VP, Regional Finance North America

Job Description

Responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and overseeing the controllership function for North America. Play a strategic role in financial analysis, developing budgets, and establishing forecasts to drive operational efficiency and sustainable growth. Lead and mentor a finance team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous learning.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements

A Brief Overview
Responsible for ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and overseeing the controllership function for North America. Play a strategic role in financial analysis, developing budgets, and establishing forecasts to drive operational efficiency and sustainable growth. Lead and mentor a finance team, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous learning.
What You Will Do:

Controllership

• Monitor financial processes closely, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of reporting
• Identify and act upon cost-saving or financial optimization opportunities
• Oversee controllership function
• Evaluate financial controls to ensure robustness and effectiveness
• Ensure compliance with existing key internal controls and process framework
• Identify areas of potential process improvement

Financial Analysis

• Oversee and build regional budgets with departmental and location breakdowns
• Establish rolling forecasts for regional performance
• Develop robust trend analysis from historical data. Use analyses to draw conclusions and actionable insights.

Strategic Financial Leadership

• Collaborate with Regional Senior Leadership and act as a financial business partner to develop and execute strategies that drive operational efficiency and sustainable growth.
• Identify and define KPI’s, aligned with business strategy. These activities should occur collaboratively with other functions and should be designed to provide measurable insights.

Financial Systems and Processes

• Evaluate and enhance financial systems and processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Drive automation and integration initiatives to streamline workflows and reduce manual efforts.
• Provide training and support to finance staff on system usage and best practices.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Shape and execute the organization's vision and strategy, lead by example to foster a culture of excellence, accountability, innovation, and inclusiveness across all levels. Drive organizational growth and effectiveness to develop and implement high-level initiatives that prioritize diversity and inclusion. Collaborate with peers to ensure seamless integration of inclusive strategies, positioning the organization for long-term success.
• Lead and mentor a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning
• Set clear performance objectives and provide regular feedback and coaching to support individual and team development
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve departmental goals and organizational objectives

Qualifications
Education Qualifications

• Bachelors required

Experience Qualifications

• 10+ Years of progressive experience in a corporate accounting and/or manufacturing environment required
• 5+ Years of experience as a people manager with a proven record of successfully leading, directing and coaching required
• 7+ Years of experience in a controller environment performing traditional accounting activities required

• Strong knowledge of financial budgeting, GAAP accounting, tax reporting regulations, and compliance
• Able to use Microsoft Office Applications including expertise in Microsoft excel
• Experience in OneStream and SAP a plus

Soft Skills

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, understand the vision of the organization, and turn information into effective strategies to drive business performance
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• Ability to influence across the organization at senior levels and to become a proactive, trusted advisor and thought leader on strategic issues to drive results
• Strong oral, written and formal communication and presentation skills including ability to communicate complex financial issues in a simple way
• Experience collaborating with and delivering presentations to Executive Leadership Teams
• Strong interpersonal skills: work well as part of a cross-functional team and able to interact at all levels
• Previous experience leading others with the ability to engage, inspire & influence people required; leading leaders or managers preferred
• Strong change leadership skills required. Must have demonstrated ability to proactively drive change within a business to enhance business results

Additional Requirements

• 5% of time traveling as needed

Physical Demands
This role is performed in an office environment where a computer, telephone and other office equipment are used as needed to perform the duties of the role.

MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to transform the building industry with better building solutions. In 1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform that provided an affordable and scalable way to manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the balance between off-site and on-site. With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction to transform the way the industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record of continuous growth and innovation.

MiTek is an E-Verify and Drug and Tobacco-Free Workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer; and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or transgender status), age (40 and over), genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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