Finance Manager
Volk Optical Inc. · Mentor, OH · 6 days ago
FinanceFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic business partner to Sales and leadership, helping shape commercial strategy with actionable analytics and insights.
- Translate strategy into financial outcomes, driving profitable revenue growth and margin expansion.
- Actively support M&A activities including financial analysis and valuation modeling, financial due diligence, and integration.
- Drive commercial finance activities such as pricing strategy, price-volume-mix analysis, customer profitability, and deal and investment evaluation.
- Lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A) including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and delivering actionable insights through variance analysis and financial modeling.
- Own the full financial close and reporting process, ensuring accurate financial statements, strong internal controls, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, R&D, HR, and IT to evaluate investments, improve productivity, and optimize working capital and operational efficiency.
- Provide financial leadership and governance, including coaching the finance team, supporting board/parent reporting (Halma), and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making.
Qualifications
- A strong commercial mindset with a track record of partnering with Sales and Operations leaders to drive revenue and margin growth, and the ability to influence non-finance stakeholders.
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including commercial finance, FP&A, and accounting close.
- 5+ years of people leadership or senior individual contributor experience in a complex environment.
- An MBA or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, or a related field.
- CPA, CMA, CFA, or CGMA certification preferred.