Director, Operational Finance

Our Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania client is seeking a Director of Operational Finance to perform the following duties:

• Understand the corporate strategy (short and long-term) and align the priorities, policies, and processes of the global finance/accounting organization
• Partner with the functional, segment, and program leadership to ensure the financial success of strategic initiatives through risk assessment and mitigation, cost management, financial system integration, management of financial metrics and timely reporting, etc
• Support the Program Management Office for our most significant integrated product line with customer relationship management, financial analysis, and certain integration coordination in a way that identifies and achieves improvements in program profitability
• Set, communicate, and enforce operational accounting (ie standard setting methodologies that facilitate proper quotation analysis) and financial reporting policies, formats, procedures, etc. that provide timely and valuable information to the appropriate managers who can use it to make effective decisions
• Partner with functional, segment, and program leadership as well as the Financial Forecasting team, to improve and execute the forecasting process and to develop the best business planning process for the company
• Manage the prioritization and implementation of financial related change initiatives, including policy, procedural, reporting, system, and other continuous improvement and strategic changes
• Manage the effectiveness of the segment controllers, whose priorities are to ensure compliance with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley in a timely and efficient manner and to support the business through the execution of operational finance initiatives and coordination with segment and business unit leadership teams

Qualifications:

• Degree in Business related field, preferably Finance or Accounting; CPA and MBA preferred
• 12-18 years cross functional experience in multiple areas including but not limited to audit, controlling, financial planning & analysis, financial systems, cost accounting
• Experience in manufacturing environment with a public company ( hands on experience in a manufacturing facility an absolute must)
• Knowledge of GAAP, Financial Reporting
• Strong leadership skills (manage & motivate)
• Strong problem solving analytical skills
• Change management skills
• Systems: Hyperion and SAP preferred
• Ability to work with others and past experience working and developing strong relationships with operations

Source: http://www.accountingprofessional.com/JobSeeker/Director_Operational_Finance_WJ716496.aspx

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