Overview
This role serves as the Power Transformers CFO and acts as a strategic finance partner to the Product Line General Manager. The position holds financial responsibility for a global business generating more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue. Reporting to the Global Power Transmission CFO, the leader will drive profitable growth, margin expansion, and cash generation while supporting manufacturing capacity expansion and disciplined capital allocation.
As part of the product line leadership team, this CFO translates business strategy into financial and operational plans, strengthens commercial and execution discipline, and improves performance across the global manufacturing footprint. The role leads a global finance organization and develops talent while advancing standardization, automation, and analytical capabilities to strengthen Finance’s impact on business decisions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Product Line General Manager to shape and execute business strategy, aligning growth priorities, manufacturing capacity, investment decisions, and financial commitments.
- Lead financial performance across the product line with accountability for P&L, balance sheet, and free cash flow, ensuring clear ownership and delivery of commitments across regions and operating sites.
- Lead long-term strategic planning, annual budgeting, and forecasting, connecting market demand, backlog conversion, production capacity, and resource requirements to financial outcomes.
- Drive operating reviews to identify performance gaps early, assess risks and opportunities, and establish corrective actions with measurable outcomes.
- Partner with manufacturing and supply chain leaders on sales and operations planning, translating production hours, labor utilization, productivity, factory output, and delivery performance into financial insights and actions.
- Strengthen project margin management through rigorous reviews of cost estimates, execution progress, contingencies, and contractual exposures, enabling early intervention to protect profitability.
- Partner with Commercial leadership on pricing, deal underwriting, contract negotiations, and risk reviews to ensure order quality, margin protection, and appropriate payment terms.
- Drive cost competitiveness with Operations, Engineering, and Sourcing through material productivity, design improvements, labor efficiency, overhead discipline, and Lean initiatives.
- Lead working capital improvement, focusing on inventory, billing milestones, collections, overdue receivables, and supplier payment terms.
- Evaluate and oversee capital expenditure and capacity expansion programs, ensuring sound business cases, execution discipline, and delivery of expected financial and operational returns.
- Support footprint optimization, restructuring, and acquisition integration, including financial evaluation, synergy delivery, and alignment of finance processes and controls.
- Ensure accurate financial reporting, balance sheet integrity, and adherence to accounting policies, internal controls, and delegated authorities in partnership with Controllership.
- Simplify and standardize finance processes across sites and regions by expanding automation and digital analytics to improve insight, forecast reliability, and finance productivity.
- Build and develop a strong global finance team, strengthening business partnership, accountability, succession planning, and collaboration across product line, regional, and corporate teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline, with substantial progressive finance experience and demonstrated success in senior leadership roles.
- Experience leading finance for a complex industrial or manufacturing business, with responsibility for P&L performance, balance sheet management, and cash generation.
- Strong operational finance expertise, including manufacturing cost structures, capacity planning, labor utilization, inventory, capital investment, and productivity.
- Commercial and project finance experience, including pricing, contract risk assessment, project margin reviews, and management of long cycle customer contracts.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into actionable plans, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive delivery of financial commitments.
- Experience leading global teams and influencing decisions across a matrix organization, with credibility to partner effectively with senior business and functional leaders.
- A track record of improving margins, working capital, and forecast accuracy while maintaining strong financial controls.
- Experience driving transformation through standardization, process improvement, automation, and organizational change.
- Strong analytical judgment and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations and decisions.
- Proven commitment to developing talent, building inclusive teams, and maintaining high standards of integrity and accountability.
Preferred Qualifications
- A professional accounting qualification or advanced degree.
- Experience in power equipment or transformers.
- Exposure to acquisition integration would be advantageous.
Compensation & Benefits
- Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus (for candidates applying to a U.S. based position only).
- Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Access to Health Coach (24/7 nurse-based resource).
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program (24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services).
- Retirement benefits include the Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, plus access to Fidelity Executive Services.
- Additional benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off, and the Restoration Plan (a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits).
Location
Remote position. For candidates applying to a U.S. based position only: this role requires legal authorization to work in the United States for this opening.
Additional Information
- This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on أكتوبر 27, 2026.
- Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
- Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).