Director, Finance IMO

About the role

The Director, Finance IMO role at Dauch is responsible for leading the Finance Integration Management Office for enterprise initiatives such as M&A integrations, major reorganizations, and Finance transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Stands up and runs Finance integration governance (steering routines, workstream check-ins, decision/issue escalation paths) to ensure timely decisions and consistent execution across the integration portfolio.
• Owes the integrated Finance master plan: milestones, interdependencies, critical path, readiness gates, and status reporting.
• Drives meeting rigor and audit quality (charters, decision logs, cutover plans, status dashboards, executive readouts).
• Coordinates with business leadership to build and maintain a value-capture tracker: synergy initiatives, owners, timing, financial validation methodology, and realization reporting.
• Tracks and reports one-time vs. run-rate synergy impacts, one-time integration costs, and dyssynergies.
• Ensures visibility to leadership on ROI, progress, and risks to the deal thesis/value plan.
• Establishes performance management routines and metrics (e.g., close stability, reporting accuracy, cash/working capital visibility, one-time-cost burn, benefit realization).
• Oversees integration-related financial modeling and reporting requirements to inform decisions, track progress, and communicate outcomes to senior leadership.
• Prepares concise executive communications (weekly status, key decisions needed, risks/issues, and mitigation plans) and presents updates to leadership forums including CEO.
• Provides guidance and support to Acquisition and Divestiture activities as appropriate for ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with M&A team on diligence, analysis, modelling, and valuation.
• Drives disciplined data/document management for Finance integration records, ensuring secure access and standardized templates and baselines.
• Leads stakeholder alignment across Finance and cross-functional partners; anticipates friction points and drives rapid resolution with clear ownership and decision pathways.
• Supports change management initiatives (communications, training coordination, adoption tracking) to ensure business teams transition to new processes/tools with minimal disruption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance leadership, transformation, and/or post-merger integration roles.
• Demonstrated experience establishing integration governance frameworks, building execution roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams through complex change.
• Strong financial acumen: ability to translate operational execution into measurable financial outcomes (cost, cash, productivity, synergy capture).
• Excellent executive communication, structured problem solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive or other manufacturing experience including plant-finance experience.
• MBA or Master’s degree in Finance/Business.
• Certifications such as PMP/PMI, CPA, or CMA.
• Experience with large-scale finance process/ERP harmonization and data governance initiatives.