Senior Manager Commercial Finance
Vertiv Corporation

Vertiv, a global leader in critical infrastructure solutions, seeks a Senior Manager, Commercial Finance at its headquarters in Westerville, OH to join our Americas Finance team. Your role will include strategic planning, executive reporting, and margin optimization in financial leadership and support of Sales Operations, Procurement, and Line of Business (LOB) Engineering. You will be in frequent contact with Sales and LOB teams to assess quoting inputs, savings commitments, and ensuring the follow-through in execution. Additionally, it is anticipated this role will grow into a more senior role to lead more robust function over commercial pricing and terms with customers to mitigate finance risks across credit/treasury, inventory, liquidated damages, terminations, etc. This role requires a self-starter with proven leadership and experience in manufacturing finance, strategic finance analysis, process creation, and continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement and lead a reporting cadence for sales and margin risk assessment leveraging inputs from backlog, quotes, and opportunities with comparisons to regional and LOB sales and margin targets.
• Collaborate with Procurement and external service providers to assess economic data and inflation outlook to ensure pricing and strategic analyses remain up to date for optimal decision making.
• Create and standardize a selling bid package analysis template and product cost scenario analysis tool.
• Partner with Sales Operations and LOB to ensure we utilize the most accurate and recent bill of material costs, inflation, margin targets, competitive intel, and other relevant assumptions for selling price decisions.
• Evaluate and determine solutions to prevent inflationary exposures through customer and supplier pricing terms as well as commodity and currency hedging programs.
• Establish a process to track cost savings commitments made during the quoting process and translate those commitments on awarded quotes to the functional project management tools for accountability and execution.
• Support LOB Engineering teams by coordinating and tracking value added engineering project savings vs. LOB targets and reporting of risks & opportunities.
• Identify commercial financial risks from quote to cash to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and optimized to prevent margin erosion and unfavorable liquidity impacts.
• Work with Legal, Procurement, and Sales Operations to design, implement, and oversee a consistent commercial contract gate process that is responsible for reviewing, optimizing, and recording contract terms and conditions.
• Provide ad hoc analytical support as a business partner to Sales and LOB leadership.
• Miscellaneous responsibilities and special projects as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or engineering
• 7-8+ years of experience in a commercial or manufacturing finance related role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven leadership skills in business partnership and process implementation.
• Experience in standard costing and manufacturing accounting principles.
• Excellent communication, organization, and analytical skills.
• Ability to pull together and summarize large amounts of data into concise explanations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• SQL query development experience, a plus.
• Manufacturing or large global firm experience, a plus.
• ERP Systems experience, preferably Oracle.

PHYSICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

• None

TIME TRAVEL REQUIRED

• None

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• High-Performance Culture
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It
• Act With Urgency
• Foster a Customer-First Mindset
• Think Big and Execute
• Lead by Example
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Learn and Seek Out Development

At Vertiv, we're on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to life-changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected. With $6.9 billion in revenue, a strong customer base and global reach spanning nearly 70 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertivco.com. If you are interested in applying or learning more about this role, please visit the company's career page located on Vertiv.com/Careers

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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