Regional Finance Director

Trelleborg•Fort Wayne, IN

32d

About The Position

The Regional Finance Director will act as the primary finance business partner to the Regional Director, jointly driving operational excellence, cost leadership, and strategic initiatives in the region. This role involves providing analysis and recommendations to support decision-making in areas such as capacity planning, capital investment, productivity initiatives, labor strategy, and footprint optimization. The position also requires leading financial performance reviews with site leadership teams, supporting the Business Unit Finance Director, and collaborating with other Regional Finance Directors for Europe and Asia to drive the global business plan. A key aspect of this role is directly managing the team of Site Controllers across the Americas region, providing coaching, mentorship, and performance development, while ensuring consistent application of financial processes, policies, internal controls, and reporting standards. The role also involves supporting Controllers in strengthening internal control environments and closing identified control gaps, with travel to sites as required for coaching, training, and assessment. Furthermore, the Regional Finance Director will oversee timely and accurate monthly reporting, forecasting, and budgeting for all regional manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance with group accounting policies, statutory requirements, internal control frameworks, and audit expectations, while driving continuous improvements in reporting quality, efficiency, and transparency. The position requires challenging and supporting plant operations on major KPIs, providing financial evaluation and tracking of cost-saving initiatives, restructuring programs, and strategic projects, and leading or supporting financial aspects of projects such as ERP upgrades, footprint changes, and manufacturing transformation initiatives. The Regional Finance Director will be a key member of the regional leadership team, promoting collaboration across finance, operations, supply chain, and commercial teams, and contributing to talent development and succession planning.

Requirements

Strong leadership skills with experience managing distributed teams.
Excellent analytical, financial modelling, and business partnering capabilities.
Deep understanding of manufacturing cost structures and operational drivers.
Strong communication and influencing skills.
Proven ability to drive standardization and process improvement.
High integrity, resilience, and proactive problem‑solving.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA, CMA, or equivalent preferred.
10+ years of progressive finance experience, including plant or manufacturing finance leadership.
Experience managing multi‑site or regional finance teams.
Experience partnering with operations leadership at a regional level.
Familiarity with ERP systems and manufacturing analysis platforms.
All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. Green Card Holder), Political Asylee or Refugee.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary finance business partner to the Regional Director, jointly driving operational excellence, cost leadership, and strategic initiatives in the region.
Provide analysis and recommendations to support decision-making in areas such as capacity planning, capital investment, productivity initiatives, labor strategy, and footprint optimization.
Lead financial performance reviews with site leadership teams, ensuring clarity on variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
Supports Business Unit Finance Director and works closely with other RFD’s for Europe and Asia to drive functional business plan globally.
Directly manage the team of Site Controllers across the Americas region, providing coaching, mentorship, and performance development.
Ensure consistent application of financial processes, policies, internal controls, and reporting standards across all sites—aligned with BU and Group requirements.
Support Controllers in strengthening internal control environments and closing identified control gaps.
Travel to sites, as required, to perform coaching, training and assessment of local systems and teams.
Oversee timely, accurate monthly reporting, forecasting, and budgeting for all regional manufacturing sites.
Ensure compliance with group accounting policies, statutory requirements, internal control frameworks, and audit expectations.
Drive continuous improvements in reporting quality, efficiency, and transparency.
Challenge and support plant operations on major KPIs: productivity, scrap, overhead absorption, energy, working capital, inventory optimization, and service levels.
Provide financial evaluation and tracking of cost‑saving initiatives, restructuring programs, and strategic projects.
Lead or support financial aspects of projects such as ERP upgrades, footprint changes, and manufacturing transformation initiatives.
Lead or support strategic projects being executed across the region, ensuring delivery to timelines and financial business case.
Act as a key member of the regional leadership team.
Promote collaboration across finance, operations, supply chain, and commercial teams.
Contribute to talent development and succession planning within site finance teams and the broader finance organization.