CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER - MANUFACTURING & SUPPLY CHAIN SECTOR

C€(phone number removed) + Bonus & Excellent Benefits

Dusseldorf, Nordrhein Westphalia (Hybrid Working)

Are you a CFO/Chief Financial Officer with a background in the manufacturing and the supply chain sector? Do you have experience working in a multi-national/matrix structure? Would you like to take on a new position with career growth potential?

Our client in Germany needs your skills.

They are a well-established manufacturer and distributor of innovative and life changing products. Part of a pan European group they have a number of manufacturing sites across Europe and as part of a transformational change programme to support growth, they are now looking for a CFO/Chief Financial Officer to lead the team at their main manufacturing site in Germany.

As an experienced CFO/Chief Financial Officer, you'll already understand the detail of this role. In summary, you'll be leading a team of 10 finance and accounting professionals, managing the operational day-to-day financial transactions, KPIs, cash flow planning and forecasting through monthly reports and budgets that can be presented to the senior stakeholders including the MD, Commercial Sales Director, Supply Chain Director and Manufacturing Director. Senior management have also identified potential high-performing individuals in the finance team who they would like you to develop and mentor. Treasury accounting and related aspects will be covered at Group level, so this is very much an operational CFO/Chief Financial Officer role.

You will be university degree educated in business administration, accounting or (financial) controlling and an experienced Financial Director/CFO/Chief Financial Officer. You will have relevant finance management experience gained within a European/global matrix manufacturing organisation. Your experience will include drawing up balance sheets in HGB and IFRS and SAP FI/CO. Understanding of German GAAP useful. Strong knowledge of MS Office applications including Excel, Power BI.

As for you, our client envisages you will be a German national with excellent English language skills. You'll be a confident presenter, as part of your role will be to deliver financial reports to the Southern European head office senior team.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV, quoting reference LX (phone number removed)