Responsibilities
- Strategy & Planning: Collaborating with division and SBU heads to develop and manage budgets, forecasts, and financial plans aligned with strategy for the Core Autonomy Division.
- Partnering with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights and guidance on business strategies.
- Conducting risk assessment and management activities, identifying potential financial risks and developing mitigation strategies.
- Linking R&D to offer launch and P&L impact.
- Building a cash conversion and reoccurring revenue culture across the Division.
- Project & R&D Accounting: Governing and operating end-to-end project accounting across the Core Autonomy Division globally, ensuring revenue recognition, cost allocation, and reporting comply with relevant standards.
- Overseeing R&D accounting including capitalisation policies, grant management, and compliance with applicable standards.
- Ensuring project portfolios are supported with rigorous financial oversight, enabling successful execution of initiatives.
- Partnering with engineering and PMO to maintain financial integrity across the project life-cycle.
- Maintaining rigor in engineering and innovation, ensuring lifetime use justifies the investment.
- Logistics & Operations Finance: Governing logistics and operations finance for the Core Autonomy Division, ensuring cost efficiency and transparency.
- Gross margin accountability, in concert with supply chain, ensuring pricing models reflect market opportunity whilst covering cost.
- Enabling supply chain optimisation through excellence in sales forecasting.
- Building a culture of opex leverage, taking advantage of scale, systems, tools and playbooks to enhance profit through reuse of resources.
- FP&A: In concert with finance operations, developing and maintaining financial models to support decision-making and strategic initiatives.
- Conducting ad-hoc analysis to support key business initiatives and identify areas for improvement.
- Introducing Hoshin style goal setting across the scope appointed.
- Performing variance analysis and providing explanations for financial performance against budget and forecast.
- Actively driving cash conversion performance.
- Assisting in the preparation of management reports and presentations for senior leadership.
- Managing sales and non-sales bonus processes, including development of bonus structures, calculation methodologies, and performance tracking.
- Governance: Ensuring compliance with financial regulations and internal policies and monitoring changes in regulatory requirements.
- Championing internal controls as per Key Control area.
- In concert with legal – ensuring compliance to sales order contract risk tolerances, anti-competition constraints, fraud and bribery controls and gift and hospitality policies.
- In concert with Export Control – upholding necessary controls and boundaries as required for controlled goods.
- In concert with Credit Control – upholding the credit risk tolerances, activity work to improve aged receivables.
- Championing cyber and physical security, data privacy, data governance, compliance.
- Acting as custodian of the Autonomous Solutions Governance, Accountability and Autonomy Matrix for the Core Autonomy Division, ensuring divisional adherence to all applicable policies, standards, and regulatory requirements and that sub-delegations are maintained, filed, and aligned with Business Area functional dotted lines.
- Stakeholder Experience: Acting as a trusted advisor to the Core Autonomy Division President and SBU Senior Vice Presidents (Roadtrains; Sensors & Perception Technology).
- Prioritising stakeholder needs and enhance their experience.
- Building strong relationships with internal and external partners globally.
- Ensuring alignment between corporate services and stakeholder expectations.
- Supporting Others & GBS Shared Services: Working with the Global Finance Centres (GBS Accounting & Operations) to enable end-to-end harmonisation of business processes in line with the divisional strategy.
- Providing recommendations for process improvements and efficiencies to enhance financial performance.
- Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) as required.
- M&A closing and post close follow up aligned with PMI practices.
- Partnering with corporate services (quality, HR, IT, Legal & Compliance, Real Estate) to ensure customer and employee satisfaction.
- In concert with strategy, supporting the M&A pipeline from LOI through DD to PMI rigorously applying both commercial and financial logic.
- Transformational projects across Corporate Services as needed.
- Collaborating with other Divisional VP Finance leads to share best practices, aligning on cross-divisional initiatives, and maintaining consistency in financial governance across Autonomous Solutions.
- Building Skills, Talent, and Bench Strength (Corporate Services) Skill Development: Building programs to encourage continuous learning and skill enhancement.
- Training programs, certifications, and mentorship.
- Talent Acquisition: Building corporate services processes that attract top talent who share our vision.
- Recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise.
- Succession Planning: Identify high-potential employees and groom them for leadership roles.
- Build a robust bench strength for all corporate services functions.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- A flexible approach to working hours across multiple time zones is essential.
- Championing “The Hexagon Way” by exemplifying Speed, Accountability, and Transparency in all aspects of financial leadership.
