Global Supply Chain Finance Leader

Enovis•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Global Supply Chain Finance Leader is a strategic finance executive responsible for financial planning, performance management, cost optimization, and business partnership across a global supply chain organization. The role provides financial leadership to manufacturing operations across multiple countries and sites, driving profitable growth, operational excellence, productivity, capital efficiency, and long-term value creation. The leader aligns supply chain strategy and operational execution with enterprise financial objectives, anticipates future needs and risks, and enables data-driven decision-making as a key partner to the Global Supply Chain leadership team. The role leads the finance organization supporting global manufacturing operations and establishes a consistent global finance operating model, processes, KPIs, and governance. It owns planning and performance management, cost and productivity initiatives, capital investment governance, working-capital and cash-flow improvement, finance transformation, and development of a high-performing global manufacturing finance team. It also ensures appropriate financial controls, compliance, and risk management across manufacturing operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant experience supporting manufacturing operations.
Demonstrated experience leading finance teams in a global, multi-site manufacturing environment.
Strong understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, standard costing, variance analysis, inventory, and operational KPIs.
Proven experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, capital planning, and strategic decision support.
Experience leading cost-reduction, productivity, and operational improvement initiatives.
Strong ERP and financial systems experience.
Advanced analytical and financial modeling capabilities.
Experience working across multiple countries, cultures, and business environments.
Strategic thinking and ability to connect financial performance to short- and long-term business strategy.
Commercial acumen and understanding of customers, markets, products, pricing, and competitive dynamics.
Operational mindset and understanding of how manufacturing decisions translate into financial results.
Executive presence and ability to communicate complex financial and operational issues clearly to senior leadership.
Change leadership across geographically dispersed organizations.
Data-driven decision-making and ability to use analytics to identify opportunities and drive accountability.
Collaboration and ability to build partnerships with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, and Commercial teams.
Talent leadership, integrity, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification.
Experience with SAP, Oracle, or similar ERP platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead the finance organization supporting manufacturing operations across multiple plants, countries, and regions.
Establish a consistent global finance operating model, processes, KPIs, and governance framework.
Partner with manufacturing and operations leaders to improve profitability, productivity, working capital, and cash flow.
Provide financial leadership for manufacturing strategy, footprint optimization, capacity planning, make-versus-buy decisions, and network optimization.
Build relationships with plant managers, regional operations leaders, and executive stakeholders.
Lead the integration of manufacturing finance activities for future acquisitions.
Lead annual operating plans, budgets, forecasts, and long-range strategic planning for global manufacturing.
Develop financial models, scenarios, and business cases for strategic and operational decisions.
Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, and prior year, identifying drivers and corrective actions.
Establish and monitor manufacturing KPIs, including conversion cost, labor productivity, material efficiency, overhead absorption, inventory, scrap, yield, OEE, and manufacturing variance.
Provide actionable financial insights to senior leadership and the executive team.
Drive global cost-reduction and productivity initiatives with Operations and Supply Chain.
Lead standard cost, variance analysis, manufacturing cost accounting, and cost-of-goods management.
Identify opportunities to improve labor productivity, sourcing, manufacturing efficiency, capacity utilization, and fixed-cost leverage.
Support Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, and operational excellence programs with financial measurement.
Quantify, track, and validate savings initiatives and ensure they are reflected in financial results.
Lead financial evaluation and governance of capital investments across the manufacturing network.
Oversee business cases and ROI analyses for equipment, automation, capacity expansion, technology, and facility investments.
Prioritize capital allocation according to strategic value, returns, capacity requirements, and risk; monitor project performance against approved cases and commitments.
Partner with Supply Chain leadership to optimize inventory, working capital, and cash conversion.
Set targets and accountability for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, and excess or obsolete inventory.
Identify cash-flow improvement opportunities without compromising customer service or operational resilience.
Standardize and improve financial processes, reporting, controls, and performance-management systems across global manufacturing sites.
Use ERP, analytics, automation, and business intelligence tools to improve visibility and decision-making.
Build scalable reporting and dashboards for insight into operational and financial performance.
Lead finance transformation initiatives and promote continuous improvement.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global manufacturing finance organization, establishing roles, accountability, performance expectations, and career plans.
Develop finance talent as strategic business partners and promote collaboration and best-practice sharing across regions and sites.
Foster integrity, accountability, continuous improvement, and business ownership.
Ensure appropriate financial controls, policies, and governance across global manufacturing operations.
Partner with Corporate Finance, Business Unit Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, and external auditors as required.
Ensure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, and applicable local regulations; identify and proactively manage financial and operational risks.