ROLE & RESPONSIBILITES

The CFO will have responsibility for all accounting, reporting, controls, finance, strategy, IT, and human resources. This individual will be a leader who will provide hands-on and day-to-day management of all financial functions and best practices. As a member of the core leadership team, the CFO will provide informed and objective counsel on business issues and will offer technical and experience-based advice to peer executives and staff. This role will require a background in a manufacturing environment or equivalent and preferred experience working in a private equity backed entity. Along with the rest of the executive leadership team, this individual should be a strong and proactive advocate for value creation and company integration.

People Leadership

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with leaders across the company in order to encourage, support, evaluate divisional and organizational business performance.
• Build a best-in-class financial department by promoting and instilling a culture of personal learning and professional development.
• Ensure the finance team has a clear and compelling vision of 'what great looks like' and a plan around how to achieve it.
• Entrepreneurial leanings, thinking ahead for the company and its people, able to calculate and take risks.
• Ideally a good communicator and high-functioning individual.

Financial and Strategic Leadership

• Coordinate the overall financial activities of the company; lead corporate finance, cash management, tax strategy and regulatory compliance and planning, accounting reporting, planning and analytics, budgeting, forecasting, credit, AR/AP and payroll. Also, leading banking relationships.
• Build a budgeting and analysis capability.
• Monitor and advise on trends that influence inventory planning and capital outlay.
• Ensure that information systems and reporting tools provide members with the information needed to make sound business decisions.
• Work with external auditors to be proactive and out front in making sure all financial statements are created accurately and on time.
• Manage and oversee company accounting staff and other resources in providing monthly financial updates.
• Manage vendor relationships and interviewing of potential vendors (i.e. health insurers, retirement planning, IT vendors, etc.).
• Maximize productivity of the company’s financial resources and optimize financial performance.
• Ensure appropriate risk mitigation through systematic risk assessment and risk mitigation tools and processes.
• Lead the implementation of a new ERP system.