Sr Director, Finance

Dover Corporation · Turnhout

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At Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), we are taking fueling and convenience retail to the next level. We are passionate about cultivating excellence in everything we do, but what really fuels us is our people. They’re the heart of our company. As an employee, our promise to you is that you’ll work on new and innovative products and solutions, be mentored by managers and teammates who are collaborative, caring, and act with integrity, and have the opportunity to grow in ways that are meaningful to you. Unique and interesting projects – both locally and globally – will challenge you and allow you to pursue different and rewarding career paths.

We are #EnergizedByGrowth.

DFS is part of a legacy of leadership that spans back generations, made up of some of the most trusted, leading-edge brands in the industry. As part of Dover Corporation and with our talented, innovative, outstanding people, we are doing great things and redefining what is possible in fueling and convenience retail. Providing advanced fuel-dispensing equipment, including clean energy solutions, systems and payment, automatic tank gauging and wet stock-management solutions, DFS comprises the product brands of Wayne Fueling Systems, OPW Fuel Management Systems, ClearView, Tokheim, ProGauge, Fairbanks, LIQAL, AvaLAN, and Bulloch Technologies. Headquartered in Austin, TX, DFS has a significant technology development and manufacturing presence worldwide, including facilities in Brazil, China, India, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Position Responsibilities:

The Sr. Director, EMEA+SAL Finance serves as the senior finance leader for the company’s largest geographic region, acting as the regional CFO and partner to the VP/GM of the EMEA+SAL region. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the role is responsible for driving financial performance for Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, strengthening operational control and command, and building a high-performing regional finance organization capable of supporting a complex industrial business.

The position will partner closely with regional leadership to translate strategy into operational execution while ensuring strong financial discipline, forecasting accuracy, and alignment with corporate financial objectives. The Sr. Director is accountable for accounting, controls, financial systems, operations finance, reporting, analysis, commercial finance, and regulatory and compliance within the region.

This role also plays a key part in the company’s ongoing finance transformation efforts, improving the maturity of financial processes, analytics, and business partnership across the region.

This position is viewed as a leader by the DFS Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and can work collaboratively with the CFO and VP/GM of EMEA+SAL on strategic matters, represent both Finance and the business in cross-functional teams. This position drives a culture of integrity, at their core is a people and process developer and driver of accountability. Direct reports include five finance leaders across the EMEA+SAL region, and the head of regional FP&A.

Why this role ?

• Genuine regional authority – The Sr. Finance Director owns the full P&L (Sales to EBIT) and drives accountability for a significant multi-country P&L
• Subsidiary of a US publicly traded, Fortune 500 enterprise.  Direct access to US based Operating Company leadership team.  Region leadership based in Benelux.
• A company at a meaningful inflection point in EMEA – this is not a steady-state maintenance role ---- a match for a creator and developer
• Real scope to shape and architect how regional finance runs: the team, operating cadence, and finance’s seat at the table

Integrity

• Be the independent voice of financial truth for EMEA+SAL – call it as it is, early and plainly.
• Set the tone for the region: Lead with candor.
• Strong partner to EMEA Regional Controller – proactively escalate to the Global Controller and CFO

FP&A and Business Partnership

• Own the regional AOP, quarterly forecast and strategic plan submissions – strengthen a bottoms up/site build up based on clear assumptions to drive accountability
• Serve as the primary finance partner to the EMEA & SAL VP/GM (Managing Director); challenge commercial commitments, pressure-test margin assumptions and hold the business to its plan
• Partner with site-level finance leaders to ensure a consistent and credible operating cadence across sites – weekly, monthly and quarterly rhythms that are connected to business processes to yield predictable outcomes
• Provide the CFO with an independent read of regional performance

Team Leadership

• Lead a regional finance team including EMEA FP&A, EMEA Controllership (dotted-line) and Site Finance leaders – establishing clarity of roles, accountability, and performance expectations for the team
• Raise the bar for EMEA+SAL site financial teams to command their four-walls and financial statements
• Develop finance talent in the region with an eye toward building a bench

Operational and Commercial Support

• Partner with operations leadership across sites to ensure financial discipline in cost management, capex investments and working capital management
• Support commercial leadership on pricing decisions, deal economics and margin/mix analysis – bringer of financial rigor without becoming an obstacle to commercial agility
• Lead or support regional projects including product rationalization, improved site-level financial analysis as the DFS Finance Transformation progresses

What we need:

Essentials:

• 15+ years of experience backed by leadership and integrity.  Proven track record of operating as an independent and transparent finance voice.
• Chartered qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or regional equivalent) & experience of supporting the rigor of a publicly traded enterprise, based in the US.
• Experience in a Finance Director in global manufacturing, automotive, industrial or capital goods business with full P&L ownership.  Environments where operations, cost accounting and commercial finance intersect. 
• Strength using financial information to influence business decision making.  Able to create or improve financial reporting and analysis to shape better decisions.
• Strong background in business-facing finance roles including operational finance and FP&A leadership.  Balanced experience across FP&A and Controllership
• An ability to create loyalty and trust. One who can energize people and teams and make cross-functional and cross-region cooperation happen.

Strongly Preferred:

• A career foundation in Big 4 public accounting
• Multi-site or multi-country finance leadership experience, with demonstrated ability to set a standard for site financial leaders from a distance
• Comfort navigating a matrixed organization where functional authority (to the CFO) and local influence (to the GM) must be managed simultaneously
• Demonstrates courage of conviction for their positions while being intellectually agile, transparent, and flexible.
• Prior experience to margin-improvements plans (80/20, CI, etc.)

Profile

• Operates from a position of independent judgement – gathers input widely, then forms and holds their own view
• Calm under pressure, especially when the stakeholders push back
• Sets a high bar and holds to it – for the themselves, their team and the business
• Collaborative, but in service of the right business outcome rather than of being liked – won’t trade independence for harmony

Comfortable anchored to the US reporting line and cadence; the CFO relationship is true north

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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