Business Process Owner Finance Director

Rogers is a global leader in engineered materials to power, protect and connect our world. We are passionate about helping the world's leading innovators solve their toughest material challenges. Rogers is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, USA, and we manufacture products in the U.S., China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Hungary and Belgium. Our innovative solutions empower our customers’ technological breakthroughs. We are proud to set the standard for reliability, efficiency and performance. Summary: Rogers Corporation is currently seeking an individual to join the Business Transformation Program team to own the Finance space, to include thought leadership, partnership with stakeholders to develop and drive strategies, designing and implementing process improvements, as well as participate in a corporate wide enterprise resource planning deployment.Essential Functions:

• Functional subject matter expert understanding the business processes and technologies in the global functional finance area.
• Defines future state process for functional group by identifying gaps and business improvement opportunities.
• Partners with IT in understanding technology business needs and future strategy. Monitor, discover and evaluate new and evolving service offerings to support continuous improvement and value creation in the function.
• Leverage knowledge insights from functional group to ensure that value delivery from process improvements is well understood by key stakeholders and ensure all are aligned on key objectives. Support functional leads in realization of benefits linked to process and technology improvements.
• Together with BPO Team, serve as product owner for process changes and enhancements by working with other business and process leaders to align strategies and priorities to maximize value of delivered solutions.
• During specific deployment initiatives, build and manage relationships with functional implementation leads and to move initiatives forward, raise concerns to appropriate leaders early and resolve open issues that prevent group progress. Report updates and monitors KPI’s to organizational leaders on progress of projects, risk, dependencies, budgets, issues, critical milestones and actions during and post implementation.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 12+ years of experience in functional finance roles; experience in both global financial planning and analysis functions, as well as global corporate accounting.
• Experience managing business process and leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to build trust, interact globally with all levels of the organization and able to effectively communicate and influence team members across cultures.
• Change Leadership- demonstrated performance as a change agent; ability to drive discussions to conclusions and manage through setbacks. Must be action and results orientated with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Travel: Up to 25%.