Overview
The Regional Finance Senior Director, North America is the senior finance leader for the region, partnering with the North America Leadership Team to drive profitable growth, operational excellence, and strategic decision-making. This role provides financial leadership across planning, forecasting, performance management, commercial decision support, governance, and business transformation. As a trusted advisor to regional leadership, the Regional Finance Director ensures financial discipline while accelerating growth and value creation.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the lead finance partner to the North America Leadership Team.
- Provide financial insight and strategic challenge to support business growth and profitability.
- Support regional strategy, investment decisions, and long-range planning.
- Drive accountability for financial performance across the region.
- Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
- Deliver monthly business reviews and executive performance reporting.
- Identify risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions.
- Monitor key financial and operational KPIs.
Commercial Finance Leadership
- Partner with Commercial and Operations teams to improve growth and profitability.
- Support major customer negotiations, strategic bids, and contract renewals.
- Lead customer profitability and pricing analyses.
- Drive initiatives focused on margin expansion and operating income improvement.
Team Leadership, Governance, and Transformation
- Lead and develop a high-performing regional finance team (35 FTEs), including operations in overseas share services.
- Ensure compliance with company policies, controls, and governance requirements.
- Oversee cash flow, working capital, and financial risk management.
- Partner with Corporate Finance, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, and External Audit teams.
- Champion process improvement, automation, and finance digitalization.
- Support implementation of finance, pricing, and reporting technologies.
- Drive productivity initiatives and continuous improvement across the region.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Busines preferred.
- Professional qualification (CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA) and/or MBA preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive finance leadership experience.
- Proven track record partnering with senior business leaders in a complex multinational environment.
- Experience within healthcare, logistics, pharmaceutical, or supply chain industries preferred.
- Strong leadership, commercial acumen, analytical capability, and influencing skills.
What Success Looks Like
- Achievement of Revenue, Operating Income, and Cash Flow targets.
- Forecast accuracy and planning effectiveness.
- Margin improvement and customer profitability enhancement.
- Successful delivery of strategic growth and transformation initiatives.
- Development and engagement of regional finance talent.
- Quality of business partnership with North America leadership.
Compensation & Benefits
- Full-time position.
- Medical, dental, and vision care.
- Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness.
- Support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
- Training programs and professional development resources.
- Mentorship programs, employee resource groups, and volunteer activities.
Location
North America
Equal Employment Opportunity
- The employer is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or membership in any other class protected by federal, state, or local law.
- Harassment is prohibited, and recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions, and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Reasonable Accommodations
- Reasonable accommodations are available to individuals with disabilities during the employment process, consistent with legal requirements. Requests are handled on a request-by-request basis.