Job Description:

Our client, a 200M global manufacturing and distribution company owned by an academy Private Equity firm is seeking a Chief Financial Officer who can serve as a “Business Partner” with the Chief Executive Officer, as well as a key member of their senior management team. The successful candidate will be an experienced, drive, good-natured executive with a proven track record of leading the financial organization in a private equity owned company. The candidate must have proven success in evaluating, directing and assisting organizations with: value creation (including significant acquisition experience), strategic planning, driving growth and profitability initiatives, implementing sustainable continuous improvement, and change management.

Additionally, fully qualified candidates must have significant operational finance experience in order to provide a vision, focus and execution in these areas and the ability to assemble, motivate, retain, and develop a talented finance and accounting management team.

Key responsibilities:

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Responsibilities include day-to-day oversight of the following functional areas:

• Financial Planning, Strategic Planning & Business Analysis
• Controllership
• Treasury
• Tax
• Insurance/Risk Management
• Internal and Board Reporting

Additional responsibilities will include strategic planning, acquisitions, and building and maintaining relationships with the Company’s Board of Directors, banking partners, large stakeholders, and other key stakeholders.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will possess the following functional skills:

• Value creation strategic planning experience
• CFO experience in manufacturing and distribution experience is desired
• Significant acquisition experience
• Cost and pricing experience in a manufacturing company in a PE firm
• Internal accounting and reporting expertise
• Treasury expertise
• Experience in financially engineering and negotiating/structuring credit agreements
• P&L oversight and monitoring

Education :

An undergraduate degree is required and an advanced degree is preferred

MBA