SF Search Partners
Chief Financial Officer
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SF Search Partners are currently working with a marketing leading manufacturing business in search for a technically savvy but commercially capable Chief Financial Officer to join their group in The Midlands.
The Role
As CFO, you will report directly to the board and the audit committee and will have overall responsibility for the production of timely and accurate group management accounts, statutory financial reporting, tax, regulatory reporting and cash flow management.
The role requires a strong ability to work as part of a team and to be able to offer help and support to the subsidiary accountants both in the UK and Overseas, as well a capable of communicating effectively from the boardroom to the shopfloor.
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The role will involve excellent exposure to all subsidiary directors and finance teams, and with personal credibility will require wide-ranging relationship building with internal peers and external stakeholders (audit committee, auditors etc).
The Person
The successful CFO will have the following:
- Technically focussed finance leader with ACA / FCA Qualification, having come from an audit background
- Extensive group financial management experience
- Experience of working for a large scale, multinational organisation
- Strong technical group consolidation experience; understanding of consolidation accounting including the accounting for overseas subsidiaries and associates
- Treasury experience; understands how to process and account for complex foreign exchange contract
- Background of working within a long-term contract business, ideally within the manufacturing / engineering industry – a working knowledge of IFRS15 would be ideal
- Knowledge of corporation tax i.e., cash flow forecasting and calculating quarterly on account tax instalments
- High level MS Excel skills – including pivots, chart production, index match and look up functions
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Location
Whilst Midlands based, the business has manufacturing operations globally - you would only be needed in The Midlands between two and three days a week.
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