Director, Finance and Strategy

Position Summary:

IEM is seeking a highly analytical, hands-on Director of Finance & Strategy to serve as a key partner to the VP of Finance & Strategy. This role will support critical financial, operational, and commercial decisions across a fast-growing manufacturing business.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning, Analysis & Modeling

• Build and maintain detailed financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, reforecasting, long-range planning, and ad hoc decision-making.
• Analyze historical and projected financial performance, identifying key drivers of revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, working capital, and EBITDA.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and key business decisions.
• Support monthly reporting, leadership reviews, and board-level materials with clear, accurate, and well-supported analysis.

Operational & Commercial Analytics

• Partner with operations and commercial leaders to evaluate performance, capacity, productivity, backlog, pricing, labor, material costs, and other key business drivers.
• Analyze large and complex data sets, often where source data is incomplete, inconsistent, or evolving, and build practical analytical frameworks to answer business questions.
• Help improve data integrity and establish repeatable reporting and analytical processes across the organization.
• Translate operating metrics into financial implications and identify actionable opportunities to improve performance.

Strategic & Cross-Functional Support

• Own end-to-end analyses from problem definition through executive-level recommendation, with limited direction.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready materials that clearly communicate the analysis, key takeaways, risks, and recommended actions.
• Build strong working relationships across finance, accounting, operations, supply chain, commercial, and senior leadership.
• Coordinate workstreams across functions, driving timely follow-up and accountability where needed.

M&A & Strategic Transactions (Selective Exposure)

• Support evaluation of potential M&A opportunities through financial modeling, data analysis, and diligence support as needed

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in corporate finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, consulting, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.
• Strong understanding of the three financial statements and how operational decisions flow through revenue, margin, EBITDA, cash flow, and working capital.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, scenario analysis, and the ability to build models and analyses from scratch.
• Ability to independently work through large, complex data sets and ambiguous business questions.
• Strong business judgment and intellectual curiosity; willing to dig into the details to understand what is driving performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex analysis into a clear message for senior leadership.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work with urgency, and maintain a high degree of accuracy.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrials, or other operationally complex businesses is preferred, but not required.