Vice President of Finance

HED is an industry leader specializing in the design, manufacture, and application of innovative vehicle controls, displays, and keypads for on- and off-highway vehicle OEMs. Our application development tools, and engineering services enable OEMs flexibility and easy configurability to create customized vehicle control systems.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Vice President of Finance. The VP of Finance serves as HED’s senior finance leader, key partner in driving value creation, and financial steward of the business. This role establishes and leads the Finance operating system by connecting forecasting, controls, capital allocation, and value creation with clear ownership, decision rights, cadence, and cross-functional accountability.

The VP partners with the CEO, Board, and functional leaders to translate demand, pricing, sourcing, operations, inventory, and investment choices into clear financial decisions and measurable business outcomes.

If you enjoy the challenge of a growing organization, and want to make a difference when it matters, we would love to hear from you. Salary commensurate with experience. We are unable to provide sponsorship now and in the future due to the nature of work US Citizenship is required. We require eligibility as an ITAR “US Person.”

• Establish and lead the Finance operating system, connecting forecasting, controls, capital allocation, and value creation with clear ownership, decision rights, cadence, and cross-functional expectations.
• Lead the Rolling 12 financial forecast, annual budget, long-range plan, and scenario planning using driver-based assumptions tied to demand, volume, mix, margin, working capital, cash outlook, capacity, inventory, and risk/opportunity assumptions. Partner with the Controller, who owns the 13-week cash forecast as the supporting input for near-term liquidity visibility.
• Run the monthly business review and performance-management cadence, translating KPI performance, variance drivers, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions into clear accountability and operating decisions.
• Embed Finance in SIOP, operations, sourcing, engineering, product management, and commercial reviews so financial insight informs capacity, inventory, pricing, quoting, launch, and resource-allocation decisions.
• Own margin, profitability, and working-capital governance, including price realization, mix, cost, tariff/material pass-through, customer/product profitability, inventory turns, E&O visibility, AR/AP terms, cash conversion cycle, and cash-generation improvement.
• Establish capital deployment and ROIC governance, including Cap Ex prioritization, business-case standards, NPV/IRR/payback analysis, investment trade-offs, and post-implementation reviews.
• Financial Governance, Risk, and & Compliance Oversight: Establish and lead the financial governance risk and compliance framework, approval authorities, and risk priorities; assess the effectiveness of key controls and remediation efforts; oversee material control, liquidity, inventory, customer credit, vendor, cybersecurity, contractual, tax, debt, and insurance, and compliance exposures; direct mitigation efforts; and report significant matters to executive leadership and the Board.
• Partner with the Controller to strengthen close, reporting, controls, audit readiness, ERP data discipline, policy governance, and Finance as the single source of truth.
• Provide Board-ready financial narrative and recommendations, including EBITDA bridges, cash and working-capital outlook, margin drivers, capital allocation, risk/opportunity framing, and strategic choices.
• 401(k) Fiduciary Governance: Lead plan governance and, when formally appointed, fulfill fiduciary responsibilities by overseeing plan design,…