Director, Operational Finance

Director, Operational Finance

Position Summary / Key Job Responsibilities:
Purpose of the Position:
Ensure that the Company's product costing and inventory practices are aligned with corporate strategy, useful in decision making, and compliant with US GAAP.
Continuously monitor, evaluate, and lead changes in various internal business practices that either decrease profitability or reward improper behaviors or decisions (i.e. transfer pricing policies, transactional authority requirements, product pricing, etc.).
Facilitate and control quarterly and monthly financial analysis that allows for consistent financial narratives and insights to management, the Board of Directors, and the investment community.
Provide financial oversight and diligence to the capital expenditure process to ensure that the Company's capital is being deployed in a way that reduces risk and maximizes potential return.
Co-Lead the financial task force for any acquisition integration team.
Address demands from strategic business initiatives (i.e. Program management, growth of value-stream initiatives, cost management, decentralization, supply-chain management, etc.) and transforming financial processes to support these initiatives as well as to partner with business leaders to ensure the financial success of such initiatives.
Support the EVP Operations with the continuous enhancement of performance management reporting, financial planning & analysis, the identification of profit enhancing opportunities, and coaching Business Unit Controllers to do the same locally.
Address demands from business operations requiring better insight to financial and operational performance of the business
Drive to provide more forward-looking financial outlooks (i.e. develop driver-based planning, efficient and effective scenario analysis for decision making, beyond budgeting, etc.)
Participate in advancements in new IT infrastructure and/or capabilities (i.e. managing system changes and initiatives from an operational finance perspective as well as accounting)
Participate in ways to reduce the cost and/or improve the productivity/value from the finance organization
Improve finance functions and processes that need to be integrated (i.e. cost accounting methodologies should be consistent across BU's and be integrated and useful with the quotation and customer/product evaluation process)
These highly important and valuable objectives should be coordinated globally, not by segment, in order facilitate the coordinated business model that RTI strives to become in the future picture.
The creation and fulfillment of this position will align operational finance policies and initiatives globally with the RTI strategic plan and provide a financial business partner to functional, program, and segment leadership who will have both the resources and authority to drive and manage change throughout the finance organization.
Responsibilities:
Understand the corporate strategy (short and long-term) and align the priorities, policies, and processes of the global finance/accounting organization
Partner with the functional, segment, and program leadership to ensure the financial success of strategic initiatives through risk assessment and mitigation, cost management, financial system integration, management of financial metrics and timely reporting, etc.
Support the Program Management Office for our most significant integrated product line with customer relationship management, financial analysis, and certain integration coordination in a way that identifies and achieves improvements in program profitability.
Set, communicate, and enforce operational accounting (i.e. standard setting methodologies that facilitate proper quotation analysis) and financial reporting policies, formats, procedures, etc. that provide timely and valuable information to the appropriate managers who can use it to make effective decisions.
Partner with functional, segment, and program leadership as well as the Financial Forecasting team, to improve and execute the forecasting process and to develop the best business planning process for RTI.
Manage the prioritization and implementation of financial related change initiatives, including policy, procedural, reporting, system, and other continuous improvement and strategic changes.
Manage the effectiveness of the segment controllers, whose priorities are to ensure compliance with US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley in a timely and efficient manner and to support the business through the execution of operational finance initiatives and coordination with segment and business unit leadership teams.

Qualifications / Requirements:
Degree in Business related field, preferably Finance or Accounting; CPA and MBA preferred

12-18 years cross functional experience in multiple areas including but not limited to audit, controlling, financial planning & analysis, financial systems, cost accounting
Experience in manufacturing environment with a public company
Knowledge of GAAP, Financial Reporting
Strong leadership skills (manage & motivate)
Strong problem solving analytical skills
Change management skills
Systems: Hyperion and SAP preferred
Ability to work with others and past experience working and developing strong relationships with operations