The Chief Financial Officer, UK & Europe position is accountable for the administrative, financial, and risk management operations of the company, to include the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
People Leadership
Demonstrates strong, competent leadership for team members to guide them in reaching their full potential and meeting their objectives, which supports achievement of our corporate goals. Specifically, these responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Full involvement with recruiting talent.
- Provides mentoring, coaching and guidance to all team members.
- Objectively recommends compensation adjustments.
- Manages all aspects of performance.
Planning
- Assists in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives.
- Provides leadership in the development for the continuous evaluation of short and long-term strategic financial objectives.
- Monitors and directs the implementation of strategic business plans.
- Evaluates and advises on the impact of long-range planning, introduction of new programs/ strategies and regulatory action.
- Develops performance measures that support the company's strategic direction.
- Manages processes for financial forecasting, budgets and consolidation and reporting to the Board of Directors.
- Provides recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.
- Ensures that effective internal controls are in place and ensures compliance with GAAP and applicable regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting.
Operations
- Participates in key decisions and maintains in-depth relations with all members of the Senior Management Team.
- Directs and oversees all aspects of the Finance, Accounting, IT, Lease Admin and Lease Audit functions of the organisation.
- Ensures credibility of Finance group by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial trends and forecasts.
- Manages any third parties to which functions have been outsourced.
- Oversees the company's transaction processing systems.
- Implements operational best practices.
Risk Management
- Understands and mitigates key elements of the company's risk profile.
- Monitors all open legal issues involving the company, and legal issues affecting the industry.
- Constructs and monitors reliable control systems.
- Maintains appropriate insurance coverage.
- Ensures that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
- Ensures that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies.
- Reports risk issues to the audit committee of the board of directors.
- Maintains relations with external auditors and investigate their findings and recommendations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge & Skills
- Master's degree in accounting or business administration, or equivalent business experience.
- Minimum 10+ years of progressively responsible experience for a major company or division of a large corporation.
- Experience partnering with an executive team and have a high level of written and oral communication skills.
- Experienced at representing the commercial function at the Senior Leadership Committee, as well as being an active contributor.
- Financial expertise, skills and acumen to manage a significant budget, accelerate profitability and accomplish good governance.
- Strong talent management skills including ability to predict future talent needs; identify and attract top talent; assess current and potential performance; mentor, coach, develop, engage and retain top talent.
- Experience in a fast growth environment and a decentralised environment.
- Ability to deal with shifting priorities and issues inherent to a fast-growing organisation.
- Demonstrated skills, knowledge and experience in the design and execution of business plans and strategies.
- Commitment to working with shared leadership and in cross-functional teams.
- Strong creative, strategic, analytical, organisational and personal negotiation skills.
- Possess the required skills and standing to serve on the Leadership Committee.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Senior executive experience and presence.
- Superior organisational awareness.
Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation
▪ CA, CGA, or CMA, CIMA, ACCA
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. At BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organisation. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognise that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organisational success!
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