Dir, Finance Helium-Rare Gases (Finance)

Director Finance Helium - Rare Gases Location: The Woodlands, TX The Director of Finance, Global Helium will be accountable for reporting on Linde enterprise helium sales of $1.3B and rare gas sales of $300M. These responsibilities include the global consolidation for the month-end close process, corporate / business reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, planning, and capital investment analysis. Responsibilities • Support leadership team in developing a Helium and Rare Gases P&L forecast, planning and monthly reporting that is integrated with strategic and operational plans that support the Company's financial goals and objectives. • Work closely with Segment and Region Finance leaders to develop and report out on Linde's Enterprise Helium & Rare Gas sales, volume, selling price and overall profitability. Including evaluation of global inventories of rare gases. • Manage financial analysis of business and product-line initiatives including data mining/opportunity identification to provide recommendations that support objectives. • Partner with leadership team to identify business and financial risks, prepare and execute P&L budget and strategy, analyze financial variances to initiate appropriate action, monitor and manage key business drivers of financial results, appropriately communicate business trends and results to senior staff. • Lead capital projects financial analysis across the business to ensure projects are linked to strategy and guide optimal capital allocation. • Accurately and timely measurement of helium inventories to ensure proper expense and inventory accounting. Including consideration of alternate inventory measurement practices to minimize exposure to changes in helium prices & costs. • Lead evaluation and implementation of business intelligence initiatives (tools/process) that enhance reporting systems, quality, and timeliness for optimal business decisions. • Ensure related financial targets and in-process performance measures are effective and enabling optimal results. Partner with cross-functional leaders to continuously improve measures. • Work closely with leadership team to ensure business unit compliance and oversee the integration of finance and accounting discipline into the business. • Collaborate with productivity and digitalization teams on projects around accounting standardization tools to ensure appropriate accounting treatment for various transactions. • Provides economic analyses, studies, and counsels on all matters of potentially significant financial impact to the business unit, including economic/competitive trends, pricing, cash flow, product line evaluation, capital expenditure analysis and new investment considerations. Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting, MBA preferred. • Minimum fifteen (15) years' experience in Finance or Accounting. • Ability to manage complex, meet deadlines and deliver results with a high sense of urgency. • Ability to leverage financial insights to influence strategy and operations; Applies innovation to financial processes to support growth and cost optimization. • Communicates strategic business objectives to lead and implement change. • Ability to analyze a breadth of data for relationships and in-depth understanding in order to influence financial plans and continuous process improvement. • Effective communication across all levels of the organization. Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2024 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including the production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity & specialty gases for electronics. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com #LI-MD1 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.