Job Requirements
Why work for us?
Alkegen brings together two of the world’s leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we’re delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.
With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry’s most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.
The Business Unit Finance Leader would be responsible for the oversight of our Industrial Filtration Business Unit. The individual will be the right-hand person to the business unit’s Vice President and would be responsible for the strategic oversight of business profitability and sustainability, oversight of month end close process and reviews, managing a team of site controllers, ad-hoc financial analytics and long-term financial planning and analysis.
Responsibilities:
• Financial partner to Industrial Filtration (IF) Vice President, monitoring short-term and long-term financial performance and health of the overall Business & Sites
• Leading and developing IF finance team through mentoring and coaching, long-term succession planning, and setting & driving the financial strategy for team members to follow and emulate
• Play a key financial role in merger and acquisition opportunities for the business, leading strategy, modelling and understanding financial implications
• Unwavering ability to balance controllership needs with longer-term FP&A deliverables and analytics
• Compiles, manages and presents monthly reporting, all business forecasting, analytics and KPI metrics to business leadership while extracting insight and solutions to challenges
• Oversees overall month-end close process for the IF global Business Unit in coordination with site controllers (US/UK/Europe)
• Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency and cost savings in the plant, driving execution and delegation through the site controller
• Establishing structure on local ERP systems for effective data extraction & general process improvements
Key Competencies:
• Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values
• Demonstrates excellent process management and change management skills
• Exemplifies a systems-thinking mindset, being able to navigate complexity and understand secondary and tertiary financial impacts on decisions
• Develops relationships that enable effective leading, coaching, and development of team members
• Is a highly motivated problem solver able to balance priorities well under pressure
• Communicates clearly with all stakeholder groups; quickly builds trust, credibility and respect
• Effectively manages deadlines, drives execution, and has a bias towards action
Qualifications & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required
• 5-10 years of relevant experience focused on manufacturing and FP&A
• Ability and excitement to navigate a complex, fast-growing, global manufacturing and business environment
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills w/ supervisory experience leading financial teams through both controllership & FP&A duties and tasks
• Strong knowledge of and adherence to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Extremely proficient with Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint
• Experience managing multiple ERP and Financial systems
If you are interested in being part of a world class Financial function here at Alkegen then we would love to hear from you.
At Alkegen, we strive every day to help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. We believe that diversity and inclusion is central to this mission and to our impact. Our diverse and inclusive culture drives our growth & innovation, and we nurture it by actively embracing our differences and using our varied perspectives to solve the complex challenges facing our changing and diverse world.
Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, nation of origin, religion, color, gender identity and expression, age, disability, education, opinions, culture, languages spoken, veteran’s status, or any other protected class.