CFO Eastern Europe

This search procedure has been closed (02-12-2021).
Field
Finance
Salary
Salary undisclosed
Location
Eastern Europe
Employment
Permanent
Headhunter
Bridgewell

The organisation

Our client is a large multinational fmcg company. With their headquarters based in the Netherlands, the company is internationally growing rapidly. Both through organic growth as well as through M&A activities.

The position

For a subsidiairy of our client, based in Eastern Europe, we're seeking to recruit a CFO to be based locally.

Tasks & responsibilities

The CFO Eastern Europe holds one of the most senior finance positions in the global company. For this position we are looking for a finance professional with a strong business acumen, a clear communicator, influencer, team player and outspoken driver of financial discipline and result.

  • Support and advise senior management on new or existing activities to base decisions on valid economic considerations
  • Assess and help to direct financial and business aspects of masterplan and capex, give advice and improve
  • Assess P&L and align with accounting departments
  • Establish realistic and prudential based budgets and forecasts for the entire enterprise, by co-ordinating the content and refining the project planning & control cycle
  • Provide periodic analyses & timely insightful reports
  • Transfer of knowledge and way of working of Operations control to the organization in order to create efficient (financial) processes and high quality process deliverables
  • Monitor and analyse present financial policies and reporting within Operations and alignment with P&C cycle
  • Develop harmonization of definitions between production locations and create internal benchmarking between them
  • Ensure the creation of a robust periodic "actual P&L" and of an analysis of the realized financial results, explaining developments or lagging results, advising on measurement to improve results
  • Ensure high quality fact based information
  • Develop and improve business models supporting effective decision making with regard to capex or otherwise
  • Assessment of the budgets and forecasts, ensuring consistency and interconnection of data, writing of explanations, ensure reporting and communication
  • Set up and monitor standard cost price calculation and assure one set of numbers within the company

Candidate profile

  • Succesfully completed Bachelor or Masters degree in Business Administration or Economics
  • Experience with (mass) production is a must, preferably in Food & Beverages and/or FMCG
  • Over 10 years relevant work experience
  • Experience in working in Eastern Europe and culturaly aware preferabel
  • Experience in a multinational working environment
  • Will have strong analytical skills to turn data into insights
  • Mature and reliable personality and is a tower of strenght!
  • Strategic agility and priority setting: understand the business, creating compelling strategies and plans
  • Able to engage people, build effective teams, creating momentum and motivate others to outstanding results
  • Hands-on and very practical attitude with an entrepreneurial spirit
  • Excellent English communication skills on all levels of the organization, fluency is a must
  • Organizational agility and planning: ensure perfect execution through right team work and planning
  • Excellent moral compass, undisputed integrity, strong back-bone and a resilient attitude
  • Experience in managing a senior multi-stakeholder working environment
  • Advanced skills in ERP use, data analysis tools and Microsoft Office

Interested?

You can apply to this position by using the link below. 

This search procedure has been closed (02-12-2021).

About this headhunter - Bridgewell Search & Interim

Bridgewell is een executive search en interim boutique, gespecialiseerd in het bemiddelen van executives en professionals vanaf Euro 80.000 tot Euro 400.000. We zijn uniek in onze inhoudelijke en functionele focus op posities in Finance en Information Technology.

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