capital performance.
• Lead capital planning and allocation in a high-capital-demand environment, balancing growth, returns, liquidity, and risk.
• Maintain strong financial governance, controls, tax oversight, and reporting discipline.

• Represent the organization with ownership stakeholders, banks, auditors, tax advisors, consultants, and other strategic partners.
• Communicate enterprise performance, investment priorities, and value-creation plans with clarity and credibility.

• Lead finance transformation, including ERP implementation, process modernization, and development of scalable standalone capabilities.
• Ensure finance systems, processes, and talent support growth and the long-term operating model.
• Lead and develop a high-performing global finance organization across core finance disciplines.
• Build capability and succession strength while fostering ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field; advanced degree or CPA, CMA, or equivalent qualification preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience in a complex, global manufacturing environment.
• Proven success leading finance operations for a manufacturing company; experience primarily in service, financial services, technology, retail, or other non-manufacturing sectors will not substitute.
• Strong command of manufacturing finance, including plant performance, standard costing, inventory and working capital, productivity, supply chain economics, and capital investment decisions.
• Experience operating in a business with high capital demand, including capital planning, prioritization, and investment governance.
• Broad leadership across FP&A, treasury, accounting, tax, controls, and business finance.
• Experience with finance transformation, ERP implementation, integration, separation, or development of standalone capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive decisions and lead through significant organizational change.

The successful candidate will be:

• Strategic and commercially minded, combining financial rigor with practical business judgment.
• Collaborative in style, with the confidence to bring a strong perspective, challenge constructively, and influence decisions.
• Disciplined - balancing growth, capital stewardship, governance, and risk.
• Credible - people leader who builds strong relationships, develops talent, and creates accountability.