AMG: VP, Finance

Kanbrick•Portage, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

American Motion Group (AMG) is seeking a VP of Finance for their growing industrial distribution business. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on owning financial planning, analysis, and reporting, while partnering with operations, sales, and leadership teams. The ideal candidate will be comfortable digging into data, improving processes, and driving business performance. AMG is a value-added distributor of mission-critical fluid power products, serving various markets and backed by Kanbrick, a long-term investment partner. The company is experiencing aggressive growth and is building its finance function for scale.

Requirements

Progressive finance experience with increasing scope and responsibility.
Sharp in financial modeling, FP&A, and business partnering.
Experience building or significantly improving budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes from the ground up.
Energized by working inside a growing, fast-moving organization.
Ability to see a broken process, own fixing it, and bring others along.
Ability to communicate financial findings in plain language and earn credibility with non-finance leaders.
Takes initiative — identifies what needs to change before being asked.

Nice To Haves

Experience in value-added distribution, industrial distribution, or manufacturing.
Exposure to NetSuite or ERP-based financial reporting and analytics.
Experience supporting M&A analysis, due diligence, or post-acquisition integration.
CPA or MBA.

Responsibilities

Lead the budgeting and forecasting process by business segment, providing visibility across all locations and business units.
Build and maintain monthly forecasts, financial models, and operating dashboards that leaders actually use.
Analyze segment profitability, margin trends, and cost structure — and push for the changes that improve them.
Embed with Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain — understand their world, earn their trust, and hold them accountable.
Develop pricing and margin analytics to protect and grow profitability.
Monitor inventory performance, working capital, and cash flow with a bias toward action.
Translate financial data into clear, direct insights that shape operational decisions.
Ensure accurate and timely monthly financial reporting with real variance analysis — not just variance reporting.
Strengthen and expand NetSuite reporting and financial analytics capabilities.
Build the financial infrastructure and controls the business needs as it doubles and triples in size.
Partner with the President on acquisitions — financial modeling, due diligence, and integration planning.
Evaluate capital investments and strategic opportunities with rigor and speed.
Help define what AMG's finance function needs to look like at $100M, $250M, and beyond.
Work closely with the accounting team to ensure strong day-to-day financial operations.
Build a culture of financial accountability across every part of the business.
Identify process gaps, call them out, and fix them.