Director, Finance IMO

AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing seeks a Director, Finance IMO to lead the Finance Integration Management Office from our World Headquarters in Detroit, MI. You will drive governance, master planning, and value capture across enterprise initiatives including M&A integrations and ERP harmonization.

You will partner with IT, HR, Operations, Legal, and Commercial teams to deliver measurable financial outcomes, manage risks, and report progress to senior leadership, including the CEO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance leadership, transformation, and/or post-merger integration roles.
• Demonstrated experience establishing integration governance frameworks, building execution roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams through complex change.
• Strong financial acumen: translate operational execution into measurable financial outcomes (cost, cash, productivity, synergy capture).
• Excellent executive communication, structured problem solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Stands up and runs Finance integration governance to ensure timely decisions and consistent execution across the integration portfolio.
• Owns the integrated Finance master plan: milestones, interdependencies, critical path, readiness gates, and status reporting.
• Drives meeting rigor and audit quality (charters, decision logs, cutover plans, status dashboards, executive readouts).
• Coordinates with business leadership to build and maintain a value-capture tracker: synergy initiatives, owners, timing, financial validation methodology, and realization reporting.
• Tracks and reports one-time vs. run-rate synergy impacts, one-time integration costs, and dyssynergies; ensures visibility to leadership on ROI, progress, and risks to the deal thesis/value plan.
• Establishes performance management routines and metrics (close stability, reporting accuracy, cash/working capital visibility, one-time-cost burn, benefit realization).
• Oversees integration-related financial modeling and reporting requirements to inform decisions, track progress, and communicate outcomes to senior leadership.
• Prepares concise executive communications and presents updates to leadership forums including CEO.
• Provides guidance and support to Acquisition and Divestiture activities; collaborate with M&A team on diligence, analysis, modelling, and valuation.
• Drives disciplined data/document management for Finance integration records, ensuring secure access and standardized templates and baselines.

Skills

Finance leadership

Transformation

Post-merger integration

Governance frameworks

Cross-functional leadership

Financial acumen

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/related field

MBA

PMP/CPA/CMA

Tools

ERP systems

Data governance tools

Job description

Job Posting Title

Director, Finance IMO

Job Description Summary

Dauch is looking for a Director, Finance IMO to join our team at our World Headquarters in Detroit, MI.

This individual will lead the Finance Integration Management Office for enterprise initiatives such as M&A integrations, major reorganizations, and Finance transformation efforts (e.g., ERP/process harmonization). The role establishes and runs the integration operating rhythm, governance, and reporting needed to deliver a single, coordinated plan across finance workstreams, while partnering closely with cross-functional leaders in IT, HR, Operations, Legal, and Commercial teams. This person is accountable for transparent management of plans, milestones, dependencies, risks/issues and for connecting integration actions to measurable financial outcomes through synergy/benefit tracking, integration cost tracking, and performance metrics.

Job Description

Integration Governance & Operating Cadence (IMO)

• Stands up and runs Finance integration governance (steering routines, workstream check-ins, decision/issue escalation paths) to ensure timely decisions and consistent execution across the integration portfolio.
• Owns the integrated Finance master plan: milestones, interdependencies, critical path, readiness gates, and status reporting.
• Drives meeting rigor and audit quality (charters, decision logs, cutover plans, status dashboards, executive readouts).

Value Creation, Synergy & Integration Financial Tracking

• Coordinates with business leadership to build and maintain a value-capture tracker: synergy initiatives, owners, timing, financial validation methodology, and realization reporting.
• Tracks and reports one-time vs. run-rate synergy impacts, one-time integration costs, and dyssynergies.Ensures visibility to leadership on ROI, progress, and risks to the deal thesis/value plan.
• Establishes performance management routines and metrics (e.g., close stability, reporting accuracy, cash/working capital visibility, one-time-cost burn, benefit realization).

Financial Reporting, Modeling & Executive Communications

• Oversees integration-related financial modeling and reporting requirements to inform decisions, track progress, and communicate outcomes to senior leadership.
• Prepares concise executive communications (weekly status, key decisions needed, risks/issues, and mitigation plans) and presents updates to leadership forums including CEO.

M&A Activity and Support

• Provides guidance and support to Acquisition and Divestiture activities as appropriate for ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with M&A team on diligence, analysis, modelling, and valuation.

Systems / Data Integration Partnership (Finance + IT)

• Drives disciplined data/document management for Finance integration records, ensuring secure access and standardized templates and baselines.

Change Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Leads stakeholder alignment across Finance and cross-functional partners; anticipates friction points and drives rapid resolution with clear ownership and decision pathways.
• Supports change management initiatives (communications, training coordination, adoption tracking) to ensure business teams transition to new processes/tools with minimal disruption.
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance leadership, transformation, and/or post-merger integration roles.
• Demonstrated experience establishing integration governance frameworks, building execution roadmaps, and leading cross-functional teams through complex change.
• Strong financial acumen: ability to translate operational execution into measurable financial outcomes (cost, cash, productivity, synergy capture).
• Excellent executive communication, structured problem solving, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automotive or other manufacturing experience including plant-finance experience.
• MBA or Master’s degree in Finance/Business.
• Certifications such as PMP/PMI, CPA, or CMA.
• Experience with large-scale finance process/ERP harmonization and data governance initiatives.

About Dauch:

Dauch Corporation is a premier Driveline and Metal Forming supplier serving the global automotive industry with a powertrain-agnostic product portfolio that supports electric, hybrid, and internal combustion vehicles. The company is headquartered in Detroit, MI, with operations that span 24 countries and more than 175 locations. Formed through the acquisition of Dowlais Group plc and its subsidiaries - GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy, Dauch unites deep engineering roots with global manufacturing capabilities and an entrepreneurial spirit to move mobility forward. Visit www.dauch.com to learn more.

Dauch will not discriminate against any Associate or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. Dauch will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that Associates are treated equally during employment, without regard to their age, race, color, gender, religion, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or other characteristic protected by law. For the Disabled Job Seeker: We offer reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled individuals who are applicants for employment. To request assistance or accommodations, please e-mail [e-mail]. Dauch is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.