Position Summary

Broad financial responsibility and leadership for core finance processes. Serves as a key advisor to division staffs on administration of programs and systems and provides interface to customer, external agencies or corporate as required. Participates in determining and implementing longer-term strategic objectives with impact on profitable group growth and control initiatives. Provides leadership to leaders and professional staff. Assist in Sarbanes Oxley initiatives.

Responsibilities

Key finance areas include:

Accounting: Maintain group systems. Plan coordination and focal point. Communicate the results of the operations each monthto all levels of group, division and corporate management.

Finance: General and specialized accounting (e.g. cost or tax accounting); audit; financial analysis and budgeting; payroll andrelated areas. Partner with divisions in outsourcing review initiatives. 

Essential Functions

• Responsible for refining group and division finance programs and systems with varied and/or multiple functions.
• Develops new approaches to resolve finance systems problems by implementing new processes and/or efficiency improvements.
• Creates guidelines and policies for group and division use. Interprets and translates needs of internal or external customers and develops strategies to satisfy these requirements.
• Develops measures to evaluate results and success of programs with both objective and subjective impact.
• Maintains group reporting, communication and monitoring systems in order to effectively communicate the resultsof operations each month.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of major professional accomplishments, including increasing responsibility and overall leadership of projects and teams for five or more years. Demonstrated ability to perform the described role and responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
• Knowledge of the relevant business function that would typically be obtained through a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration Finance or a similar discipline. An MBA or a professional designation is preferred.
• Thorough understanding of business and financial systems and controls, contractual terms and regulatory requirements. Ability to control costs and effectively implement programs with impact to group-wide efforts. Highly effective and persuasive in developing and maintaining customer/internal client relationships.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or parkerhannifin.

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