VP, Finance

Location:

Lewis Center, OH, US,

At ATS, a $3B publicly-traded global enterprise with a proud 47-year history, we are helping advance the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. Within Packaging and Food Technologies, what we do matters — it matters to both our customers and their customers. We focus on food processing machinery and equipment industry, vision and quality control systems, and packaging across industries that include beverage, pharmaceuticals, cannabis, and other verticals.

Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise, on time and on budget. Together with our product range, our financial strength, and our global footprint, we provide the best automation solutions where and when our customers need them.

The Vice President, Finance serves as the strategic finance leader for the Packaging & Food Technology (PFT) platform — a multi-business, multi-geography portfolio with operations across North America, Europe, UK and Asia. Reporting to the Group President, this role is the financial conscience of the division, driving performance, enabling decisions, and elevating the quality of financial management throughout the organization.
With a strategic focus on organic growth and operational efficiency, the VP Finance builds the financial architecture to translate enterprise objectives into operating actions — creating accountability, improving decision quality, and expanding the financial capability of business leaders across PFT.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Financial Leadership & Performance Management

• Own the financial performance management system for PFT, including monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cadences across multiple business units, geographies, legal entities, and currencies.
• Build and maintain robust KPI architecture, driver-based forecasting, and scenario planning capabilities to drive decision quality at every level of the organization.
• Create visibility from enterprise strategy to operating actions, ensuring financial management is consistent and effective across the decentralized PFT platform.
• Balance local operating requirements with enterprise performance objectives, maintaining discipline without compromising divisional agility.
• Partner closely with the Group President and divisional leadership teams as a trusted financial advisor and strategic thought partner.

Strategic Finance & Enterprise Value Creation

• Translate shareholder expectations and enterprise growth algorithms into operational financial targets and
  resource allocation decisions.
• Lead capital allocation planning — ensuring investment decisions reflect ROIC discipline, strategic
  alignment, and value creation potential.
• Build deep understanding of PFT's value creation drivers, cash generation dynamics, and CRI metrics to
  enable timely and effective decision making.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the Group President on growth investments, geographic expansion, capacity
  deployment, and portfolio decisions.
• Develop and lead enterprise scenario modelling to stress-test strategic assumptions and assess portfolio
  risk and return profiles.
• Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process across PFT, aligning divisional plans with enterprise
  objectives and ensuring financial commitments are rigorous and achievable.
• Drive operational efficiency initiatives through financial analysis, identifying opportunities to reduce cost,
  improve margins, optimize working capital, and deploy capacity effectively.
• Ensure strong financial close processes, governance, compliance, and internal controls across all PFT
  entities.
• Oversee resource allocation, including SG&A management, operational spend, and capital deployment, to
  maximize return on invested resources.
• Support pricing strategy, margin management, and capacity planning across diverse manufacturing
  environments including engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, and make-to-stock businesses.

M&A and Portfolio Management

• Lead financial analysis and evaluation for potential acquisitions, including investment thesis development,
  white paper creation, due diligence, and valuation.
• Oversee integration processes…