Senior Vice President Finance

Xylem; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Xylem seeks a Senior Vice President of Finance for Water Solutions & Services to lead the global finance agenda, partner with executive leadership, and drive value across a recurring revenue portfolio. The role focuses on strategy, capital allocation, and disciplined investment aligned with growth priorities.

Primary responsibilities include long-range planning, profitability improvement, and enterprise‑wide FP&A modernization, with a strong emphasis on governance, risk management, and building

Qualifications

• Senior finance executive with global, multi-dimensional business experience.
• Proven track record driving profitable growth, margin expansion and cash flow.
• Strong background in strategic finance, FP&A, capital allocation and M&A.
• Experience operating in a matrixed, global environment and influencing at executive level.
• Results‑oriented leader who translates complexity into actionable insight.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to develop next‑generation leaders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead finance business partner to WSS senior leadership shaping strategy and long‑term financial plans.
• Drive financial insights across outcome‑based services, rentals, and recurring revenue models.
• Lead planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Oversee pricing discipline, service productivity, and value‑based pricing in contracts.
• Guide capital allocation, investments, and M&A evaluation with integration focus.
• Sponsor finance transformation, including FP&A modernization and analytics.
• Ensure strong governance, internal controls, and compliance, including SOX.
• Develop a high‑performing, global finance organization and succession pipelines.

Skills

Strategic finance

FP&A

Capital allocation

M&A

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

Job description

The Senior Vice President, Finance, Water Solutions & Services (WSS) serves as the primary finance leader and strategic business partner for Xylem’s WSS segment. This role is responsible for financial strategy, performance management, capital allocation, and value creation across a global, outcome-based services portfolio with significant recurring revenue, complex contracts, and strong growth ambitions.

The SVP Finance will partner closely with the President, WSS, segment leadership, and enterprise finance to outgrow the market, expand margins, strengthen cash generation, and enable disciplined investment aligned to WSS’s strategic pillars.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Financial Leadership

• Act as the lead finance business partner to WSS senior leadership, shaping strategy, investment decisions, and long-term financial plans that support sustainable, profitable growth.
• Drive portfolio-level financial insights across outcome-based services, rentals, capital projects, and recurring revenue models.
• Provide leadership on long-range planning, annual operating plans, forecasting, and scenario modeling, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives.

Performance Management & Value Creation

• Lead financial rigor around pricing discipline, value-based pricing models, and service productivity, particularly in digitally enabled and outcome-based contracts.
• Ensure timely, accurate actuals, forecasting, and variance analysis, with clear executive-level narratives connected to operational drivers.

Capital Allocation, M&A, and Transformation

• Provide financial leadership on capital allocation, evaluating investments across growth initiatives, rental fleets, service networks, and digital capabilities.
• Play a key role in M&A evaluation, financial due diligence, integration, and value capture, aligned to WSS growth priorities and portfolio strategy.
• Sponsor and drive finance transformation initiatives, including process simplification, FP&A modernization, and enhanced analytics capabilities.

Governance, Controls & Compliance

• Ensure strong financial governance, internal controls, and compliance, including adherence to SOX and enterprise financial policies.
• Maintain robust financial reporting systems that provide leadership with clear, decision-ready insights across geographies and business models.
• Lead, attract, and develop a high-performing global finance organization, building strong succession pipelines and future-ready finance capability.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and inclusion, aligned with Xylem leadership behaviors.

Key Interfaces

• Executive Leadership Team, CFO and Enterprise Finance Leadership
• President, Water Solutions & Services
• WSS Senior Leadership Team and Division Leaders
• Corporate functions (Treasury, Tax, Audit, Strategy, IT/ERP)
• External stakeholders as required (auditors, advisors, investors)

Experience

• Proven senior finance executive experience in complex, global, multi-dimensional businesses, ideally with exposure to services, rentals, industrial, or outcome-based revenue models.
• Demonstrated success driving profitable growth, margin expansion, cash flow, and working capital improvement.
• Strong background in strategic finance, FP&A, capital allocation, and M&A.
• Experience operating effectively in a matrixed, global environment.
• Strategic, enterprise-minded finance leader with strong business acumen and the ability to translate complexity into actionable insight.
• Results-oriented, with a high bias for action and a commitment to accountability.
• Strong communicator capable of influencing at the executive and board level.
• Demonstrated ability to build diverse, high-performing teams and develop next-generation leaders.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required