Vice President, Finance

ASSA ABLOY•Tulsa, OK

6h•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President, Finance for the Business Segment Perimeter Security (BSPS) is the 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 provides financial leadership across planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, cash flow and working capital, internal control, compliance, systems, acquisitions, and performance improvement. The position is accountable for the integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of financial information across the segment and its operating businesses. It translates strategy into financial plans, challenges assumptions, identifies risks and opportunities, and supports disciplined decisions that improve growth, profitability, cash generation, and long-term value creation. The role provides segment-level financial leadership across Ameristar, B&B Roadway and Security Solutions, Iron Eagle, and Wallace North America. It leads and develops a distributed finance organization—including business finance leaders, controllers, financial planning and analysis, and shared-service resources—in a matrix environment. The Vice President 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. The role supports a multi-entity, cross-border manufacturing and service environment with differing ERP platforms, operating models, and statutory requirements. The Vice President leads financial strategy and business partnership; planning, forecasting, and performance management; accounting, reporting, and financial integrity; cash flow and working capital; internal control, compliance, and governance; acquisition evaluation and integration; transformation; and finance organization development. The role provides independent financial judgment, advises and constructively challenges leaders, recommends action on financially significant matters within established authority, and escalates material concerns as appropriate. Success is measured by accurate and timely reporting and forecasting; achievement of segment growth, profitability, cash flow, working-capital, and cost-management commitments; effective business reviews and follow-through; sustained compliance with control, audit, reporting, and Delegation of Authority requirements; successful acquisition integration and delivery of transformation benefits; development of a capable finance organization; and trusted partnership with segment, entity, division, and functional leadership. This is an office-based leadership role with regular interaction across BSPS locations and with Division and Group stakeholders. It requires regular travel within the United States and Canada, with periodic international travel as business needs require, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and support critical reporting periods and business events. Responsibilities may evolve with business needs. ASSA ABLOY describes itself as the global leader in access solutions, with nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 countries. The company says it values results, empowers employees to develop careers aligned with their aspirations, supports development through feedback, training, and development opportunities, and values diverse and inclusive teams and different perspectives and experiences.

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 the ability to communicate complex issues clearly to executive and operational audiences.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and support critical reporting periods and business events.
Regular travel within the United States and Canada, with periodic international travel as business needs require.

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

Serve as the principal financial advisor to the Segment President and BSPS Leadership Team, providing 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; communicate financial results for leadership, business reviews, board materials, forecasts, and planning discussions.
Promote collaboration across BSPS businesses and with other segments and divisions to identify synergies, share resources, and improve ways of working.
Lead annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and short-term forecast processes, ensuring timely submissions, aligned assumptions, and explanations of changes.
Lead monthly business reviews and quarterly financial reviews covering sales, orders, organic 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 with accountable leaders.
Oversee segment financial models, management reporting, scorecards, bridges, and dashboards; establish financial priorities and monitor performance against plans, forecasts, targets, and improvement commitments.
Ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting under ASSA ABLOY reporting 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, particularly during system conversions, integrations, and 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 performance.
Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, and finance teams on practical actions to improve cash flow while supporting customer service and business continuity.
Ensure financial governance over credit, collections, spending, capital investment, and asset disposals.
Lead the segment internal control and compliance agenda and promote consistent 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 adherence to Group, Division, segment, and local policies and applicable legal, tax, treasury, insurance, trade compliance, and other governance requirements.
Identify financial and operational risks, escalate material matters promptly, and verify corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
Reinforce the four-eyes principle, segregation of duties, sound 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 during post-acquisition integration across 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 that improve efficiency, visibility, and control.
Provide financial governance for 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 thoughtful delegation.
Create an effective matrix finance community across operating businesses while respecting local accountability and business needs.
Promote a collaborative, practical, and high-performance culture grounded in empowerment, innovation, integrity, and respectful challenge.
Maintain working relationships across organizational levels and communicate complex financial matters clearly, constructively, and actionably.
Provide independent financial judgment and challenge proposals when assumptions, returns, risk, controls, or strategic alignment are insufficiently supported.
Recommend approval, revision, escalation, or rejection of investments, contracts, spending commitments, forecasts, reserves, and other significant financial 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.