Director of Finance

Imagine: A Career with Purpose and Possibility

Picture this:
You are part of a global team of problem-solvers whose innovations in materials science can make life better. Every day, you help turn ideas into impact using science, technology, and creativity to tackle real-world challenges. You are part of a company whose work helps improve patient outcomes in healthcare and protects essential consumer goods that people around the world rely on every day.

At Tekni Plex, you’ll join more than 8,000 colleagues across 12 countries, all united by one purpose: creating safer, smarter solutions that touch daily life. Through our two divisions, Tekni Plex Healthcare and Tekni Plex Consumer Products, you’ll help shape industries that matter: healthcare, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, beauty, and personal care.

Here, your ideas count and your work matters. You’ll be encouraged to think boldly, collaborate across cultures, and keep growing every step of the way. You will help protect the integrity of essential products, support patient safety and comfort, and contribute to innovations that make everyday life better, all while building a career that makes an impact.

Because at Tekni Plex, you don’t just deliver products – you help shape what’s next.

Tekni Plex is hiring a Director of Finance located in Madison, WI. Overall responsibility for the financial oversight of the Medical Barrier Solutions product line, including consolidated BU financial statements and consolidated BU budgets and forecasts. Also responsible for providing financial business partnership to the business unit senior leadership team. Salary range is $180,000 to $225,000 annually. Pay is based on experience.

• Ensure timely close of the financial systems every month across the business unit in accordance with US GAAP/IFRS/GMP.
• Recruit and provide leadership to Product Line finance team.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to management in the areas of cost management, resource management, finance, revenue accounting, customer profitability and market segmentation, pricing, and contracts.
• Support Healthcare Division capex spending management and execution.
• Partner with business and IT to develop new processes to better manage operating expenses, working capital and overall business profitability.
• Develop and ensure compliance with policies and procedures to meet all corporate, and statutory, requirements, including sales and use tax filings and other local tax compliance requirements.
• Provide support for ad-hoc financial projects and analysis along with financial presentations as required to support corporate initiatives.
• Assist in the development of short-, medium-, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives including plant consolidation, strategic partnerships, and acquisition strategy.
• Regularly interact across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure plant and division objectives are met.
• Together with the Corporate Accounting Team, identify and resolve Company's technical accounting issues; provide technical accounting guidance and recommendations to senior management and various business divisions, as documented in Company accounting position papers;

• Research and evaluate transactions, legal contracts, business practices, and policies for compliance with accounting and reporting guidance.
• Promotes worker safety by:
  • Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.
  • Stressing safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.
  • Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.
• Actively participates in the continuous improvement process (CIP) by:
  • Identifying and addressing any opportunities to reduce cost, improve product/process and/or improve overall operations
  • Participating in CIP teams to eliminate problems, streamline operations or other areas as defined by management
  • Participating in CIP training and exercises designed to expand the potential for continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Business…