Reports to: Chief Financial Officer, kdc/one
Location: [Saddle Brook, NJ]
Position SummaryReporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Strategic Finance & Value Creation serves as the CFO's analytical right hand - assisting the CFO in driving enterprise-wide analysis and projects that drive value creation. As a private equity-backed business, kdc/one operates with a clear mandate to grow earnings and improve cash generation. This role supports that mandate - bringing rigorous financial analysis to strategic and operational decisions and owning projects and initiatives that free up CFO capacity.
The successful candidate combines the analytical depth of a former investment banking, private equity, or consulting professional with the pragmatism required to operate inside a fast-moving, global manufacturing organization.
Key ResponsibilitiesEnterprise & Value-Creation Analysis
- Assist the CFO in driving enterprise-wide analysis of profitability, margin, and cash flow - identifying where value is created and eroded across business units, sites, customers, and product categories.
- Build and maintain the analytical framework that links operational drivers to financial outcomes, enabling the CFO to prioritize the highest-return value-creation initiatives.
- Quantify, track, and report on the value-creation initiatives, holding initiative owners accountable to committed targets.
Decision Support to the CFO
- Serve as the CFO's thought partner on strategic and operational decisions, delivering structured, data-driven recommendations under tight timelines.
- Translate complex analyses into clear, executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
- Support development of enterprise-wide financial methodologies for performance and help drive necessary change management.
Performance Management
- Develop enterprise KPIs and dashboards that provide a real-time view of enterprise performance against the value-creation plan.
- Develop enterprise methodologies for critical performance metrics allowing the CFO and LT to make fact-based decisions on operating performance and areas of focus to improve performance.
CFO Support- Lead and support a range of cross-functional projects and initiatives on the CFO's behalf (enterprise-wide finance training development, procurement spend including inflation and directed buy, margin improvement plan, global banking)
- Ad-hoc support
QualificationsExperience & Education
- 8+ years of progressive experience in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, corporate development, or strategic finance/FP&A - ideally with exposure to PE-backed or industrial/manufacturing businesses.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA, CFA, or CPA strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated track record of analysis that drove measurable financial or operational improvement.
Skills & Attributes
- Elite financial modeling and analytical skills; fluent in building EBITDA bridges, value-creation models, and scenario analysis from the ground up.
- Strong command of the levers that drive enterprise value - margin, cash conversion, capital efficiency, and growth.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into executive- and board-ready recommendations.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity, autonomy, and urgency.
- High integrity, intellectual curiosity, and a bias toward action and ownership.
