Manufacturing Finance Director - West

James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie® products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization, with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees across operations in North America.

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The Manufacturing Director Finance - West is responsible for forward-looking partnership to drive achievement of goals and objectives across our Western network of 4 sites. This role is responsible for long-range strategic planning, business partnering to drive optimal decisions, the annual operating plan, and leading the monthly forecast and business performance assessment. In addition to working across the North America functional leadership to support business decision-making, the Finance Director plays a key role in advancing the planning environment, including a leadership role in the finance IT systems strategy and process redesign and implementation as well as ongoing updates. The Director Finance West plants is also responsible for the accurate reporting of result, maintenance of the company’s assets and maintaining a rigorous internal and SOX control environment.

The Director Finance West plants report directly into the Sr Director Manufacturing Finance North America.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with business leaders, plant finance leaders, and staff to build and set out the strategic direction and key business priorities.
• Serve as a crucial thought partner in charting and implementing the relevant business or region strategic and financial plans.
• Act as a catalyst for the initiatives, programs, and activities necessary to achieve desired performance.
• Drive long term profitable growth and support business decision making by providing insightful analysis of key investments and establishing key metrics while evaluating risks and opportunities.
• Foster a strong control environment in the plant and ensure balance sheet integrity and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Adhere to sound internal control processes, improve any control deficiencies, and set the proper routines and processes related to internal controls.  Mitigate business risks as they are identified.
• Work cross-functionally with central accounting and cost teams to lead control and efficiency initiatives resulting in a better control environment that is easier to monitor. 
• Drive standardization, process improvement, and best practice implementation in partnership with other finance leaders across the regional finance team across
• Manage a complete and thorough month end close process, including owning all plant accounting operations, reporting, and plant financial statements.
• Prepare and manage the annual budget process, and coordinate and manage regular forecast updates.
• Analyze and interpret plant operation results, evaluating variances, and assessing the effects on the plant’s operations
• Provide analysis and recommendations on expenditures and capital investment decision support.
• Drive resource optimization and prudent expense management across the business or region.
• Build a robust financial management tools and frameworks that drive forward-looking analytics and predictable results and optimizing business decision making
• Lead long-range strategic plan and one-year operating plan in partnership across relevant business leadership
• Drive forward-looking financial analytics to drive action that achieve business goals
• Provide future-forward strategic decision support through insightful, operational recommendations
• Drive the insights and analysis to enable clarity regarding opportunities and progress against actions and goals
• Develop the one source of truth for relevant metrics
• Pursue standardization and process improvements in the systems and tools that are used to enable scalable and simple trends and insights
• Identify, implement, and develop the resources, capabilities, and individuals required to deliver a leading Finance organization
• Develop clear roles, responsibilities, and measurable goals that are directly tied to Company strategy 
• Participate in cross-finance and cross-functional engagement initiatives and activities

What You’ll Bring: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting required
• Advanced degree, e.g., MBA, preferred
• 15+ years finance experience, required
• 5+ years Operations/Manufacturing Finance experience required
• Minimum 5 years managing, leading, and developing a team required
• Major ERP experience required; SAP preferred
• Located in or willing to relocate to the following areas: Chicago or Peru, IL; Tacoma, WA; Reno, NV; Fontana, CA; Waxahachie or Cleburne, TX; Prattville, AL; Plant City, FL; Pulaski, VA; Summerville, SC; Westfield, MA 

Desired Skills

• Ability to identify and understand business issues, problems, and opportunities
• Ability to connect the bigger picture to the day-to-day operations of the organization and expertise in connecting operational activity to financial implication
• Proven ability to synthesize complex and detailed data into meaningful conclusions and insights
• Demonstrated experience as a collaborative business partner, adept in building cross-functional relationships to drive business result with ability to constructively challenge business partner assumptions and goals

• Strong knowledge of GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley

• Demonstrated ability to identify problems and think independently about alternative ways to solve problems based on data analysis
• Enable and drive the building of scalable systems to enable more insights and less reporting and data manipulation
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to convey ideas to a diverse audience; Articulates views in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to present compelling arguments to support positions and uses narratives, like stories and analogies, to communicate messages
• Ability to anticipate questions and prepares appropriate responses or answers
• Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to build, lead, and develop a team to produce quality results in an efficient manner and simultaneously manage several projects.

What You’ll Receive:

At James Hardie, we recognize that our success depends on our people. We've worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.

• Comprehensive low-cost co-pay Health Insurance; medical, dental, prescription, and vision insurance benefits for every 30+ hour full-time employee. Insurance starts on day one!
• 401(k) Retirement plan that will match 100% of employees saved dollars up to the first 6% of your salary
• Paid holidays, paid vacation including Jury Duty and bereavement leave
• Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
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The expected salary range for this position is between $180,000 and $240,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, market conditions, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position qualifies for benefits which may also include a discretionary bonus and equity program.

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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, veteran's status, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or any other basis protected by law.