Job Description

DEHN Overview

DEHN is a leading, international family-owned electrical engineering company based in Neumarkt, Germany. With its comprehensive portfolio, DEHN addresses the megatrends of our time - from e-mobility and renewables to the protection of critical infrastructure. The company offers solutions and services for lightning and surge protection as well as safety equipment – fields in which, with more than 1,100 patents, DEHN is a leading innovator. The company’s products protect people and buildings, systems and telecommunications technology, process industry, as well as photovoltaic systems and wind turbines. With more than 2,500 employees worldwide, DEHN achieved revenue of around 470 million dollars in the fiscal year 2023/2024. Alongside more than 115 years of experience, this constant growth is based on the highest quality standards and a consistent orientation towards customers and markets worldwide.

Business Overview

DEHN, Inc. has an opening for a Finance Director-Americas. This position will have management and oversight of all finance-related responsibilities including FP&A, cost accounting and oversight of the general accounting functions for the DEHN Americas business. It is an important business partner to the P&L Leader for DEHN Americas to support profitable growth, strong cash flow, and continuous improvement. This person will work closely with operational, sales, and engineering functions as well as manufacturing sites and/or administrative offices located in the United States, LATAM, and Canada.

The position will report directly to the President & CEO-Americas and functionally to the CFO of DEHN SE (Global Headquarters). It will include leadership responsibility for Compliance and IT functions and will be based in Mooresville, NC.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on the delivery of planned financial results in line with management and key stakeholder requirements.
• Drive strategic alignment among peers across all functions, including operations, commercial, engineering and G&A functions.
• Ensure that working capital, cash, productivity, quality measures, and defined KPI’s are adequately reported and controlled to achieve plan levels in accordance with Business Unit requirements.
• Implement a process of performance improvement metrics in all businesses.
• Ensure full legal- and tax- compliance as well as DEHN Group policies for all legal entities of Business Unit Americas.
• Work on establishing, maintaining, and improving an internal controls environment.
• Work with both internal and external auditors.
• Maintain close contact with the P&L Leader and business units to assist with financial expertise including new business opportunities.
• Ensure accurate, timely reporting of financial information including budgets, forecasts, monthly results and flash reports to Executive Committee and main Board.
• Identify key issues and propose actions thereon to meet Business Unit objectives.
• Key contributor to the DEHN Americas planning process to deliver operational effectiveness, profitability, and shareholder value.
• Contribute to the development and deployment of risk management strategies to mitigate risk and safeguard the Company’s assets.
• Recruit, develop & leverage financial expertise to deliver continuous improvement in terms of finance process efficiency/effectiveness and the controls environment.
• Support Global HQ CFO with financial expertise and project leadership.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance (MBA or CPA preferred).
• Minimum ten years of progressively responsible, hands on, financial experience demonstrating leadership of significant process improvements within the finance function.
• Minimum 5 years financial expertise in manufacturing environment.
• International experience beyond US operations is desired.
• Record of being a strong business partner.
• Experience in controls and US GAAP requirements.
• Travel required, up to 30%.
• Able to travel domestically and internationally.
• Previous experience with development of business strategy (including business expansion and acquisitions).
• Demonstrated ability to manage and implement programs to improve cash flow including working capital management.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and participate as part of the plant management team and to serve as an innovative sounding board for other members of the team.
• Demonstrated strong analytical capability to understand the inter-relationships between sales, operating and cost data, and balance sheet to identify operational problems, and to analyze variances from planned results.
• Demonstrated experience and success in performing strategic and tactical requirements (“stratactical”) to build a finance function.
• Proven ability to lead and develop cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communicator with experience building relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• High ethical integrity.
• Demonstrated ability to lead transformations.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and to be resilient.
• Able to juggle multiple priorities.

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