Vice President, Finance

The Vice President, Finance for the Business Segment Perimeter Security is the senior finance leader and a core member of the BSPS Leadership Team. The role serves as a strategic business partner to the Segment President and provides leadership across financial planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, cash flow and working capital, internal control, compliance, systems, acquisitions, and performance improvement.

This position is accountable for the integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of financial information across the segment and its operating businesses. The VP Finance translates strategy into financial plans, challenges assumptions, identifies risk and opportunity, and helps leadership make disciplined decisions that improve growth, profitability, cash generation, and long-term value creation.

• Provides segment-level financial leadership across the BSPS businesses, including Ameristar, B&B Roadway and Security Solutions, Iron Eagle, and Wallace North America.
• Leads and develops a distributed finance organization that includes business finance leaders, controllers, financial planning and analysis, and shared-service resources operating in a matrix environment.
• Partners closely with Segment, Business Area, Entrance Systems Division, and Group leadership, as well as Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, and external advisors.
• Supports a multi-entity, cross-border manufacturing and service environment with differing ERP platforms, operating models, and statutory requirements.

• Act as the principal financial advisor to the Segment President and BSPS Leadership Team, providing clear, fact-based insight on business performance, strategic priorities, risks, and opportunities.
• Contribute to segment strategy, annual operating priorities, long-range plans, investment decisions, and resource allocation.
• Build financial scenarios and challenge commercial, operational, and investment assumptions to improve the quality of decisions.
• Translate financial results into concise executive-level messages for leadership, business reviews, board materials, forecasts, and planning discussions.
• Promote collaboration across BSPS businesses and with other segments and divisions to identify synergies, share resources, and improve ways of working.

• Lead the segment’s annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and short-term forecast processes, ensuring timely submissions, aligned assumptions, and clear explanations of changes.
• Lead monthly business reviews and quarterly financial reviews, with disciplined analysis of sales, orders, organic growth, margins, EBIT, cash flow, working capital, headcount, capital spending, and other key performance indicators.
• Evaluate performance by business, product, market, customer, and cost category; identify root causes and coordinate corrective actions with accountable leaders.
• Oversee segment financial models, management reporting, scorecards, bridges, and dashboards that support timely, traceable decision-making.
• Establish measurable financial priorities and monitor execution against plans, forecasts, functional targets, and improvement commitments.

• Ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting in accordance with ASSA ABLOY reporting requirements, applicable accounting principles, and local statutory requirements.
• Provide oversight of month-end and year-end close, consolidation, account review, significant estimates, reserves, intercompany matters, and management reporting across the segment.
• Maintain a strong review process for revenue, margins,…