Finance director Jobs in Louisville, KY

Director of Finance

The Director of Finance provides strategic and operational financial leadership for Fives Intralogistics Corporation. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this role leads financial planning and analysis, forecasting, management reporting, partnering with the Director of Project Accounting for project financial oversight, process improvement, and cross-functional business partnership. The position supports sound decision-making by improving financial visibility, strengthening forecasting discipline, and translating business performance into clear, actionable insights for executive and functional leaders.

Character Qualifications

• Innovation We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.
• Integrity We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.
• Service We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.
• Ownership We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes in partnership with the CFO and senior leadership team.
• Provide timely, accurate, and insightful analysis of revenue, margin, backlog, cash flow, project performance, expense trends, and business unit profitability.
• Develop management reporting packages, KPI dashboards, and executive-level financial summaries that support operating reviews and strategic decisions.
• Partner with Sales, Operations, Service, Project Management, Supply Chain, Engineering, and other functional leaders to evaluate performance, risks, opportunities, capacity needs, and investment decisions.
• Support project financial governance in partnership with the Director of Project Accounting, including project margin reviews, cost-to-complete analysis, revenue recognition support, risk identification, and coordination with project accounting and project controls resources.
• Monitor working capital, cash flow drivers, customer invoicing trends, collections exposure, and supplier payment impacts; recommend actions to improve cash visibility and financial discipline.
• Strengthen financial processes, reporting cadences, and internal controls to improve accuracy, predictability, consistency, and scalability across the Finance organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop assigned finance team members, including financial analysis resources and other direct or indirect reports as assigned.
• Prepare financial presentations and business case analyses for leadership initiatives, organizational redesign efforts, capital investments, cost improvement opportunities, and growth projects.
• Support audits, compliance activities, corporate reporting requirements, and special projects as requested by the CFO or executive leadership.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting, improve data integrity, and expand the use of financial systems, ERP data, Excel, Power BI, and other decision-support tools.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced credential preferred.
• Seven or more years of progressive finance, accounting, FP&A, project finance, controllership, or related financial management experience preferred.
• Experience supporting a project-based, manufacturing, engineering, systems integration, or industrial equipment business preferred.
• Demonstrated strength in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, management reporting, project margin analysis, and business partnership.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, revenue recognition concepts, internal controls, audit practices, and financial compliance expectations.
• Strong ERP and financial systems aptitude; SAP or comparable ERP experience preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; PowerPoint and Power BI or similar reporting/dashboard experience preferred.
• Ability to interpret complex financial information, identify trends, solve problems, and communicate recommendations clearly to financial and non-financial audiences.
• Strong leadership, organizational, collaboration, confidentiality, and professional judgment skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively with leaders across functions and levels of the organization.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk and may occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Fives Intralogistics Corp. is a manufacturer of automated sorting equipment. Employees of the company work in a light industrial environment and must follow established safety policies. This position primarily works in an office environment and may occasionally enter manufacturing, warehouse, or customer/project environments where personal protective equipment and adherence to safety requirements may be required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel

Travel may be required periodically for business reviews, audits, project meetings, customer or supplier meetings, training, or collaboration with other Fives locations. Travel expectations should be determined based on business need.