Regional Controller - The Americas

About Us

Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM) creates breakthrough products that shape industries. Working in close partnership with our customers, we solve complex engineering challenges to transform the way we fly, drive, and power. Howmet Wheel Systems (HWS), a business unit of Howmet Aerospace, invented the forged wheel in 1948 and remains the global leader in providing safe, strong, lightweight, and innovative aluminum transportation products. HWS employs 1,900 people at 14 locations worldwide and produces over 4 million aluminum wheels globally. Our customers trust us to deliver dependable products that improve fuel economy and increase payload.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic financial leadership for all North America and South America operations, ensuring alignment with corporate financial objectives and business strategy.
• Serve as the primary financial partner to the VP of Finance, overseeing a team of Plant Controllers responsible for multiple manufacturing facilities.
• Ensure the integrity of regional financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, internal controls, compliance, and manufacturing accounting processes.
• Drive consistency, standardization, and continuous improvement across all locations in North and South America, including Cleveland Manufacturing, Barberton Wheel Plant, Barberton Cast House, Monterey Manufacturing, and Brazil.
• Lead cost analysis and pricing proposals to improve profitability and cash flow.
• Oversee the monthly close process, ensuring timely, accurate, and consistent financial reporting while resolving significant issues impacting results.
• Review and consolidate regional financial results, communicating key risks, opportunities, and performance trends to executive leadership.
• Lead regional forecasting, annual operating plan, and long-range financial planning processes, ensuring alignment across manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and corporate finance organizations.
• Drive forecast accuracy and financial discipline by reviewing plant forecasts, challenging assumptions, and ensuring consistency across all locations.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, and executive leadership to identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, working capital, and overall business performance.
• Establish and maintain standardized accounting policies, internal controls, and financial processes across all sites to ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Provide governance over inventory accounting, manufacturing cost accounting, account reconciliations, and financial controls while ensuring consistency across all plants.
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, internal control standards, ASAT completion, and corporate accounting policies, driving timely resolution of identified control gaps.
• Serve as the regional finance leader for Internal Audit, external audit, and corporate finance activities, coordinating audit readiness and ensuring timely responses to audit requests.
• Oversee regional inventory control processes, including physical inventory programs, cycle count compliance, inventory valuation, and reconciliation activities.
• Monitor capital expenditures and significant financial initiatives to ensure appropriate financial controls and return on investment.
• Identify financial risks, operational challenges, and emerging business trends across the region, developing action plans in partnership with Plant Controllers and operational leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance financial reporting, standardize processes, strengthen controls, and improve operational efficiency.
• Support strategic initiatives affecting North America manufacturing locations.
• Perform strategic financial analyses and executive-level reporting as requested by the HWS VP of Finance and senior leadership.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 10 years’ financial analysis experience, preferably with Plant Controllership experience.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess or currently working towards obtaining CPA and/or MBA.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and auditing principles and practices.
• Experience with data querying tools, Oracle, and Hyperion.
• Robust background in cost accounting and/or financial analysis within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills, with a self-motivated, team-oriented perspective.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Ability to learn quickly, work on multiple concurrent assignments, and complete assignments in a timely and organized approach.