VP, Commericial Controlling

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Scout Motors is building its commercial finance function from the ground up ahead of launch. The Commercial Controlling team sits at the center of how the company’s sales and marketing organizations operate and scale, translating business activity into accurate financials, disciplined decision-making, and clear performance insight across vehicle sales, aftersales, retail, and brand. This role will set the strategic direction for commercial and brand controlling, defining the operating model, financial frameworks, and guardrails in alignment with corporate strategy. The position will own the financial management of commercial and brand operations, ensuring accurate planning, cost integrity, and reliable financial reporting across all business lines. It also involves owning the end-to-end execution and financial integrity of the commercial and brand controlling function, ensuring disciplined month-end close, accurate accruals and provisions, alignment between financial results and underlying business activity, and clear, actionable variance analysis against forecast and plan. The role includes owning FP&A and management reporting, such as consolidated P&L views, budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario modeling, and proactively identifying risks and opportunities. Additionally, the VP will own financial governance and serve as the senior finance approval authority for guardrails, policies, and approval frameworks across pricing, incentives, marketing spend, and commercial investments, ensuring consistent adherence to financial controls. The position requires serving as the senior finance partner to commercial and brand leadership, shaping decisions while maintaining financial discipline and accountability, and partnering with enterprise financial planning and accounting to ensure full alignment with company-level P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and statutory requirements. Defining financial system and data requirements in partnership with digital finance to enable scalable reporting and decision support, and designing and scaling the commercial finance organization, including structure, leadership layers, and hiring strategy across all business lines are also key responsibilities. This includes owning hiring strategy and leadership hiring decisions, and leading and developing a high-performing team, establishing accountability, strong technical standards, and a culture of effective financial partnership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA preferred)
• 15+ years in business controlling, FP&A, or commercial finance leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading and scaling a full commercial finance function, including organizational design and hiring at all levels from analysts through directors
• Proven ability to operate as a senior finance executive influencing C-level stakeholders and shaping business decisions at the highest levels
• Deep expertise in cost controlling, financial planning, governance, and reporting across complex multi-business-line operations
• Strong experience defining financial frameworks and operating models in high-growth or highly ambiguous environments
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA financial architecture and management reporting structures
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic leadership and financial discipline, acting as both a decision partner and control function
• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, positive attitude, and a growth mindset
• Comfortable with change and flexible in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic direction for commercial and brand controlling, defining the operating model, financial frameworks, and guardrails in alignment with corporate strategy.
• Own the financial management of commercial and brand operations, ensuring accurate planning, cost integrity, and reliable financial reporting across all business lines.
• Own the end-to-end execution and financial integrity of the commercial and brand controlling function, ensuring disciplined month-end close, accurate accruals and provisions, alignment between financial results and underlying business activity, and clear, actionable variance analysis against forecast and plan.
• Own FP&A and management reporting, including consolidated P&L views, budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario modeling, and proactively identifying risks and opportunities with sufficient lead time for business action.
• Own financial governance and serve as the senior finance approval authority, including guardrails, policies, and approval frameworks across pricing, incentives, marketing spend, and commercial investments, and ensuring consistent adherence to financial controls across all commercial decisions.
• Serve as the senior finance partner to commercial and brand leadership, shaping decisions while maintaining financial discipline and accountability.
• Partner with enterprise financial planning and accounting to ensure full alignment with company-level P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and statutory requirements.
• Define financial system and data requirements in partnership with digital finance to enable scalable reporting and decision support.
• Design and scale the commercial finance organization, including structure, leadership layers, and hiring strategy across all business lines.
• Own hiring strategy and leadership hiring decisions, including director-level roles.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, establishing accountability, strong technical standards, and a culture of effective financial partnership.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 25 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Corporate Vehicle Program with: Eligibility for up to 2 assigned vehicles
• A mobility stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive