Director Finance (Finance)

Driving Infinite Possibilities Within A Diversified, Global Organization

Global Products finance team supports Fire business within Building Automation. The Fire business and related products focus on protecting people, property, and assets with confidence. We are industry leaders developing new capabilities across our entire portfolio. This team member will be a hands-on leader and contributor to the Business in creating increased visibility into operational strategy and performance with the goal of driving speed, quality, and cost efficiency. You will play a part and lead others in supporting the development of the Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan and Estimate processes. This position will be the business partner to the Portfolio Leaders and will support the market assessment and product deployment across our strategic verticals and geographic markets. This position reports to the CFO of Products Building Automation and will be a key partner to the business presidents.

KEY RESPONSABILITIES:

• Lead the financial development of NPI financial models, validate assumptions and gain signoff from key stakeholders.
• Model to capture the details on the product offering and ensure we document and understand the competitive benchmarks vs our positioning to maximizing our launch pricing while also holding the development team to accountable to target cost assumptions.
• Underlying volume and cannibalization assumptions to be documented and aligned at a minimum to our strategic planning driver levels.
• Work with offering to assess and document our vertical and geographic share position while refining and developing our offering requirements to inform our development and strategic planning.
• Work with the portfolio leaders & pricing teams to analyze and challenge promotions along with customer buying behavior and develop recommendations to maximize pricing, mix and ultimately profit expansion.
• Challenge our launch calendar to ensure financial preparedness and launch accountability. Provide additional rigor and financial leadership in measuring and tracking the New Product (NPI) key metrics
• Partner in the product life cycle management by understanding both the product exits with a documented disposition strategy inclusive of IOS pricing mitigation as well as alignment to the launch volume assumptions and completion of all proactive demand assessments and signoffs to limit delays and cost of failure on launch.
• Support strategic 80/20 product and customer analytics
• Ad hoc support on M&A early due diligence and / or new business model development and assessment
• Establish meaningful reports and analytics that support the needs of the leadership team. Manage company-wide global data requests quickly and efficiently.
• Provide accurate and timely analytics, reports, and insightful observations to managers and executives to increase cost management efficiency and effectiveness.
• Foster a winning culture. Provide team members with opportunities to partner with business leaders. Promote cross-training and knowledge transfer opportunities to increase skill sets.
• Communicate effectively with management concerning financial objectives and key business metrics.

MUST HAVE

• 10+ years of experience working in accounting/finance positions, with financial analysis experience at a manager or above level for at least 6 years.
• Manager experience supervising a staff and / or working in a matrix organization
• Experience and flexibility in managing with international regions

WE VALUE

• Four-year accounting/finance degree required, MBA preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills across all levels of an organization
• Able to quickly understand and explain complex data/issues and distill complex and voluminous data into understandable information
• Ability to develop and lead new business models and support organizational shift
• Ability to partner with leadership around strategic objectives
• Ability to develop software based business management metrics to support decision making
• Highly proficient PC skills, especially in Excel, Power Point, and Word; Hyperion SmartView preferred
• Detail oriented with excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Strong initiative with a proven ability to follow-through on projects and bring them to a timely completion
• Comfortable working under tight deadlines
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to gain trust at the highest levels of the organization
• Ability to work collaboratively in group situations

Additional Information

• JOB ID: HRD260960
• Category: Finance
• Location: 715 Peachtree Street, N.E.,Atlanta,Georgia,30308,United States
• Exempt

Global (ALL)

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.