Financial Director Jobs

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the preparation and management of Working Capital improvement activities.
• Help in managing and reducing inventory levels and in looking at the overall production process to optimize working capital.
• This is a highly hands on role with a focus on detail, which requires the ability to work quickly and accurately on an independent basis, giving great attention to detail and displaying the initiative to quickly identify and resolve variances, failures, and discrepancies.
• Direct preparation of budgets by reviewing budget proposals, engaging appropriate staff members, preparing necessary supporting documentation and justification in accordance with the Corporations reporting formats and requirements.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with business unit functional leaders to solve problems and advise on how business actions may affect the financials.
• Provide support on operational issues to insure profitable growth.
• Make strategic recommendations to optimize revenue growth, improve working capital performance, and drive operating profit year over year.
• Assist with pricing evaluation to ensure proposed contracts are achieving appropriate level of profitability.
• Monitor payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general accounting and cost accounting functions to ensure process controls are efficient and effective.
• Recruit, train, supervise and develop finance department staff and conduct annual performance evaluations
• Reconcile sales and profit performance to forecast, budget and prior year data.
• Present credibly during senior management presentations to Corporate leadership team while providing evidence backed data and strategic recommendations.
• Assist in ongoing assessment of the departmental human resource requirements (interview, hire, promote, discipline, discharge) ensuring fairness and consistency is maintained.
• Prepare financial statements and financial forecast for the business segment monthly.
• Provide regular and completely transparent updates to all stakeholders of Finance and roll up to Corporate Finance team.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Self-motivated: Drives for results.
• Persuasive: Able to build good relationships with colleagues and influence the decision making of senior executives.
• Energetic: A self-starter, genuinely enthusiastic, strong personal work ethic.
• Ambition: Results oriented, detail orientation, time management, work/life balance
• Communication: Listening, feedback, oral presentation, influence, written communication.
• Credible: Can command respect of staff and external customers.
• Team Player: Can function in team-oriented environment.
• Leadership: Integrity, flexibility, embraces change, executive presence, courage, strategic, develops others.
• Detail Orientated: Able to assure that minor and complex details are attended to and accomplished.
• Strategic: Able to envision and articulate “the big picture” and help colleagues understand goals. Demonstrated ability to make strategic recommendations to advance business objectives.
• Thinker: Decisive, deals with ambiguity, continuously learns, cognitive ability, innovative, solutions oriented.
• Ethical: Possesses honesty, integrity, and the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Interpersonal: Has skills necessary to gain the trust of others to interact effectively with persons at all levels, both internally and externally, to develop rapport and gain key insights into business processes or alternative approaches.

Education and Experience:

• MBA or MA degree in Finance or Accounting, or CPA license is preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance is required
• 10 + years of proven ability to lead a financial team
• 10+ years of experience in general and/or plant accounting, including an understanding of forecasting, budgeting, costing, and inventory control.