Job Description:
Founded in 1904, ESAB Corporation is a premier narrowly diversified global leader in connected fabrication technology and gas control solutions. Our rich history of innovative products, workflow solutions, and business system, ESAB Business Excellence, enables our purpose of Shaping the World We Imagine™. We’re looking to hire a talented Sr Director Finance, Filler Metals based in Denton, TX or Bethesda, MD.
Reporting to the VP Finance, North America the Sr Director Finance, Filler Metals is responsible for being the senior finance leader for ESAB's Filler Metals business, a manufacturing segment generating approximately $400M in annual revenue. This is a full P&L role combining manufacturing finance, commercial finance, and strategic business partnership with plant and commercial leadership. The role owns financial close, FP&A, and budgeting for the business, and serves as a lead finance partner on ERP implementation and broader transformation initiatives. This is a highly visible role with direct influence on the performance of a major ESAB business unit.
Primary Duties
Full P&L and Business Partnership
- Own the full P&L for the Filler Metals business (~$400M in revenue), from revenue and margin through conversion cost and SG&A.
- Serve as strategic finance business partner to plant and commercial leadership, influencing decisions on pricing, mix, capacity, and investment.
- Translate operational and commercial performance into clear financial narratives and recommendations for business and executive leadership.
Manufacturing Finance
- Lead standard costing, conversion cost, and manufacturing variance analysis across the business's manufacturing operations.
- Partner with operations on capacity planning, cost-out initiatives, and productivity tracking.
- Support inventory management, reserve policy, and capital project evaluation.
Commercial Finance
- Partner with commercial leadership on pricing strategy, deal economics, and customer/channel profitability.
- Support funnel and growth reviews, ensuring financial rigor in forecasting commercial performance.
Close, FP&A, and Budgeting
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company policy and US GAAP.
- Lead annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning for the business.
- Drive EBITDA management and margin improvement initiatives, including product/SKU rationalization efforts.
- Deliver consistent, action-oriented KPI reporting and governance routines to leadership.
Transformation and ERP
- Serve as a lead finance stakeholder on ERP implementation, ensuring the system supports costing, close, and reporting requirements for the business.
- Support data migration, process design, and finance-team readiness/training as part of the ERP rollout.
- Identify and drive process standardization opportunities as part of the broader finance transformation agenda.
Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a finance team supporting the Filler Metals business, including site controllers and FP&A analysts.
- Establish consistent governance, KPI reporting, and review cadences.
- Act as a change agent, driving alignment to common financial processes and reporting standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience in a manufacturing/industrial environment, including plant or site-level finance ownership.
- Demonstrated experience owning a full P&L and serving as a strategic business partner to operations and commercial leadership.
- Strong background in standard costing, manufacturing variance analysis, and conversion cost management.
- Experience with FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close processes.
- Experience supporting or leading ERP implementations (SAP preferred).
- Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence plant, commercial, and senior leadership stakeholders.
Working Conditions
- Remains in a stationary position 50% of the time and involves additional physical demands such as ascending/descending stairs, walking stooping and standing.
- Must wear Personal Protective Equipment ‘PPE’ when working/visiting manufacturing and plant locations.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery including but not limited to printer, tablets, cell phones.
- Moves transports, puts, or removes equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.; pushes, pulls products weighing up to 200 lbs. using provided safety tools.
- May be exposed to varying weather during travel.
- Domestic travel required approximately 25%.
