Americas Commercial Finance Manager

**Job Description Summary**: Responsible to develop innovative solutions to deliver Customer outcomes and drive growth while managing company risk/reward Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

**Job Description Summary**

The Commercial Financial Manager serves as a business partner to the General Manager and Operating teams to drive business initiatives, growth, business strategy and profitability for the Power Conversion business. The role is responsible for supporting commercial execution and recommending best financial outcomes to drive long term profitable growth.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Partner with Commercial Sales leaders and staff to drive operating performance & act as champion for strategic initiatives within the organization.
- Drive profitable growth with key focus on pricing, margins, cash, cost productivity, and simplification.
- Participate in contract negotiations with external parties to identify offerings that fits the customer needs.
- Lead development of monthly P&L forecasts coordinating with cross functional teams and perform variances analysis to provide insights to Commercial Sales Leaders as well as recommending actions.
- Support monthly operating reviews and monthly pulse along with tracking KPIs and bowlers to achieve.
- Improve efficiencies and performance as well as providing quality financial information. Actively participate with sales leadership to improve productivity and sales force effectiveness.
- Develop and improve financial processes: Finance reporting tools, Management reporting tools, budgeting and estimating processes.
- Assist with management reporting and communicate results to managers.
- Develop new reports for process improvements.
- Complete all planned Quality & Compliance training within the defined deadlines.
- Identify and report any quality or compliance concerns and take immediate corrective action as required.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
- Financial work experience that entails budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, business partnership.
- Confidence / Assertiveness: possess influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives.
- Experience working across multiple levels (including executive level), functions and regions; able to clearly communicate complex financial information in a easy to understand manner; able to deliver message effectively verbally and in writing.

Desired Qualifications:

- Masters’ degree in Business Administration
- Strong analytic skills: able to clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change
- Clear thinking, problem solving, experience in successfully leading cross-functional projects/process improvement within operations/finance function.
- Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and process improvement within the operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas.
- Experience in a matrixed environment
- Adaptable/flexible: being open to change (positive or negative) in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and/or to work in ambiguous situations.
- Basic understanding of financial compliance: SOX, GAAP
- Trained and/or certified in process improvement methodology such as LEAN or Six Sigma

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**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No

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