Senior Finance Director, Laboratory Chemicals Division

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead finance partner to the Division President and leadership team, sharing accountability for overall business and financial performance.
• Shape strategy through insights on growth opportunities, portfolio decisions, pricing, productivity, and resource allocation.
• Lead long-range planning and strategic initiatives that accelerate revenue growth, margin expansion, and ROI.
• Translate market, customer, and operational trends into clear recommendations and actions.
• Lead the annual operating plan, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning for the $600M+ Division.
• Drive rigorous forecasting with clear visibility into business and site-level performance, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
• Deliver actionable insights across revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, and cash flow.
• Build a deep understanding of manufacturing costs and operational drivers to improve predictability and performance.
• Establish meaningful KPIs and business review processes that strengthen accountability and decision-making.
• Anticipate emerging risks and opportunities and enable leaders to take action before they impact results.
• Partner with Commercial and Marketing on pricing strategy, profitability, sales analytics, and revenue growth management.
• Evaluate growth investments, go-to-market initiatives, customer programs, and commercial productivity.
• Support portfolio decisions through analysis of mix, margin, lifecycle, and customer and regional trends.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sourcing, and Manufacturing to improve productivity, inventory, margins, and cost competitiveness.
• Develop first-hand knowledge of site operations and turn operational performance into financial insights and actions.
• Provide financial leadership across manufacturing efficiency, costing, procurement, freight, and supply chain optimization.
• Lead margin improvement and productivity initiatives with accountability for measurable results.
• Guide capital investments in capacity, automation, network optimization, and operational improvements.
• Maintain strong financial controls, compliance, and disciplined financial processes.
• Oversee monthly and quarterly close activities in partnership with Corporate Finance and Controllership.
• Ensure appropriate governance around forecasts, investments, reporting accuracy, accounting standards, and internal controls.
• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing finance team.
• Build organizational capability and succession pipelines while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop finance talent to operate as strategic business partners and trusted advisors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including significant experience supporting a manufacturing business.
• Experience leading finance for a sizable business, business unit, or region with complex P&L responsibility.
• Strong expertise in FP&A, business partnering, commercial finance, and operational finance.
• Proven success partnering with senior leaders to drive profitable growth and performance improvement.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with the ability to translate data into strategic insights.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and developing talent.
• Excellent executive communication and influencing skills.