Chief Financial Officer

Job Description

Reporting to the Chairman, alongside the other Board members, your role as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will be to shape and deliver the short term and long-term strategy of our organisation through a soundfinancialinfrastructure and balanced commercialdecision making. Your day to day activities will include overseeing a small but efficient financial team.BASIC SALARY: to £100,000LOCATION: Midlands (Northamptonshire)COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Northampton, Wellingborough, Leicester, Bedford, Milton Keynes, CoventryKEY RESPONSIBILITIES : Chief Financial Officer, CFO - FMCG, privately ownedAs right hand to the Chairman and as a major player on the board, you will be responsible for setting and driving strategy as well as delivering robust and timelyfinancialinformation to the business and external stakeholders and all management and statutoryreporting for this private owned organisation. Ultimately, you will work with these stakeholders to lead the wholesale divestment of the organisation at some point in the future.PERSON SPECIFICATION: Chief Financial Officer, CFO - FMCG, privately ownedIdeally, you will be working or will have worked within a standalone or private equity backed organisation, but we will consider candidates from divisional Finance Director roles if the sector experience is particularly relevant. The ideal sectors would includeexperience in the houseware, giftware, toy products or wholesale space but we are open to others.You will be a qualified Accountant and probably already working within a standalone manufacturing or wholesale / distribution business, although we would consider manufacturing candidates with a blue-chip background who are looking for that first break intoprivate equity.The successful candidate must have previous M&A experience and be capable of creating very detailed reports budgets / cashflow / forecasts etc. You will also liaise with our external advisors to ensure all aspects of accounting procedures are efficient - VAT,tax, etc.This exciting role is not for the stale, steady eddy type but aimed at a true entrepreneur that wants the excitement of being involved with something getting BIG and is prepared to make it happen and be supported by a multimillion £ operation.THE COMPANY:We have created a multimillion-pound business in the UK and the US where we are the number one supplier in our sector. We are on an upward curve and achieved 25% growth in the last few years and we need an ambitious and drivenChiefFinancialOfficerto joinus.It is a full time role, and we want to reward excellent performance.We are a very successful privately owned businessthat prides itself in delivering world class branded products. The mind-set of the leadership team is very entrepreneurial and we welcome people that are driven, focused with bags of energy too! You need tomake it happen and will be rewarded for it.INTERESTED Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.REF: IL17343, Wallace Hind Selection