The client is seeking an Americas region finance lead to serve as a primary financial advisor and business partner to the regional executive. This role will shape business strategy, growth priorities, and resource allocation, providing real-time financial insights and decision support on key challenges, investments, partnerships, and strategic initiatives. The position is expected to ensure financial considerations are embedded in major decisions while constructively challenging assumptions to drive disciplined, profitable growth.
Responsibilities include leading annual strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, as well as supporting growth, commercial finance, and market expansion. The role will help expansion into new markets, channels, and customer segments through robust financial modeling and scenario analysis, and will develop financial frameworks for areas such as new product launches, go-to-market strategies, pricing architecture, and promotional return on investment. It will also support pricing, customer profitability, portfolio and channel optimization using risk-adjusted returns, and ongoing performance monitoring with actionable executive-level insights.
The client finance lead will own and maintain integrated financial models across profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow to provide a single source of truth, and will provide analytical support for capital allocation and business performance improvement. The role will analyze channel, product, and customer mix to inform decision-making, drive working capital optimization across inventory, receivables, and payables, and partner with operations and supply chain to improve cost efficiency, productivity, and margin. It will also build and lead a high-performing regional finance team, evolve the finance function into an insight-driven commercial partner, establish strong financial controls and governance, and align regional and global finance teams while maintaining transparency and accountability.