Director, Finance Operations
Skills
AdoptionExecutive VisibilityLeisure IndustryMotorsOn SiteOperating BudgetsOperations Management
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years of progressive finance leadership in global or industrial manufacturing
- Deep expertise in operations and plant finance, standard and product costing, and intercompany pricing
- Experience building standardized finance processes and leading automation, digital, and AI transformation
- Experience leading financial business cases for footprint, make-versus-buy, capacity, and sourcing decisions
- Fluency in Spanish and English, written and verbal
- Required ability to travel to Juárez or Piedras Negras, Mexico
- Strong working knowledge of ERP systems and modern analytics tools
- Continuous-improvement mindset grounded in LEAN and 80/20 principles
- Proven ability to lead and develop finance talent and influence senior leaders
- Strong command of internal controls, US GAAP, and SOX
- Executive presence with clear communication of complex financials
- Change agent with high urgency and personal drive
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Legally authorized to work in Mexico or the United States
Nice to have
- CPA
- Oracle experience
- Power BI experience
Day to day
- Serve as a strategic finance business partner to Operations leaders and plant leadership, shaping major footprint, sourcing, make-versus-buy, and production-location decisions.
- Lead the development of best-in-class finance processes, improving efficiency through automation, LEAN methods, 80/20 principles, and AI-enabled productivity tools.
- Drive global consistency in costing, intercompany pricing, budgeting, forecasting, controls, and performance reporting across the operations network.