Finance Director, North America Operations
Location: Noblesville, Indiana (USA) & Juarez, Mexico
Department: Finance & Accounting – North America Operations
Reports to: VP, Finance & Accounting
Company: Ambu
Purpose of the Position
The Finance Director, North America Operations, is responsible for leading the financial governance of Ambu’s manufacturing operations in Noblesville, USA, and Juarez, Mexico. The role ensures strong compliance, accurate and timely financial reporting, and effective financial planning and analysis across both sites. This position plays a key role in supporting operational performance, driving cost transparency, and aligning financial processes across two regulatory environments. The Director will lead multi-country finance teams and help build scalable financial frameworks to support the continued growth of Ambu’s North America operations to secure the two sites further uplocks their strategic potential.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
• Lead leaders and foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture while providing mentorship to develop team capabilities.
• Collaborate with Group Operations Finance to provide timely, relevant, and insightful financial information.
• Align team objectives with Global F&A and the company’s strategic goals, ensuring effective communication between global and local finance teams.
• Work closely with the shared service center and Global Finance Specialist teams (Tax and Treasury) in line with the established operating model.
• Provide senior financial leadership to both Noblesville (US) and Juarez (MX).
• Lead multicultural and cross-border finance teams, ensuring consistent communication, collaboration, alignment, and adherence to Corporate Values and work ethics.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the US (008) and Mexican (012) factory incl. (350), led by the teams.
• Provide strategic insights through financial analysis to support factory operations and on-going cost optimization.
• Gatekeep investment applications for CAPEX and capacity/inventory planning from a financial perspective.
• Deliverables are timely reported to Global Finance Operations and in templates provided.
• Collaborate with business leaders to translate financial data into actionable strategies in a consistent and pro-active manner.
• Strengthen FP&A processes by further implement corporate practice of standard costing and variance analysis across both sites.
• Integrate yield, scrap, productivity indicators, and cost modeling into financial reviews.
• Support long-term scenario modeling for capacity expansion, productivity improvements, and resource planning.
Financial Reporting & Compliance
• Oversee statutory compliance, audit and financial reporting for the factory in US (008), Mexico (350) and the maquiladora entity (012), incorporated in Denmark.
• Ensure adherence to local regulations, global policies, and financial internal controls across all entities.
• Cultivate a mindset of collaboration and continuous improvement in the accounting team.
• Ensure compliance with Group GAAP (IFRS) in accordance with internal accounting policies, and work with the regional tax function and other SME to drive state and local tax requirements (sales/use tax, property tax), statutory filings.
• Support compliance activities related to FDA-regulated manufacturing environments (preferred).
• Ensure compliance with Mexican requirements including ISR, IVA, DIOT, CFDI, electronic accounting, IMMEX/maquila requirements, transfer pricing, and SAT audits.
• Provide governance oversight related to IMSS, INFONAVIT, and STPS cost-related implications.
• Manage external audits in both the United States and Mexico.
Cross-Border Financial Integration
• Harmonize costing methodologies, reporting standards, and internal controls across US and Mexico operations to Global standards while considering local requirements.
• Align practices between local finance teams, the shared service center, and global finance groups to ensure unified financial reporting.
• Strengthen cross-border consistency in variance analysis, cost transparency, and financial governance.
Strategic Contribution
• Serve as a key business partner to regional leadership, providing financial guidance to drive decision-making.
• Identify risks and opportunities within the COGS portfolio and develop mitigation strategies.
• Support integration and alignment of finance processes across entities, ensuring scalability and efficiency, by adhering to global processes and data models.
• Support the roadmap of the financial shared service center including in-/outsourcing of financial processes.
• Support future ERP implementation.
• Build scalable financial processes, governance systems, and internal controls to support the accelerated growth expected in Ambu Mexico in close collaboration with the senior leadership team in Global Finance & Accounting.
• Partner closely with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure financial transparency and strong decision support.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; advanced degree or CPA/CMA preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of financial leadership experience, including experience supporting manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated experience working across both US and Mexico regulatory environments.
• Deep knowledge of US GAAP or IFRS and strong familiarity with Mexican financial regulations, IMMEX/maquila requirements, and transfer pricing.
• Proven experience in FP&A, cost accounting, variance analysis, and operational finance.
• Experience leading multi-country teams and working in cross-functional, multicultural environments.
• Strong partnering skills with Operations, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing.
• Hands-on leadership style, strong accountability, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Fluent in English; Spanish proficiency preferred.