• Provide senior-level financial guidance to Speer’s leadership team, including recommendations related to growth planning, profitability, pricing, investment decisions, resource planning, and long-term financial sustainability. • Lead budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning to help Speer anticipate financial needs, manage resources effectively, and support informed business decisions. • Prepare and review financial reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators that provide clear visibility into company performance, project profitability, margins, revenue, expenses, and cash position. • Oversee and improve finance-related processes, including invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, project financial tracking, expense management, payroll coordination, and internal reporting workflows. • Support pricing strategy, margin analysis, project budgeting, and profitability reviews for client engagements, proposals, retainers, and long-term partnerships. • Help ensure appropriate financial controls, compliance practices, tax coordination, insurance review, and risk management processes are in place as the company grows. • Act as a trusted financial advisor to the executive team, supporting strategic planning, board or investor-related reporting as needed, and major business decisions. • Support the continued development of Speer’s finance function by improving systems, reporting structures, internal controls, and operational processes as the company scales.

• Integrate FP&A cycles with IBP/S&OP, demand, supply, commercial, CDI and People into a single financial narrative; • Lead the design and operation of the rolling forecast (1–18 months) and build scenarios, sensitivity analyses and simulations on critical variables: volume, mix, price, FX, cost of API, product launches, partnerships and CAPEX; • Coordinate the annual budgeting cycle with a clear calendar, assumptions and governance; • Ensure monthly managerial close with SLAs, analytical quality and variance narrative (vs. budget, prior forecast, prior year and benchmark); • Monitor contribution margin, gross margin, EBITDA, net income, ROIC, working capital and cash conversion cycle; • Construct executive, decision-oriented narratives (not descriptive reporting) with advanced visualization and a solution focus; • Conduct CAPEX portfolio analysis, prioritization and governance, ensuring alignment with the CAPEX Committee and the executive capital allocation dashboard; • Act as a business partner to the directorates (Operations, Commercial/Business, People), anticipating questions, provoking trade-offs and challenging assumptions in a methodical way; • Support the evolution of planning tools and automations (EPM, SAP, Power BI, etc.), reducing reliance on isolated spreadsheets and Access databases; • Establish governance of management data and written procedures (SOPs) for critical processes: budgeting, forecasting, close, CAPEX and rolling forecast; • Apply advanced techniques (statistical forecasting, machine learning) for projecting sales, costs, mix and scenarios, with support from the IBP team; • Develop the team with a focus on high performance, succession planning and talent retention.

• Lead budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting, and financial performance management processes for key areas across the COO and CFO organizations. • Create and enhance financial models, KPI dashboards, reporting tools, and planning frameworks that improve executive visibility and enable data-driven decisions. • Use BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar), Excel, and financial systems to design and deliver accurate, scalable reporting on operating expense, headcount, vendor spend, investment performance, and key business drivers. • Develop insights and recommendations for Finance and business leaders on budget performance, variance drivers, forecast risks and opportunities, investment trade-offs, and cost-optimization opportunities. • Lead the development of monthly and quarterly executive and board-level materials, translating complex financial and operational data into clear narratives for senior COO, CFO, and business leadership. • Drive cross-functional planning with Finance, HR, Business Operations, Procurement, and functional leaders to align headcount planning, operating cadence, investment priorities, and resource allocation decisions. • Identify, develop, and implement process improvements and automation opportunities, including use of AI tools and data automation to increase forecast accuracy, planning efficiency, and executive visibility. • Lead ad hoc financial analyses and special projects for FP&A leadership, the CFO, COO, and senior business leaders, including framing the business question, building the analysis, and communicating actionable recommendations.

• Prepare monthly executive financial summary presentations and annual budget board presentations • Collaborate with accounting during monthly / quarterly close to review and ensure accuracy • Analyze actual versus budget and prepare to present flux / trend analysis to business leaders • Drive solid operating cadence and financial discipline across monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts and planning • Build strong relationships and influence business decisions with leaders across R&D and Products organizations • Define and report KPIs to assess investment level and ROI across the product portfolio • Evaluate operating and financial trends to identify opportunities and offer recommendations to improve efficiency and performance • Develop data-driven financial models with scenario analyses for short- and long-range planning with focus on resource allocation and long-term financial planning • Partner with R&D and Product to perform cost analysis, margin analysis, and overall economics for new products, features or bundles • Assist in initiatives to centralize data for more streamlined reporting and analytics • Contribute to process improvement initiatives and identify requirements for enhancements to existing systems and workflow; automate processes as possible • Aid in the development and improvement of team members’ knowledge and skills of existing and future financial software and processes • Query and manipulate data from various systems to reconcile discrepancies, identify root causes & trends, and summarize findings for leadership • Perform various ad hoc analyses on the business across stated strategic priorities and metrics