Head of Finance

Purpose of the role

As a Head of Finance, you will work closely with the Regional President and the Head of Finance. Europe Finance will be leading the Europe finance function and will be spear-heading the regional Company’s financial quarterly forecast, annual budgeting process, strategic plan, and all operating plans, including variance analysis and special projects.

This role will provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management, including preparing financial presentations, investment analysis and insights, industry/peer group comparisons, new business opportunities, acquisition analysis and other projects requested by senior management. This function acts as the analytical engine of the European region to provide insights and support ‘optimal’ business decision-making.

The role will report directly to the VP of FP&A Global Finance with a dotted line to the President of the region, and it will be based out of our Europe HQ in Barcelona.

 Essential Duties: 

• Analytics: Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow. Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes.
• Performance Measurement: Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance and work with respective leaders to develop, implement and track corrective actions needed to return the business to operating targets. Maintain overhead standards in the company and other estimating/quoting metrics in use to ensure profitability and free cash flow.
• Strategic Modeling: Enhance and execute the process and models to support the 7-year Strategic plan, Annual Budgets, Financial Forecasts, and Operating Plans including financial and non-financial metrics. Includes full set of financial statement (Balance sheet, Income Statement and Cash flow), detailed sales and COGS plans and overhead expenses.
• Reporting: Ad-Hoc Reporting and in-depth analysis to supporting the Executive Leadership Team and Functional leaders. Prepare all monthly and quarterly financial reports and related presentations to the Executive Leadership Team. Partner with IT to Build and implement dashboard reporting from enterprise data warehouse as the single source of truth across business reporting.
• Corporate Relationships: Working in conjunction with the Treasurer and Controller to maintain an excellent working relationship with the company's banks, including the preparation and management of all required reporting to external stakeholders.
• People leadership: Lead and manage a team with 5 direct reports (+25 finance team members) covering all countries in the region. Effectively integrate finance into the overall strategic direction of the business. Develops and cares about associates, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback. Lead and support team goals and develop exceptional talent while building high performance teams. Influence others in a performance driven and accountable, results-driven culture.
• Hands-on Business Support: This role will spend between ~ 40% of their time immersed in the business. Given the nature of direct reporting relationships as well as indirect business leadership, a detailed and ongoing understanding of the individual and collective business is essential. It is expected that this role will balance and bridge the connectivity between the Corporate / Global priorities with that of our operating units.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance; MBA highly preferred
• Senior level experience in a Finance Leadership role (Sr. Director / VP) in manufacturing environment.
• Typically, this position would require a minimum of 10 years’ experience in progressively financial leadership responsible positions within the manufacturing and extensive experience with treasury, corporate accounting, audit and controllership functions.
• Understanding and application of Financial Accounting Principles and GAAP
• Understanding and application of Cost Accounting principles and Supply Chain analysis. Direct experience in Supply Chain Finance.
• Proven track record in people leadership (attracting, developing, coaching, guiding) and departmental budget management.
• The ability to establish relationships based on trust at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members co-operatively in a hands-on management capacity
• Experience in an environment requiring business enablement, process building and scaling
• Excellent written, verbal and presentational communication skills..
• Track record of consistently achieving results, even under though circumstances.
• Fluency in English and other languages would be valuable.
• Ability to travel globally 25-30%

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