General Overview

Functional Area: FIN - Finance
Career Stream: DEC - Decision Support
Role: Director 1
SAP Short Name: DR1
Job Title: Decision Support Director 1
Job Code: DR1-FIN-DEC
Job Level: Band 12
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

Manages the staff and the varied and complex financial operations. This job is the first Director level. Provides direct and indirect supervision to subordinate managers and employees performing highly specialized roles in a major function or division/department within medium to large sites. This includes long-term planning, objective setting, policy formation, interpretation and management while providing latitude and discretion to subordinates. Accountable for projects or programs on a multi-national or global basis. Work requires investigating and resolving a wide variety of highly unusual conditions that carry long-term implications. Requires developing new strategies, policies, practices, methods, programs or techniques and utilizing them to analyze and interpret difficult problems or situations and/or establishing new strategic direction that is site or multi-site specific. Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Has overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods and employees in a functional area. Has overall responsibility for business process for the organization. Makes a final decision on administrative and operational matters in area of responsibility to ensure achievement of objectives. Sound decisions are essential for the overall success of functional, division, or company operations. Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers. Assigns objectives, reviews performance and approves employee compensation, coaches for improved performance. Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers. Interactions normally involve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers. May represent the organization in public speaking venues and/or community events.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for management of financial staff.
• Staffs the department, assigns work, reviews performance and addresses performance issues.
• Promotes and maintains a productive work environment.
• Provides daily leadership, coaching and development to team members.
• Responsible to set team goals and to communicate and monitor these goals to ensure the targets are achieved.
• Develops guidelines, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
• Places a strong focus on the attainment of Celestica financial/performance objectives, and drives both the finance staff and operational management towards a consistent focus on these goals.
• Manages the activities of the decision support staff to ensure accurate and timely development and consolidation of financial MORs, forecasts, metrics, plans, and strategies.
• Ensures meaningful and value-add analysis is performed in conjunction with this activity, in order to support both financial and operational management in their decision making.
• Ensures that team support is provided to senior financial staff, to assist in attainment of total company targets, achievement of corporation wide schedules and reporting requirements – as well as providing insight and analysis on issues, risks, and opportunities.
• Provides financial leadership by reviewing, analyzing and interpreting financial and budgetary information.
• Participates in management decision-making drawing on information, analysis and recommendations from others.
• Provides analysis of investment decisions, product pricing, profitability, and cash flow.
• Develops external business relationships as required with counterparts inside the customer and / or supplier organizations and investment community.
• Implements and supports financial processes and system architecture.
• Develops new procedures and implements new processes to continually improve financial analysis, service quality, drive cost reduction and support strategic iniatives.
• Manages special projects within finance or as a member of a cross functional or customer team as required.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Expert knowledge of the marketplace conditions for finance
• Expert knowledge of Celestica’s finance organization including strategic policies and objectives.
• Excellent understanding of global business environment and Customers business, organization, products and processes.
• Strong knowledge of engineering and SCM concepts
• Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Ability to interface with many international sites to establish strong working relationships and cooperation.
• Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of managers and employees.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc)
• Occasional overnight travel is required

Typical Experience

• Eleven to fourteen years of applicable experience.
• A combination of site and corporate experience is an asset.
• Systems/data management experience is an asset.
• Breadth of knowledge is an asset

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Accounting designation recommended.
• Education experience may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.