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Direct Reporting: President, Power Management Division
Functional reporting: CFO, AMC Segment
Function: Finance / Accounting
Location: Greater Vancouver Area (Lower Mainland, BC, Canada)
Role Type: Hybrid
Position Summary:
Reporting directly to the Division President and functionally to the Segment CFO, the Senior Director of Finance serves as the senior finance executive for the division and a key member of the Power Management Leadership Team.
This role provides strategic financial leadership, business partnership, and governance across a multi-business-unit organization throughout North America, supporting profitable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation. The Senior Director of Finance leads the division's finance organization, including Business Unit Finance Leaders, controllers, FP&A resources, and finance support teams. Acting as the primary liaison between the division, segment, and corporate finance organizations, this role is responsible for financial planning and analysis, forecasting, reporting, compliance, controls, talent development, and finance transformation initiatives. The role partners closely with business unit leaders and site leadership teams to improve performance, drive accountability, standardize processes, and support strategic initiatives including acquisitions, integrations, portfolio optimization, and continuous improvement through the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS).
Major Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior finance business partner to the Division President and Division Leadership Team, providing strategic insights and recommendations to support business growth and performance.
- Lead the division finance organization, providing leadership, coaching, and development to Business Unit Finance Leaders, controllers, FP&A teams, and other finance resources across North America.
- Partner with Business Unit leaders to develop and execute growth strategies, productivity initiatives, capital investment plans, and operational improvement programs.
- Establish and drive the division's financial planning processes, including annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, strategic planning, and long-range financial plans.
- Oversee preparation and communication of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results to division, segment, and corporate leadership.
- Drive accountability for revenue growth, profitability, working capital, cash flow, return on invested capital, and overall financial performance across the division.
- Partner with Business Unit leaders and site leadership teams to identify risks, opportunities, and actions to improve operating performance.
- Lead the division-wide finance talent strategy, including organizational design, succession planning, talent reviews, development planning, and leadership coaching.
- Provide functional leadership and governance to Business Unit Finance Leaders and site finance teams to ensure consistent financial processes, controls, reporting, and business support.
- Oversee all FP&A activities, including performance reporting, business analytics, financial modeling, KPI development, and executive reporting.
- Ensure compliance with Regal Rexnord accounting policies, internal controls, SOX requirements, and applicable accounting standards.
- Lead internal and external audit activities and drive timely remediation of audit findings and control improvements.
- Partner with Corporate Finance and Shared Services organizations to ensure efficient execution of accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, treasury, and financial reporting processes.
- Drive standardization and continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, reporting, and governance across all business units.
- Provide financial leadership for mergers, acquisitions, integrations, restructuring activities, footprint optimization, and strategic growth initiatives.
- Support commercial teams on pricing strategy, customer profitability, contract evaluation, and margin expansion initiatives.
- Champion data-driven decision making by leveraging financial analysis, business intelligence, and performance metrics.
- Lead finance transformation initiatives and adoption of best practices across the division.
- Promote continuous improvement through the Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS) and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and operational excellence.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineered products, electrical infrastructure, capital equipment, or multi-site operations.
- Demonstrated success leading finance organizations across multiple business units, sites, or regions.
- Experience serving as a strategic business partner to senior operational leaders, business unit leaders, or general managers.
- Experience in a project-based business (POC Revenue Recognition)
- Strong expertise in financial planning and analysis, forecasting, budgeting, business performance management, and financial strategy.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing finance teams and building organizational capability.
- Proven ability to influence executive decision-making and drive cross-functional alignment.
- Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA, CMA, CGA, or equivalent professional accounting designation.
- MBA or advanced business degree.
- Experience within power systems, switchgear, electrical infrastructure, industrial equipment, or engineered-to-order manufacturing environments.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing finance, operational finance, working capital management, inventory, cost accounting, and capital investment analysis.
- Experience leading finance within a multi-business-unit industrial organization.
- Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, and business transformation initiatives.
- Experience working in a publicly traded organization with SOX compliance requirements.
- Experience partnering with shared services and global finance organizations.
About Regal Rexnord
Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.
The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.
Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.
Notification to Agencies: Please note that Regal Rexnord Corporation and its affiliates and subsidiaries ("Regal Rexnord") do not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement or similar contract and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, Regal Rexnord will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.
