Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Cognex is the world’s leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price. Typical applications for machine vision include detecting defects, monitoring production lines, guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting and identifying parts.

Cognex serves an international customer base from offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and through a global network of integration and distribution partners. The company is headquartered close to Boston in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Role :

As a key person in the finance leadership team, reporting to the CFO, the mission of this role is to support the organization as a collaborative business partner and act as a critical thought partner to the CFO on both strategic and tactical financial decision-making. If you are an energetic finance leader who is ready to jump into a fast-paced technology company, this is the role you are looking for.

Key responsibilities :

• Develop a high-performing FP&A team that meets increasing needs and requirements across the business that helps drive the overall organization forward.
• Provide financial transparency and recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and provide the executive leadership team with advice on business decisions.
• Lead annual budgeting and long-range strategic planning process and models, oversee and be the owner of corporate financial forecasting.
• Champion cost optimization for products and indirect expenses and establish a highly efficient R&D controlling.
• Support investment decisions such as M&A by building financial business cases and supporting financial due diligence.
• Collaborate with the Corporate Controller, Tax, Investor Relations and the Treasury function on all accounting, tax, and treasury aspects and with the Sales FP&A team on all commercial finance topics.

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