Vice President, Finance

ASSA ABLOY•Tulsa, OK

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Finance for the Business Segment Perimeter Security (BSPS) is the segment’s senior finance leader and a core member of the BSPS Leadership Team. The role serves as a strategic business partner to the Segment President and leads financial planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, cash flow and working capital, internal control, compliance, systems, acquisitions, and performance improvement. It is accountable for the integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of financial information across the segment and its operating businesses. The VP Finance translates strategy into financial plans, challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and supports decisions that improve growth, profitability, cash generation, and long-term value creation. The role provides financial leadership across Ameristar, Jerith, B&B Roadway and Security Solutions, Iron Eagle, and Wallace North America. It leads a distributed finance organization—including business finance leaders, controllers, FP&A, and shared-service resources—in a matrix environment. The position partners with Segment, Business Area, Entrance Systems Division, and Group leadership, as well as Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, and external advisors. It supports a multi-entity, cross-border manufacturing and service environment with differing ERP platforms, operating models, and statutory requirements. This is an office-based leadership role involving regular interaction across BSPS locations and with Division and Group stakeholders. Regular travel within the United States and Canada is required, with periodic international travel as business needs require. The role must operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and support critical reporting periods and business events. Responsibilities may evolve with business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
Extensive progressive experience in finance leadership, including responsibility for multi-entity or multi-location operations in a manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex environment.
Demonstrated leadership of planning, forecasting, financial reporting, internal control, working capital, and business performance management.
Experience leading through a matrix organization and influencing senior leaders across functions and geographies.
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP or IFRS, management accounting, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, and financial controls.
Advanced analytical and financial-modeling capability.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, enterprise reporting tools, consolidation systems, and ERP environments.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including communicating complex issues clearly to executive and operational audiences.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or professional certification such as CPA, CMA, or equivalent.
Experience with acquisitions, due diligence, post-acquisition integration, ERP implementation or conversion, and finance process transformation.
Cross-border experience.

Responsibilities

Act as the principal financial advisor to the Segment President and BSPS Leadership Team, providing fact-based insight on performance, priorities, risks, and opportunities.
Contribute to segment strategy, annual operating priorities, long-range plans, investment decisions, and resource allocation.
Build financial scenarios and challenge commercial, operational, and investment assumptions.
Translate financial results into executive-level messages for leadership, business reviews, board materials, forecasts, and planning discussions.
Promote collaboration across BSPS businesses and with other segments and divisions to identify synergies and improve ways of working.
Lead annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and short-term forecast processes, ensuring timely submissions, aligned assumptions, and clear explanations of changes.
Lead monthly business reviews and quarterly financial reviews, analyzing sales, orders, growth, margins, EBIT, cash flow, working capital, headcount, capital spending, and other key performance indicators.
Evaluate performance by business, product, market, customer, and cost category; identify root causes and coordinate corrective actions.
Oversee financial models, management reporting, scorecards, bridges, and dashboards, and monitor execution against plans, forecasts, targets, and improvement commitments.
Ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting in accordance with ASSA ABLOY requirements, applicable accounting principles, and local statutory requirements.
Oversee month-end and year-end close, consolidation, account review, significant estimates, reserves, intercompany matters, and management reporting.
Maintain review processes for revenue, margins, inventory, warranty, receivables, fixed assets, accruals, provisions, and unusual or non-recurring transactions.
Ensure consistent accounting treatment, mapping, and reporting across entities, including during system conversions, integrations, or organizational changes.
Coordinate with internal and external auditors and ensure timely resolution of audit findings and recurring control observations.
Drive cash management and working-capital performance across accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and other working-capital categories.
Lead reviews of DSO, overdue receivables, credit risk, inventory aging and reserves, payment terms, capital expenditures, and cash conversion.
Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, and finance teams on practical actions to improve cash flow while protecting customer service and business continuity.
Ensure appropriate financial governance over credit, collections, spending, capital investment, and asset disposals.
Lead the segment internal control and compliance agenda and promote accountability across entities.
Own implementation and annual maintenance of the Authorization Manual and Delegation of Authority matrix, including thresholds, approvals, communication, and entity-level adoption.
Support applicable Group, Division, segment, and local policies and legal, tax, treasury, insurance, trade compliance, and other governance requirements.
Identify financial and operational risks, escalate material matters, and verify that corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
Reinforce the four-eyes principle, segregation of duties, contract and spending controls, and complete audit trails.
Lead or support acquisition financial evaluation and due diligence, including quality of earnings, working capital, valuation inputs, risk assessment, and integration planning.
Provide finance leadership for post-acquisition integration, including reporting, controls, accounting policies, treasury, systems, close processes, and organizational alignment.
Participate in ERP conversions and other business-system initiatives, ensuring financial requirements, controls, data integrity, testing, and readiness are addressed.
Sponsor finance process improvement, standardization, automation, and reporting initiatives.
Provide financial governance for major strategic and operational projects, including business cases, milestones, benefits, risks, and post-implementation review.
Lead, coach, and develop the BSPS finance team, setting expectations for ownership, quality, timeliness, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
Build succession depth and organizational capability through talent assessment, development plans, cross-training, and delegation.
Create an effective matrix finance community across operating businesses while respecting local accountability and business needs.
Promote a collaborative, practical, high-performance culture grounded in empowerment, innovation, integrity, and respectful challenge.
Maintain strong working relationships and communicate complex financial matters clearly and constructively.
Provide independent financial judgment and challenge proposals when assumptions, returns, risks, controls, or strategic alignment are not sufficiently supported.
Recommend approval, revision, escalation, or rejection of financially significant matters within established authority.
Ensure leaders understand the financial consequences of decisions and that approved actions are accurately reflected in forecasts, plans, reporting, and performance commitments.
Escalate material financial, compliance, liquidity, reporting, or control concerns to the Segment President and Division CFO as appropriate.