Director, Strategic Finance – US

Location: Germantown, Wisconsin, US

About the role

The Strategic Finance Director, Regional US is accountable for providing strategic financial partnership, insight, and challenge to regional US operations and leadership. Working within a global matrix organization, this role supports the US region while being part of a global Finance leadership team. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer with a dotted line to the regional leader (President of Americas & APAC), the role translates financial and operational data into clear recommendations, supports investment prioritization and resource allocation, and helps business leaders deliver sustainable performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as the strategic finance partner to regional US business leaders, providing insight, challenge, and recommendations that support growth, margin improvement, and disciplined investment.
• Lead, coach, and develop a cross-site finance team, building capability, consistency, and accountability across multiple locations and business areas.
• Own financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for the regional US business, ensuring assumptions are robust and aligned with operational and strategic priorities.
• Prepare clear financial analysis, business cases, and executive-ready presentations to support resource allocation, capital investment, program prioritization, and operational decision-making.
• Provide monthly performance reporting, variance analysis, and forward-looking commentary for site and group leadership, identifying risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Partner with business leaders to improve forecast accuracy, cost transparency, cash visibility, and accountability for delivery against financial commitments.
• Oversee cash forecasting, working capital visibility, customer invoicing assumptions, and forecast cash inflows and outflows for the relevant business areas.
• Support site capex forecasting, investment appraisal, and tracking of associated additions, phasing, and cash outflow forecasts.
• Ensure financial processes, controls, and reporting are aligned with Group finance policies while continuing to improve standardization, efficiency, and quality of insight.
• Responsible for all US territory-specific financial tasks, for example: tax and statutory reporting.
• Collaborate with accounting, tax, treasury, and operational teams to support month-end close, audit requirements, US tax processes, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting, systems, data quality, and financial processes, including standardization with SAP HANA and other Group finance tools where applicable.
• Build trusted relationships with financial and non-financial stakeholders, influencing decisions through clear communication, commercial curiosity, and well-supported challenge.
• Play a key role on the US multi-site Senior Leadership Teams (SLT) as an active member on both the Germantown and Cary teams.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline required; professional accountancy qualification or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience in a similar senior finance business partnering, FP&A, or divisional finance leadership role, ideally supporting regional operations, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or technical business environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading, motivating, and developing cross-site finance teams.
• Strong technical finance background across budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, standard costing, inventory reporting and control, revenue recognition, accruals, and deferred revenue.
• Proven ability to build financial models, evaluate business cases, support investment decisions, and translate complex data into practical recommendations for senior leaders.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and partner effectively with operational, commercial, and technical leaders.
• Experience with SAP HANA, planning/reporting systems, and data visualization tools is desirable.

Schedule

• Regular travel between regional US sites will be required, with additional travel for leadership meetings, planning cycles, and key business reviews.