HIP Segment CFO

The HIP Chief Financial Officer (CFO) provides strategic financial leadership for the Housing & Infrastructure Products (HIP) segment and serves as a key business partner to the HIP Senior Vice President, segment leadership team, and Corporate CFO. This role has overall responsibility for segment-level finance, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, business performance management, and compliance. Accounting activities performed within the segment are carried out under the functional direction of the Chief Accounting Officer, with the HIP CFO accountable for ensuring those activities are properly resourced, executed, and controlled.

The HIP CFO will shape and execute the financial strategy for the segment, drive value creation, and ensure disciplined capital allocation and robust internal controls.

The HIP CFO partners with the Chief Accounting Officer and oversees all segment accounting functions and related transactions (sales revenues, costs, cash, fixed assets, trade payables, and inventory management) and ensures timely, accurate segment financial reporting. The role is responsible for HIP Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, internal controls, and the effectiveness of financial systems and processes within the enterprise frameworks and standards established by the Chief Accounting Officer.

The HIP CFO builds and leads a high-performing finance and accounting team that is deeply embedded with the HIP businesses and operations, providing forward-looking insight, business partnership, and decision support, and aligns the design of that team with the evolving finance and accounting operating model.

In partnership with HIP business and operations leaders, the HIP CFO will interpret and communicate financial results, including the operational drivers behind cost, volume, and absorption variances, support strategic and commercial decision-making, lead the development of budgets and forecasts, and champion initiatives that improve profitability, cash flow, and return on invested capital.

May include, but are not limited to, the following

• Serve as the primary financial business partner to HIP business and operations heads, providing insight, challenge, and recommendations on financial performance, strategic priorities, and resource allocation.
• Lead the HIP segment financial planning and analysis (FP&A) processes, including long-range plans, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly outlooks, together with scenario and sensitivity analysis of feedstock, energy, price, and volume assumptions, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and strategies in coordination with the VP of Finance for process alignment and standardization across Westlake.
• Support HIP businesses and operations heads in presenting and understanding results, including variance analysis, key performance indicators (KPIs), and operational drivers of performance, translating cost, volume, absorption, and reliability variances into the operating actions that improve segment profitability.
• Deliver profitability insight by product grade and customer to commercial and operations leaders, including cost-to-serve and mix analysis to support pricing and portfolio decisions.
• Support HIP business and operations heads in business development and M&A activities, including financial modeling, valuation, due diligence, and post-close integration of operations, systems, policies and procedures, and internal reporting with the Westlake model, partnering with the Chief Accounting Officer on purchase accounting, opening balance sheet, and accounting integration matters.
• Lead and support strategic analysis of the business, including plant economics and integration, assessment of strategic initiatives, capital investments, portfolio optimization, and cost reduction and profit improvement initiatives, including post-investment reviews and tracking of realized benefits against approved business cases.
• Drive working capital performance and cash generation for the segment across inventory, receivables, and payables, and support the corporate cash flow forecast.
• Partner closely with segment business analysts to review monthly financial performance and forecasts to ensure understanding, challenge assumptions, and drive accountability for results.
• Support business and operations heads and corporate management in preparation of and adherence to annual budgets, including setting targets, monitoring performance, and initiating corrective…