Regional Finance Manager (RFM) – Americas

Job Description

The RFM is the most senior finance person with responsibility for a region, in this case the Americas, working as the business partner to the Regional Director and the Regional Operations Director.

The RFM will opportunity to manage, train, develop and motivate the finance team in the region by taking responsibility for performance reviews of the team, identification of high potential candidates and development of local training plans where appropriate.

Reporting to the Divisional Finance Director who primarily leads one of the end market sectors, in this case Oil & Gas, the Regional Finance Manager's focus is primarily regional to the Americas, but has a dotted line into the other two DFDs who liaise with the RFM where there are questions about their sector (CPI or W&P) in this region.

Qualifications

Experience Requirements

• At least 8 years post qualification experience, the latter part in a senior financial role.
• Ability to manage staff at junior and senior levels and work within a global matrix structure.
• Commercial finance experience and exposure to customers, suppliers and other aspects of a business would be an advantage.
• Candidate will have experience travelling to, understanding and providing accounting oversight of regional and multiple international sites.
• Experience of credit risk, viability of vendors, quality of outside advisers would be useful but not essential, as would experience in implementing new finance and related systems.

The Successful Candidate

• Significant risk management sensitivity and able to improve business practices to higher performance levels. A rigorous approach to identifying and helping to correct under-performance, backed by sound common sense and a mastery of ‘the numbers’ and their significance.
• Facilitates organisational effectiveness, marshalling internal resource and advancing collaborative relationships.
• Empowers teams to perform, setting high but achievable targets.

Additional Information

Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow of liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.

Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.

For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.

Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.

Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.