Chief Financial Officer

**Missions and responsabilities**:

- Accounting:

- Supervising the monthly closing to provide the full view to the board of directors.
- Support the head of accounting for the audits and give guidelines for financial statement establishment.
- Manage the consolidation of all the subsidiaries of the group (7 countries) and ensure they all fit with Group and Local GAAP.
- Controlling:

- Continue the improvement of analytical system and exchange with the central team on future improvements and reports to be implemented in SAP and to be transmitted to BoD.
- Provide profitability analysis and initiate corrective actions to improve financial performance of the different sites
- Support the central team on Purchasing process and on implementation on new global supply contracts.
- Financing:

- Follow up of the investment plan and ensure that cash spend is in line with expectations.
- Analysing very regularly all deviations and project future indebtedness in order to anticipate any bottleneck.
- Regular updates of free cash flow analysis to provide visibility to sites.
- Discussions with Group treasury to implement new financing solutions for new projects.
- Find alternative financing non-guaranteed and ensure their implementation.
- Treasury:

- Validation of payments for all sites.
- Weekly cash plan by sites to ensure OWCR remains at good level.
- Weekly follow up with central team to ensure Receivables are well collected.
- Business:

- Leadership in the Budget process and ensure that business needs are aligned with financial constraints of the group in all the countries (7 countries) and at Group level
- Support business development by providing analysis and tools to measure future projects
- Exchange within EPO on various topics (profitability of sites, discrepancy on the production volume.)
- Legal:

- Ensure legal requirements are achieved by exchanging with external subcontractor.
- Support legal documentation in implementation of new projects (financing, legal creation of company.)
- Others:

- Preparation of financial & business presentation for internal or external usage (BoD, EPO.)
- Support and provide guidelines to the central team to be able to achieve all the needs of the Group.
- Team management:

- Managing and supervising a team of 4-5 people who is expanded fast and provide them guidance and help to support their personal and professional growth.
- Providing leadership to support strong H&S policy from the group.
- Being the key interlocutor for top management to support financial and business needs.

**Your profile**:

- Education: Master’s degree in finance / Accounting.
- 10 years’ experience in an industrial environment in Europe.
- Successful experience in non-hierarchical project mode is a plus.
- Experience in small industrial activity creation and development is a plus.
- Able to create, develop, maintain a complete activity business plan from scratch.
- Able to establish and maintain working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Able to interact effectively and professionally within a multi-cultural environment.
- Able to make timely decisions and provide direction in accordance with business needs and objectives.
- Able to communicate effectively (both in written and verbal form), at all levels of the organization.
- Able to think systemically and solve problems effectively and efficiently.
- Strong critical thinking / analytical skills.
- Strong IT skills required (Windows pack office) + Knowledge on SAP by design is considered as a plus.
- Languages: Fluent English and French, other European languages are a plus.