VP, Global Finance Operations

The VP of Finance for Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Innovation is a strategic leader responsible for driving financial excellence across global supply chain, manufacturing, operations, and innovation/R&D functions. This role partners closely with the Chief Supply Chain Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and senior leadership to deliver actionable insights, optimize cost structures, and ensure robust financial planning and analysis for a $1.1B+ cost base. The VP leads a global finance team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

A key partner to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, this role co-leads long-term, confidential strategic cost savings initiatives—guiding project planning, business case development, and realization of cost efficiencies to optimize the global supply chain footprint. The VP also champions efficient capital investment, ensuring strong returns and alignment with business priorities.

This leader is responsible for transforming finance processes, systems, and ways of working to enhance simplicity, business analytics, and actionable insights. This includes designing streamlined processes, developing an integrated systems roadmap, building a robust data and intelligence repository, and redefining roles and accountabilities across the finance team.

Success in this role requires exceptional business and financial acumen, a proven ability to collaborate across geographies, and experience navigating complex, fast-paced environments. The VP must demonstrate strong interpersonal and influence skills, effectively partnering with and constructively challenging business leaders, while maintaining a balanced and engaged relationship with the finance function

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal financial advisor to the Global Supply Chain, Operations, and Innovation leadership, providing strategic guidance, business partnership, and decision support to enable the achievement of operational, innovation, and financial objectives. This includes managing finance support for all our plants across the globe including the establishment of a new Third Party Manufacturing finance team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, influence, and partnership across the organization, balancing business support with financial stewardship.
• Lead all financial processes supporting reporting, measurement, annual and strategic planning, and quarterly forecasting for the global supply chain, operations, and innovation/R&D organizations.
• Provide transparent and meaningful analysis of global COGS including all elements of manufacturing & sourcing variances, and make recommendations to the GSC leadership team on any appropriate remedial action to allow the GSC team to deliver more predictable performance and improved business results Develop robust scorecards across all elements of our COGS platform and utilizes these scorecards to better track business performance, quickly identify opportunities and support heightened execution Provide timely, robust and transparent forecast updates on COGS to the monthly and quarterly financial forecasting process to ensure costs are well understood and communicated.
• Drive the development and execution of cost savings and productivity initiatives, including project planning, business case development, and realization of strategic cost efficiencies.
• Oversee the financial evaluation of capital investments, ensuring disciplined ROI analysis and alignment with business priorities.
• This includes the development of a process to evaluate the financial viability of capital requests with robust analysis of business case assumptions working in partnership with the operations leadership team. Support capital business cases models (payback, NPV, IRR, working capital implications)
• Enhance business analytics and insights by redesigning finance processes, integrating systems, and building robust data repositories.
• Lead continued efforts to improve the global S&OP process (EBP) to bring better visibility and discipline in how we manage the business to improve key supply chain and financial measures.
• Deliver transparent and actionable analysis of COGS, inventory, and working capital, supporting predictable performance and continuous improvement. Improve the measurement, tracking and forecasting of inventory, and ensure strict DOH management to optimize working capital efficiency across the business
• Provide strategic financial leadership for Innovation and R&D initiatives, ensuring robust financial planning, analysis, and governance across all stages of the innovation lifecycle.
• Partner with Innovation and R&D leaders to evaluate new product initiatives, lead financial stage-gate reviews, and develop business cases that drive value creation and align with enterprise strategy.

Lead and develop a high-performing global finance team (~50 people), focusing on talent development, role clarity, and organizational effectiveness.

• Evaluate where work is performed, strengthen role clarity and accountabilities, and ensure that the organization is efficiently and effectively structured in support of company objectives. Look for ways to simplify, streamline and automate transactional work to allow more time for critical thinking and analysis

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field.
• 15+ years of senior-level finance leadership experience in a global, multi-location environment, with deep FP&A and operational finance expertise
• Proven ability to lead and develop global teams, drive process improvement, and influence at all levels.
• Strong analytical, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience with business applications and systems integration is preferred.
• Travel to Plants as required

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Systems skills with a focus on business applications including SAP, Hyperion, HFM

Key Relationships

• Partners with: Chief Supply Chain Officer, CAO, Commercial Finance, Global Operations, Manufacturing, Procurement, IT, and Business Unit Leaders.

The salary range for this position is $232,000- $348,000. Actual base salary offered to a candidate may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance.

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