Vice President, Finance

Summary:

The Vice President, Finance for the Business Segment Perimeter Security is the senior finance leader and a core member of the BSPS Leadership Team. The role serves as a strategic business partner to the Segment President and provides leadership across financial planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, cash flow and working capital, internal control, compliance, systems, acquisitions, and performance improvement.

This position is accountable for the integrity, timeliness, and usefulness of financial information across the segment and its operating businesses. The VP Finance translates strategy into financial plans, challenges assumptions, identifies risk and opportunity, and helps leadership make disciplined decisions that improve growth, profitability, cash generation, and long-term value creation.

Scope of the Role:

• Provides segment-level financial leadership across the BSPS businesses, including Ameristar, Jerith, B&B Roadway and Security Solutions, Iron Eagle, and Wallace North America.
• Leads and develops a distributed finance organization that includes business finance leaders, controllers, financial planning and analysis, and shared-service resources operating in a matrix environment.
• Partners closely with Segment, Business Area, Entrance Systems Division, and Group leadership, as well as Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, and external advisors.
• Supports a multi-entity, cross-border manufacturing and service environment with differing ERP platforms, operating models, and statutory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy and Business Partnership

• Act as the principal financial advisor to the Segment President and BSPS Leadership Team, providing clear, fact-based insight on business performance, strategic priorities, risks, and opportunities.
• Contribute to segment strategy, annual operating priorities, long-range plans, investment decisions, and resource allocation.
• Build financial scenarios and challenge commercial, operational, and investment assumptions to improve the quality of decisions.
• Translate financial results into concise executive-level messages for leadership, business reviews, board materials, forecasts, and planning discussions.
• Promote collaboration across BSPS businesses and with other segments and divisions to identify synergies, share resources, and improve ways of working.

Financial Planning, Forecasting and Performance Management

• Lead the segment’s annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and short-term forecast processes, ensuring timely submissions, aligned assumptions, and clear explanations of changes.
• Lead monthly business reviews and quarterly financial reviews, with disciplined analysis of sales, orders, organic growth, margins, EBIT, cash flow, working capital, headcount, capital spending, and other key performance indicators.
• Evaluate performance by business, product, market, customer, and cost category; identify root causes and coordinate corrective actions with accountable leaders.
• Oversee segment financial models, management reporting, scorecards, bridges, and dashboards that support timely, traceable decision-making.
• Establish measurable financial priorities and monitor execution against plans, forecasts, functional targets, and improvement commitments.

Accounting, Reporting and Financial Integrity

• Ensure complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting in accordance with ASSA ABLOY reporting requirements, applicable accounting principles, and local statutory requirements.
• Provide oversight of month-end and year-end close, consolidation, account review, significant estimates, reserves, intercompany matters, and management reporting across the segment.
• Maintain a strong review process for revenue, margins, inventory, warranty, receivables, fixed assets, accruals, provisions, and unusual or non-recurring transactions.
• Ensure consistent accounting treatment, mapping, and reporting across entities, particularly during system conversions, integrations, or organizational changes.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors and ensure timely resolution of audit findings and recurring control observations.

Cash Flow and Working Capital

• Drive disciplined cash management and working-capital performance across accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and other working-capital categories.
• Lead reviews of DSO, overdue receivables, credit risk, inventory aging and reserves, payment terms, capital expenditures, and cash conversion performance.
• Partner with commercial, operations, supply chain, and finance teams to establish practical actions that improve cash flow without compromising customer service or business continuity.
• Ensure appropriate financial governance over credit, collections, spending, capital investment, and asset disposals.

Internal Control, Compliance and Governance

• Lead the segment internal control and compliance agenda, promoting a strong control environment and consistent accountability across all entities.
• Own the segment implementation and annual maintenance of the Authorization Manual and Delegation of Authority matrix, including appropriate thresholds, approvals, communication, and entity-level adoption.
• Ensure adherence to Group, Division, segment, and local policies; support legal, tax, treasury, insurance, trade compliance, and other governance requirements as applicable.
• Identify financial and operational risks, escalate material matters promptly, and verify that corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Reinforce the four-eyes principle, appropriate segregation of duties, sound contract and spending controls, and complete audit trails.

Acquisitions, Integration and Transformation

• Lead or support financial evaluation and due diligence for acquisitions, including quality of earnings, working capital, valuation inputs, risk assessment, and integration planning.
• Provide finance leadership during post-acquisition integration, including reporting, controls, accounting policies, treasury, systems, close processes, and organizational alignment.
• Participate in ERP conversions and other business-system initiatives, ensuring financial requirements, controls, data integrity, testing, and readiness are addressed.
• Sponsor finance process improvement, standardization, automation, and reporting initiatives that increase efficiency, visibility, and control.
• Provide financial governance for major strategic and operational projects, including clear business cases, milestones, benefits, risks, and post-implementation review.

Leadership and Organization Development

• Lead, coach, and develop the BSPS finance team, setting clear expectations for ownership, quality, timeliness, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
• Build succession depth and organizational capability through talent assessment, development plans, cross-training, and thoughtful delegation.
• Create an effective matrix finance community across the operating businesses while respecting local accountability and business needs.
• Promote a collaborative, practical, and high-performance culture grounded in empowerment, innovation, integrity, and respectful challenge.
• Maintain strong working relationships at all organizational levels and communicate complex financial matters in a clear, constructive, and actionable manner.

Decision Support and Accountability:

• Provide independent financial judgment and respectfully challenge proposals when assumptions, returns, risk, controls, or strategic alignment are not sufficiently supported.
• Recommend approval, revision, escalation, or rejection of investments, contracts, spending commitments, forecasts, reserves, and other financially significant matters within established authority.
• Ensure leaders understand the financial consequences of decisions and that approved actions are reflected accurately in forecasts, plans, reporting, and performance commitments.
• Escalate material financial, compliance, liquidity, reporting, or control concerns to the Segment President and Division CFO as appropriate.

Success Measures:

• Accurate, timely, and decision-useful financial reporting and forecasting.
• Achievement of segment commitments for growth, profitability, cash flow, working capital, and cost management.
• Effective business reviews with clear ownership, root-cause analysis, and follow-through on actions.
• Sustained compliance with internal control, audit, reporting, and Delegation of Authority requirements.
• Successful financial integration of acquisitions and delivery of approved transformation benefits.
• A capable, engaged, and accountable finance organization with appropriate succession depth.
• Trusted partnership with segment, entity, division, and functional leadership.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree or professional certification such as CPA, CMA, or equivalent preferred.
• Extensive progressive experience in finance leadership, including responsibility for multi-entity or multi-location operations in a manufacturing, industrial, or similarly complex environment.
• Demonstrated leadership of planning, forecasting, financial reporting, internal control, working capital, and business performance management.
• Experience leading through a matrix organization and influencing senior leaders across functions and geographies.
• Experience with acquisitions, due diligence, post-acquisition integration, ERP implementation or conversion, and finance process transformation strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP or IFRS, management accounting, manufacturing finance, cost accounting, and financial controls; cross-border experience is preferred.
• Advanced analytical and financial-modeling capability, with strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, enterprise reporting tools, consolidation systems, and ERP environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues with clarity to executive and operational audiences.

Leadership Competencies:

Working Conditions:

• Office-based leadership role with regular interaction across BSPS locations and with Division and Group stakeholders.
• Regular travel within the United States and Canada, with periodic international travel as business needs require.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and support critical reporting periods and business events.

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, qualifications, or working conditions. Responsibilities may evolve with the needs of the business.

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