Vice President, Operations Finance

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As the VP of Operations Finance, you will play a key role in driving financial excellence, fostering collaboration, and empowering teams to make informed, strategic decisions. You will guide and manage a high-performing global finance team, ensuring financial strategies support business growth, operational efficiency, and long-term sustainability.

As a trusted partner to the Chief Supply Chain Officer, you will provide financial guidance on key initiatives—helping teams navigate challenges, optimize resources, and drive impactful results. This is an opportunity to lead with purpose, shaping the future of Operations Finance through innovation, connection, and strategic impact.

We value individuals who can Think Fast, leveraging financial insights to proactively solve problems and create opportunities; Work It Together, building trusted relationships and fostering a culture of collaboration that aligns finance with business goals; and Make the Hard Call, making thoughtful, people-centered decisions that balance risk, investment, and long-term value creation.

Position location: This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based out of Deerfield, IL. Effective mid-2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant workspaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.

What you will be doing

• Guide and develop the Operations Finance team while serving as a strategic and trusted partner to the Chief Supply Chain Officer.
• Establish strong financial partnerships with senior stakeholders, fostering collaboration to drive business objectives.
• Oversee financial strategy and operations, including monthly close, forecasting, planning, and key performance tracking for global operations.
• Provide financial guidance in supplier negotiations, contract development, and large-scale operations and supply chain initiatives.
• Identify and implement solutions to address variances in budgets, forecasts, and business plans.
• Drive continuous improvement, streamlining processes to enhance efficiency and deliver faster, more actionable insights.
• Ensure accurate inventory valuation, managing standard costs, reserves, and variance capitalization.
• Support M&A activities, including due diligence and financial integration of acquired businesses.
• Develop and mentor top finance talent, fostering a high-performance culture through effective hiring, coaching, and career progression.
• Manage, guide, and inspire a global finance team (4 direct reports, 55+ indirect reports), ensuring strong performance, engagement, and growth.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 15+ years of finance leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven expertise in financial strategy and operations within a manufactured product company.
• Experience leading finance teams in a unionized, multi-plant environment, ensuring alignment with operational and business objectives.
• Deep knowledge of financial planning and analysis tools, driving data-informed decision-making and business optimization.
• Extensive experience in M&A financial integration, joint ventures, and supply and distribution agreements, supporting long-term business growth.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $245,000 - $290,000. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. To support our efforts, we invite you to voluntarily share your gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. This information is confidential and helps us ensure an inclusive hiring process and improve our diversity initiatives.

Reasonable Accommodations:

FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.