Operations & Strategic Sourcing Finance Leader / Responsable Finance – Opérations & Achats Stratégiques (H/F)

Job Description Summary

The Global Operations & Strategic Sourcing Finance Leader will serve as the lead finance partner to the global Operations and Strategic Sourcing leaders, reporting directly to the Global Power Transmission CFO. This role will drive manufacturing productivity, sourcing savings, investment discipline and working capital improvement across the global operating footprint.

Working closely with Product Line CFOs and site finance teams, this leader will establish consistent financial standards, strengthen visibility of operational performance and translate improvement priorities into measurable margin and cash benefits. The role will provide financial leadership for capacity expansion, footprint optimization, supplier strategies and logistics, ensuring decisions reflect cost competitiveness, operational resilience and returns on capital.

The role will lead dedicated Operations and Sourcing Finance resources and provide functional guidance to site finance leaders, who report directly to their respective Product Line CFOs.

Le/La Responsable Finance Global(e) des Opérations et des Achats Stratégiques sera le/la principal(e) partenaire financier(ère) des responsables mondiaux des Opérations et des Achats Stratégiques et reportera directement au CFO Global de Power Transmission. Ce rôle contribuera à l’amélioration de la productivité industrielle, aux économies liées aux achats, à la discipline en matière d’investissement et à l’optimisation du besoin en fonds de roulement à travers l’ensemble des opérations mondiales.

En étroite collaboration avec les CFO des lignes de produits et les équipes Finance des sites, le/la titulaire du poste établira des standards financiers cohérents, renforcera la visibilité sur la performance opérationnelle et traduira les priorités d’amélioration en bénéfices mesurables en matière de marge et de trésorerie. Le poste assurera le leadership financier relatif à l’expansion des capacités, à l’optimisation de l’empreinte industrielle, aux stratégies fournisseurs et à la logistique, afin de garantir que les décisions prennent en compte la compétitivité des coûts, la résilience opérationnelle et le retour sur investissement.

Le/La titulaire du poste dirigera les ressources Finance dédiées aux Opérations et aux Achats et apportera un leadership fonctionnel aux responsables Finance des sites, qui reportent directement aux CFO de leurs lignes de produits respectives.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• •Partner with global Operations and Strategic Sourcing leadership to define financial priorities, productivity targets and improvement plans across manufacturing, procurement and logistics.
• •Lead consolidated operational and sourcing financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, working with Product Line CFOs to ensure consistent assumptions and clear ownership of commitments.
• •Establish common manufacturing finance standards, including product costing, labor and overhead absorption, variance analysis and operational performance reporting.
• •Provide functional guidance to site finance leaders, strengthening analytical capabilities, operating discipline and consistency across the manufacturing network.
• •Partner with Operations on sales and operations planning, connecting demand, capacity, production hours, labor utilization, throughput and delivery performance to financial outcomes.
• •Drive visibility and accountability for manufacturing productivity, distinguishing the impact of volume, mix, inflation, labor efficiency, scrap, rework and overhead performance.
• •Serve as the finance partner to Strategic Sourcing, supporting supplier negotiations, category strategies, cost reduction initiatives and supplier payment term improvements.
• •Establish consistent sourcing savings methodologies, validating baselines, implementation costs and realized benefits, and ensuring accurate translation into product costs, margins and cash flow.
• •Develop cost benchmarking and should cost analysis with Sourcing and Engineering to identify opportunities for material productivity, supplier competitiveness and design improvements.
• •Assess commodity, inflation, tariff and supplier exposures, supporting mitigation through sourcing strategies, contractual mechanisms and coordination with Commercial Finance and Treasury.
• •Lead financial evaluation of capacity expansion, automation and major capital expenditure programs, challenging business cases, monitoring execution and tracking delivery of expected returns.
• •Evaluate footprint optimization, localization, make versus buy decisions and supplier transfers, incorporating total cost, investment requirements, execution risks and operational resilience.
• •Partner with Operations and Sourcing to improve inventory turns and reduce excess, obsolete and slow moving inventory, balancing cash objectives with production and customer requirements.
• •Support inventory control and valuation standards with Controllership and Product Line Finance, ensuring consistent treatment of reserves, scrap and manufacturing variances.
• •Drive financial analysis of freight, warehousing and distribution costs, identifying opportunities to improve logistics efficiency and reduce avoidable expenditure.
• •Support integration and synergy delivery across the combined Power Transmission operations, validating benefits and aligning operational finance processes and reporting.
• •Simplify and automate operational and sourcing analytics, improving data quality, transparency and the speed of decision making.
• •Lead and develop the Operations and Sourcing Finance team, building strong partnerships with Product Line CFOs, site finance leaders and functional teams.

Required Qualifications:

• •Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline, with substantial progressive finance experience and demonstrated leadership in manufacturing, operations or sourcing finance.
• •Experience supporting a complex global manufacturing network, with strong understanding of factory economics, product costing, labor utilization and overhead absorption.
• •Demonstrated expertise in operational performance analysis, including manufacturing variances, productivity, inventory, cost of poor quality and working capital.
• •Strong sourcing finance knowledge, including procurement economics, supplier negotiations, commodity exposure, savings validation and total cost analysis.
• •Experience evaluating capital investments, capacity expansion, automation, footprint changes and make versus buy decisions.
• •A track record of partnering with operating leaders to deliver measurable improvements in cost competitiveness, margins and cash generation.
• •Ability to establish consistent financial methodologies and performance measures across multiple sites and product lines.
• •Experience leading direct teams and providing functional leadership in a matrix organization, with the ability to influence without direct reporting authority.
• •Experience driving standardization, automation and process improvement across finance and operational teams.

Desired Characteristics:

• •Strong analytical judgment and communication skills, translating operational data into clear financial insights and practical actions.
• •Strong financial control awareness, with a commitment to reliable reporting, transparent benefit measurement and disciplined investment decisions.
• •A collaborative leadership style, with a track record of developing talent and maintaining high standards of integrity and accountability.
• •A professional accounting qualification or advanced degree, experience in electrical equipment manufacturing, and exposure to Lean or acquisition integration would be advantageous.

For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $202,400 and $303,600 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.

If contracted