Director, Finance - Samuel Engineered Systems Group

Samuel is seeking a Director of Finance to lead the finance function across our Engineered Systems Group. This is a highly visible leadership role for a finance professional who wants to do more than report the numbers. You will help shape strategy, strengthen financial performance, build scalable processes, and influence decisions across a complex, multi-site manufacturing business.

Responsibilities

- Enterprise Finance Leadership: Lead the SESG finance function across all businesses and locations, establishing financial priorities, standards, governance, and operating cadence.

- Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as the principal finance partner to the President and SESG leadership team, bringing financial insight to key business and strategic decisions.

- Planning & Forecasting: Own the Annual Operating Plan, monthly forecasts, long-range financial plans, target setting, and financial modeling.

- Performance & Profitability: Translate financial results into actionable insights that improve revenue, margin, operating profit, productivity, and cost performance.

- Operational & Commercial Finance: Lead customer, product, project, site, contribution-margin, manufacturing, pricing, and ROI analysis.

- Working Capital & Cash Flow: Drive disciplined management of receivables, inventory, payables, milestone billing, customer advances, and cash conversion.

- Finance Center of Excellence: Standardize financial processes, reporting, controls, KPIs, tools, and accountabilities across SESG while building scalable capabilities that support a One SESG operating model.

- Accounting, Controls & Compliance: Maintain accountability for accounting, close, costing, inventory accounting, internal controls, audit readiness, and compliance through the Controller organization.

- Capital & Strategic Decision Support: Lead financial analysis supporting capital investment, make-versus-buy decisions, restructuring, growth initiatives, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic decisions.

- Systems & Data: Provide finance leadership for IFS, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and related financial and reporting systems while driving automation, data integrity, and process simplification.

- Team Leadership: Build and develop a high-performing finance organization with clear accountability, strong succession and backup coverage, and a culture of continuous improvement.

- Risk Management: Identify and communicate financial, operational, control, and systems risks with fact-based recommendations and timely escalation.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field required.

- MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional designation preferred.

- Minimum of 8 years of progressive finance experience , including significant leadership responsibility.

- Strong manufacturing finance experience, including costing, inventory, margins, and operational performance.

- Experience leading finance within a multi-site or complex business environment strongly preferred.

- Strong knowledge of financial planning, forecasting, modeling, management reporting, financial controls, and IFRS.

- Experience with ERP and financial reporting systems required. Experience with IFS, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and FCCS is an asset.

- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions constructively, and turn complex financial information into clear business decisions.

- Proven ability to lead change, standardize processes, and improve financial discipline across an organization.

- Strong people leadership, coaching, communication, and presentation skills.