Head of Finance
About The Position
Hunter Douglas is the world's leading manufacturer of window coverings and a major manufacturer of architectural products. We are a brand that you know and trust. With more than 100 years of innovation, we've defined our industry with proprietary products that deliver revolutionary style and functionality and can be found in millions of homes and commercial buildings globally. We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What's yours? Position Overview This role will oversee all financial reporting for Expert Shutters, ensuring accurate sales reporting, forecasting and budgeting. This role is responsible for ensuring rigorous compliance with HD accounting policies across each commercial organization as well as detailed periodic sales analysis. This role will also play a critical role in Hunter Douglas' value realization plan (across growth and synergies) for ESS.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in finance
- Proven track record of developing and managing sales analytics
- Strong leadership skills with experience directly managing teams and overseeing remote or indirect reports.
- Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in financial software and data analysis tools.
- Strategic thinking and ability to align commercial finance with business goals.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and teams.
- Adaptability to manage diverse teams and operational needs across multiple locations.
- Data-driven decision-making and process optimization expertise.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in manufacturing, construction, or screen solutions industries is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and oversee monthly reporting package for organization
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess sales in way that ties with the P&L
- Report on and validate monthly commercial initiatives both to standard reporting and bridging to the P&L
- Implement detailed PVM procedures in conjunction with HD Magellan reporting
- Detailed ZBB monitoring and reporting to maximize spend efficiency
- Detailed COGS reporting
- Directly oversee Sales, SG&A, and COGS aspects of budget
- Build bottoms up sales model for each product and brand to enable detailed and efficient budgeting process
- Build bottoms up SG&A budget with detailed assumptions based on ZBB classification
- Lead ZBB savings validation, and support in ideation, with commercial and management teams
- Implement monthly reporting process for all budgeted savings
- Develop detailed, automated sales reporting to enhance analysis across product, customer, brand, and geographical performance
- Leverage Magellan to build and maintain sales dashboards
- Develop detailed, automated spend reporting to enhance analysis and justify ZBB spending in line with commercial goals
- Maintain and monitor spend to be in line with, or better than, budgeted spend
- Oversee the finalization and improvement of unified front-end ordering and accounting systems
- Assist in the consolidation of financial systems into a single system and instance
- Partner with sales, revenue management, and product teams to align finance efforts with broader company objectives.
- Work with sales managers at SunPro, Universal Screens, and Progressive Screens to address reporting and process challenges and ensure seamless effective and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual closes as well as enhanced reporting analysis
- Assist in assessing, implementing, and designing SOX compliant procedures across all locations
- Assess, rationalize, and align procedures across the SunPro, Universal, and Progressive plants to create a cohesive and efficient close procedure
- Ensure all organizations are operating under a common SOX framework
Benefits
- Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability
- A company culture that prioritizes internal development and professional growth
- Time off with pay
- 401(k) plan with a degree of employer matching
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness programs and product discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
