Vice President Finance
NXTThing RPO · Columbus metropolitan area, OH
FULL-TIME
Posted Sep 9, 2026
Job Description
Vice President, Finance
Hybrid - Columbus, OH
Our client is seeking a Vice President, Finance to serve as the organization’s senior finance executive and a member of the executive leadership team. As a strategic advisor to the President and leadership team, this executive will drive performance, guide investment decisions, and strengthen the financial capabilities, systems, and governance needed to support a complex, global business. The role will also serve as a key liaison to ownership stakeholders, financial institutions, external advisors, and strategic partners. This hybrid role offers flexibility while requiring meaningful in-person collaboration with the executive team.
Enterprise Financial Leadership
- Lead the global finance strategy and operating model, translating business priorities into measurable financial outcomes.
- Advise the President and leadership team on performance, capital allocation, risk, and strategic investments.
- Drive long-term value creation through disciplined financial management and strong business partnership.
Performance Management & Business Partnership
- Lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and enterprise performance management.
- Partner closely with plant, operations, supply chain, and commercial leaders, translating manufacturing performance, cost, inventory, productivity, and capacity drivers into clear financial insight and action.
- Ensure timely visibility to risks, opportunities, and performance drivers, reinforcing accountability and execution.
Treasury, Capital & Financial Stewardship
- Oversee treasury, liquidity, cash management, financing, and working capital performance.
- Lead capital planning and allocation in a high-capital-demand environment, balancing growth, returns, liquidity, and risk.
- Maintain strong financial governance, controls, tax oversight, and reporting discipline.
External Relationships & Governance
- Represent the organization with ownership stakeholders, banks, auditors, tax advisors, consultants, and other strategic partners.
- Communicate enterprise performance, investment priorities, and value-creation plans with clarity and credibility.
Transformation & Standalone Company Development
- Lead finance transformation, including ERP implementation, process modernization, and development of scalable standalone capabilities.
- Ensure finance systems, processes, and talent support growth and the long-term operating model.
Organization Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing global finance organization across core finance disciplines.
- Build capability and succession strength while fostering ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field; advanced degree or CPA, CMA, or equivalent qualification preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience in a complex, global manufacturing environment.
- Proven success leading finance operations for a manufacturing company; experience primarily in service, financial services, technology, retail, or other non-manufacturing sectors will not substitute.
- Strong command of manufacturing finance, including plant performance, standard costing, inventory and working capital, productivity, supply chain economics, and capital investment decisions.
- Experience operating in a business with high capital demand, including capital planning, prioritization, and investment governance.
- Broad leadership across FP&A, treasury, accounting, tax, controls, and business finance.
- Experience with finance transformation, ERP implementation, integration, separation, or development of standalone capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive decisions and lead through significant organizational change.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate will be:
- Strategic and commercially minded, combining financial rigor with practical business judgment.
- Collaborative in style, with the confidence to bring a strong perspective, challenge constructively, and influence decisions.
- Disciplined - balancing growth, capital stewardship, governance, and risk.
- Credible - people leader who builds strong relationships, develops talent, and creates accountability.
Hybrid - Columbus, OH
Our client is seeking a Vice President, Finance to serve as the organization’s senior finance executive and a member of the executive leadership team. As a strategic advisor to the President and leadership team, this executive will drive performance, guide investment decisions, and strengthen the financial capabilities, systems, and governance needed to support a complex, global business. The role will also serve as a key liaison to ownership stakeholders, financial institutions, external advisors, and strategic partners. This hybrid role offers flexibility while requiring meaningful in-person collaboration with the executive team.
Enterprise Financial Leadership
- Lead the global finance strategy and operating model, translating business priorities into measurable financial outcomes.
- Advise the President and leadership team on performance, capital allocation, risk, and strategic investments.
- Drive long-term value creation through disciplined financial management and strong business partnership.
Performance Management & Business Partnership
- Lead planning, forecasting, budgeting, and enterprise performance management.
- Partner closely with plant, operations, supply chain, and commercial leaders, translating manufacturing performance, cost, inventory, productivity, and capacity drivers into clear financial insight and action.
- Ensure timely visibility to risks, opportunities, and performance drivers, reinforcing accountability and execution.
Treasury, Capital & Financial Stewardship
- Oversee treasury, liquidity, cash management, financing, and working capital performance.
- Lead capital planning and allocation in a high-capital-demand environment, balancing growth, returns, liquidity, and risk.
- Maintain strong financial governance, controls, tax oversight, and reporting discipline.
External Relationships & Governance
- Represent the organization with ownership stakeholders, banks, auditors, tax advisors, consultants, and other strategic partners.
- Communicate enterprise performance, investment priorities, and value-creation plans with clarity and credibility.
Transformation & Standalone Company Development
- Lead finance transformation, including ERP implementation, process modernization, and development of scalable standalone capabilities.
- Ensure finance systems, processes, and talent support growth and the long-term operating model.
Organization Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing global finance organization across core finance disciplines.
- Build capability and succession strength while fostering ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field; advanced degree or CPA, CMA, or equivalent qualification preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience in a complex, global manufacturing environment.
- Proven success leading finance operations for a manufacturing company; experience primarily in service, financial services, technology, retail, or other non-manufacturing sectors will not substitute.
- Strong command of manufacturing finance, including plant performance, standard costing, inventory and working capital, productivity, supply chain economics, and capital investment decisions.
- Experience operating in a business with high capital demand, including capital planning, prioritization, and investment governance.
- Broad leadership across FP&A, treasury, accounting, tax, controls, and business finance.
- Experience with finance transformation, ERP implementation, integration, separation, or development of standalone capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive decisions and lead through significant organizational change.
Leadership Profile
The successful candidate will be:
- Strategic and commercially minded, combining financial rigor with practical business judgment.
- Collaborative in style, with the confidence to bring a strong perspective, challenge constructively, and influence decisions.
- Disciplined - balancing growth, capital stewardship, governance, and risk.
- Credible - people leader who builds strong relationships, develops talent, and creates accountability.
Additional Details
- City
- Columbus metropolitan area
- State
- Ohio
- Country
- US
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