PPG Appoints Melissa Wills as Vice President, Finance Administration
PPG (NYSE: PPG) has appointed Melissa Wills as vice president of finance administration, effective August 1, 2021. Wills will continue her role as CFO of the Americas while expanding her responsibilities to oversee financial administration in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. With over 30 years at PPG, Wills aims to enhance business finance support and transactional processing across the organization. Her extensive experience includes various leadership roles in finance and strategic planning, showcasing her capabilities to drive efficiency.
- Melissa Wills' extensive experience may bring valuable insights and improved financial strategies to PPG.
- Her new role could enhance financial oversight across critical international regions.
- Transitioning to a newly created role may pose challenges in continuity and integration.
- Potential concerns about the impact of leadership changes on existing financial strategies.
PPG (NYSE: PPG) today announced the appointment of Melissa Wills as vice president, finance administration, effective August 1, 2021. Wills will continue to report to PPG senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), Vince Morales.
PPG announced the appointment of Melissa Wills as vice president, finance administration, effective August 1, 2021. (Photo: Business Wire)
In this newly created role, Wills will continue with her current responsibilities as CFO, Americas, and will add responsibility and oversight of financial administration for PPG’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific regions. Wills will draw upon her broad and diverse experiences in various business finance roles, corporate finance functions, shared financial services and audit to drive efficient and effective business finance support and transactional processing.
Wills has held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility over her career with PPG. She joined PPG in 1989 at the Chillicothe, Ohio, Shared Financial Services Center and later moved into the automotive coatings business, where she held finance and strategic planning leadership roles. Wills was appointed director, global shared financial services, in 2006; director, strategic planning, in 2009; director, finance business process transformation in 2010; and assistant controller in 2011. She became director, corporate audit services in 2013, and was named global finance director, automotive refinish, in 2017. Wills was promoted to CFO of the United States and Canada region in 2018, and assumed her current role as CFO, Americas, adding the Latin America region to her accountability in March 2021.
Wills earned a bachelor of science degree at Shawnee State University and a master of business administration degree at Franklin University.
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