Summary:

The VP Finance & IT plays a key leadership role within the organization and reports directly to the global CFO.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Owner of all financial reporting, internal control and planning aspects of the business (controller for the business)

• Financial backbone that supports the commercial aspects of the business, product margin analysis, pricing decisions, make or buy decisions, product/asset rationalization, working capital management, capital projects, contractual arrangements, negotiations, etc.

• Leads all financial planning activities

• Direct responsibility for all facets of accounting and financial reporting

• Establish policies in conjunction with corporate standards

• Coordinate month-end and quarter end close process

• Facilitate quarterly and year end External Audit process

• Facilitate regular updates and monitoring of internal control documentation

• Coordinate internal control testing

• Provide insightful financial analyses and engage leadership to drive strategic decision making

• Treasury & payment process

• Manage Tax and general compliance

• Build and provide recommendations on business strategies in areas such as:

o Product/customer pricing

o Product/asset utilization and/or rationalization

o Integration of new acquired business in North-America

o Working Capital Management

o Capital Expenditure analysis & management

o Lead financial analysis for monthly and quarterly meetings

o Accounting for contractual purchase and sales arrangements

o Manage departmental results, budgets and forecasts for the segment

o Streamline business processes and back office operations

o Manage and analyze the flow of data between different users of data to provide timely information

o Assist in assessing and integrating new initiatives for the Finance organization

o Recruit, develop, and train the management staff and teams

• Supervise local IT team in North-America that is managed by CTO based in Amsterdam

• Ad hoc duties, as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage a finance team in the USA and a shared service team in Mexico

• Supervise IT team

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• ‪‪Bachelor's and or Masters degree in Accounting/Finance; CA/CPA designation or related field.

• CPA and/or MBA strongly desired

Experience:

• 10 plus years’ financial leadership experience required, including responsibility for finance operations including forecasting, and financial analysis
• Strong supervisory and analytical skills required
• Must possess a high level of initiative; excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to interact with all staffing levels (front-line through to executive level) and work in a fast-paced environment; strong math skills; problem analysis and problem resolution skills; and a high degree of professionalism
• Well-developed social skills in order to foster effective internal working relationships spanning numerous business units and functions
• Ability to initiate and manage projects to completion and on time
• Effective negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong business acumen and experience in assessing operations, business processes and their relationship to accounting and reporting
• Detail oriented, deadline driven, organized, ability to handle multiple tasks while working independently or as part of a team
• Must be knowledgeable regarding GAAP accounting
• Desire to advance in the organization
• Understanding of ERP systems (E.g: Microsoft Dynamics) would be beneficial

Travel Requirements:

• Travel up to 20%