Finance Director
Full Time
Job Description
- Use expertise in financial analysis to present and communicate financial results to senior executives and influence them in developing new strategies to enhance the organization’s financial performance.
- Guide the financial forecast process with business partners
- Set industry standard for complex financial modeling and continuously improve the company’s reporting and modelling tools based on best practice, enabling advanced financial modeling
- Establish key organizational performance indicators and metrics to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Demonstrate expert understanding of the business successes, challenges, and strategic objectives; draws from experience to evaluate solutions from the business’ perspective and provide advice regarding potential opportunities and risks
- Implement solutions, cognizant of financial and operational factors that work across business units/functions resulting in improved financial performance
- Provide input into the organization’s business model and operations to drive larger business decisions that advance the organization’s mission and enhance its reputation
- Drive project/process resources and requirements that result in the right policies, practices, trends, and information that shape the organization
- Guide organization-wide resource utilization to force simplicity, maximize performance, and value add; monitors the organization’s operational efficiency
- Establish a culture that values high quality delivery of information; work to continuously improve the organization’s level of operational excellence.
- Challenge the organization to identify new and upcoming trends in finance and the economic market impacting own business in order to remain competitive and enhance the competitive advantage of the organization
- Strategically nurture relationships with key decision-makers by helping them successfully navigate through critical business changes and address complex issues in their businesses
- Model and encourage others to handle conflict openly and productively
- Promote a “one-team” mentality that encourages ownership and collaboration around technical and customer problems irrespective of organizational boundaries
- Create pipelines of talent for the future from both internal and external talent pools while setting the vision for the team
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Senior leadership in a variety of operational and strategic, high-visibility finance roles
- Strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in advanced Excel and financial modeling
- Proven ability to influence and drive leadership to decisions and tangible outcomes
- Comfortable creating positive relationships across a number of teams and supporting c-suite level leaders
- A Storyteller: able to build and communicate clearly a vision and strategy.
- Skilled thought-leader, confident and successful at influencing others to act
- Proven track record to work autonomously and lead a broad range of projects simultaneously and efficiently
- Able to evaluate and making recommendations across opposing and equally critical business needs
- Ability to handle multiple priorities with a high degree of flexibility and accountability, in a constantly fast-evolving environment
- Drive high standards for individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously work towards challenging goals
- Demonstrate a keen understanding of business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth
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