Finance Manager, Specialty Products — Growth & Insights

EQI Ltd.; Westlake (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with company match

Unlimited paid time off

Wellness programs

Global growth opportunities

Job summary

EQI Ltd. is seeking a Finance Manager for the Specialty Products Division in Westlake, OH. You will lead end-to-end financial close, consolidation, and regional accounting, ensuring US GAAP compliance and audit readiness.

The role partners with SPD leadership to drive margin improvement, strategic planning, and scalable processes across the region. You will manage statutory, tax, and regulatory compliance, strengthen internal controls, and provide forward-looking FP&A insights to support growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong Excel and ERP experience, preferably NetSuite.
• Progressive accounting leadership experience, including close, controls, and team management.
• Experience operating in multinational or matrixed organizations.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrity, timeliness, and governance of monthly and annual financial close, ensuring decision-ready reporting for leadership and corporate stakeholders.
• Lead regional consolidation activities to deliver accurate and aligned results to the Global Controller and Corporate Finance.
• Ensure consistent application of US GAAP and corporate accounting policies, exercising judgment on complex or non-routine transactions.
• Analyze financial results and key variances to identify performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, and proactively communicate insights to leadership.
• Support consolidated, statutory, and lender reporting requirements, ensuring transparency, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Provide leadership over local statutory, tax, and regulatory compliance, ensuring requirements are met while supporting business agility and growth.
• Own the design, effectiveness, and continuous strengthening of internal controls, aligned with corporate governance standards and risk appetite.
• Partner with Global Finance to support enterprise risk management, governance frameworks, and control consistency across regions.
• Ensure ongoing audit readiness and transparency, serving as the primary regional liaison for external auditors, regulators, and internal reviews.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate financial and operational risks, advising leadership on exposures, trade-offs, and control enhancements.
• Own the budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, ensuring alignment with the FP&A group on strategic priorities and operational realities.
• Provide forward-looking insights into regional financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities to inform leadership decision-making.
• Support margin expansion and cost optimization strategies through disciplined analysis of cost structures, productivity, and operational leverage.
• Act as a trusted strategic finance partner to the SPD leadership team, influencing business direction through insight, judgment, and financial rigor.
• Provide financial leadership on key commercial and investment decisions, including contracts, pricing strategies, capital expenditures, and resource allocation.
• Assess business performance against strategic objectives, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions and trade-offs.
• Translate complex financial results into clear, actionable insights that enable timely, informed leadership decisions.
• Influence commercial outcomes through margin analysis, pricing discipline, cost structure optimization, and scenario evaluation.
• Support growth initiatives, integrations, and scale-up activities by providing financial perspective on risks, synergies, and execution readiness.
• Provide forward-looking cash flow and liquidity insights to inform operational priorities, capital allocation, and growth decisions.
• Drive enterprise-level working capital strategy across receivables, payables, and inventory, balancing cash optimization with customer and supplier considerations.
• Partner with Corporate Finance on treasury strategy, banking relationships, and funding initiatives to support business continuity and scalability.
• Build and lead a high-performing regional accounting organization that delivers strong technical execution and sound business judgment.
• Set clear performance expectations aligned to business outcomes, fostering accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Develop talent and succession plans to ensure organizational resilience and readiness for future growth and complexity.
• Lead finance process transformation initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability, and control while enabling timely, decision-ready information.
• Champion effective use of ERP and financial systems to enhance data integrity, reporting quality, and operational insight.
• Act as the SPD finance lead for global initiatives, ensuring successful adoption while representing regional needs and risks.
• Provide financial leadership over inventory and cost structures to support margin management, pricing decisions, and operational efficiency.
• Establish and maintain accurate costing methodologies aligned with business realities and accounting standards.
• Oversee capital asset governance, ensuring disciplined investment, accurate reporting, and alignment with long-term business strategy.

Skills

Financial reporting

GAAP knowledge

Leadership

ERP systems

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Finance ManagerEQI Specialty Products Division

Westlake, OH

Reports toGlobal Controller

PositionSummary:

Finance Manager,Specialty Products— Leads theend‑to‑endfinancial reporting, controls, and compliance for EQISpecialty Products(SPD). Reporting to the Global Controller, this role partners closely withSPDleadership to deliveraccurate,timelyresults, translate performance into actionable insights, and support margin improvement and growth initiatives. TheSPDFinance Managerowns the close, statutory compliance, cash and working capital, leads the regional accounting team, and drives process standardization and scalability in ahigh‑accountabilityenvironment.

KeyResponsibilities:

1. Financial Reporting & Close

• Own the integrity, timeliness, and governance of monthly and annual financial close, ensuring decision‑ready reporting for leadership and corporate stakeholders.

• Lead regional consolidation activities to deliveraccurateand aligned results tothe GlobalController and Corporate Finance.

• Ensure consistent application of US GAAP and corporate accounting policies, exercising judgment on complex ornon‑routine transactions.

• Analyze financial results and key variances toidentifyperformance drivers, risks, and opportunities, and proactively communicate insights to leadership.

• Supportconsolidated, statutory, and lender reporting requirements, ensuring transparency, compliance, and audit readiness.

2. Compliance & Internal Controls

• Provide leadership over local statutory, tax, and regulatory compliance, ensuring requirements are met while supporting business agility and growth.

• Own the design, effectiveness, and continuous strengthening of internal controls, aligned with corporate governance standards and risk appetite.

• Partner with Global Finance to support enterprise risk management, governance frameworks, and control consistency across regions.

• Ensure ongoing audit readiness and transparency, serving as the primary regional liaison for external auditors, regulators, and internal reviews.

• Proactivelyidentify, assess, and mitigate financial and operational risks,advisingleadership on exposures,trade‑offs, and control enhancements.

3. Financial Planning & Analysis Support

• Ownthe budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning, ensuring alignment withthe FP&A group onstrategic priorities and operational realities.

• Provide forward‑looking insights into regional financial performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities to inform leadership decision‑making.

• Support margin expansion and cost optimization strategies through disciplined analysis of cost structures, productivity, and operational leverage.

4. Operational Finance Leadership

• Act as a trusted strategic finance partner to theSPDleadership team, influencing business direction through insight, judgment, and financial rigor.

• Provide financial leadership on key commercial and investment decisions, including contracts, pricing strategies, capital expenditures, and resource allocation.

• Assess business performance against strategicobjectives,identifyinggaps, risks, and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions andtrade‑offs.

• Translate complex financial results into clear, actionable insights that enabletimely, informed leadership decisions.

• Influence commercial outcomes through margin analysis, pricing discipline, cost structure optimization, and scenario evaluation.

• Support growth initiatives, integrations, and scale‑up activities by providing financial perspective on risks, synergies, and execution readiness.

5. Cash Flow & Working Capital Management

• Provide forward‑looking cash flow and liquidity insights to inform operational priorities, capital allocation, and growth decisions.

• Drive enterprise‑level working capital strategy across receivables, payables, and inventory, balancing cash optimization with customer and supplier considerations.

• Partner with Corporate Finance on treasury strategy, banking relationships, and funding initiatives to support business continuity and scalability.

6. Team Leadership & Development

• Build and lead a high‑performing regional accounting organization that delivers strong technical execution and sound business judgment.

• Set clear performance expectations aligned to business outcomes, fostering accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.

• Develop talent and succession plans to ensure organizational resilience and readiness for future growth and complexity.

7. Systems & Process Improvement

• Lead finance process transformation initiatives that improve efficiency, scalability, and control while enablingtimely, decision‑ready information.

• Champion effective use of ERP and financial systems to enhance data integrity, reporting quality, and operational insight.

• Act as theSPDfinanceleadforglobal initiatives, ensuring successful adoption whilerepresentingregional needs and risks.

8. Inventory & Capital Asset Management

• Provide financial leadership over inventory and cost structures to support margin management, pricing decisions, and operational efficiency.

• Establish andmaintainaccuratecostingmethodologies aligned with business realities and accounting standards.

• Oversee capital asset governance, ensuring disciplined investment,accuratereporting, and alignment with long‑term business strategy.

Qualifications and Key Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, ora relateddiscipline.

• Professional accounting designation preferred (CPA).

• Strong financial systems capability, with advancedproficiencyin Excel and experience working within ERP environments (NetSuitepreferred).

• Progressive accounting leadership experience, including responsibility forclose,controls, and team management, ideally within manufacturing and/or distribution environments.

• Experienceoperatingin multinational or matrixed organizations, with the ability to align regional execution to global standards.

• Proven ability to perform effectively in a fast‑growth, high‑accountability environment, balancing speed, accuracy, and sound judgment.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights and recommendations.

• A curious, detail‑oriented leader with a continuous‑improvement mindset and a bias toward practical solutions.

• Collaborative, hands‑on leader who builds trust, leads by example, and develops strong working relationships across functions.

• Advanced problem‑solving and troubleshooting capabilities, with comfort addressing ambiguity and non‑routine issues.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial insights to senior leadership and external stakeholders.

• Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines under pressure, andmaintaina high standard of professionalism and service.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise judgment within established frameworks, and drive work to completion with minimal supervision.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support thewell‑being, growth, and success of our employees. Highlights include:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage:Medical, dental, and vision insurance to support the health needs of employees and their families.

• 401(k) with Company Match:Competitive retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions to help employees buildlong‑termfinancial security.

• Flexible, Unlimited Paid Time Off:An unlimited PTO policy designed to promote work–life balance and allow employees the flexibility they need for rest, personal time, and family commitments.

• Positive and Collaborative Work Environment:A culture that values teamwork, integrity, continuous improvement, and open communication.

• Wellness Programs:Access to a range of wellness initiatives that promote physical and mentalwell‑beingincluding an EAP program and options formaintaininga healthy lifestyle with gym reimbursement

• Global Growth Opportunities:The chance to work for and grow with an expanding international organization, with exposure to global teams, perspectives, and career development pathways.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic. Applicants needing accommodations during the interview process may request them by phone or email