Chief Financial Officer - St. Louis, MO

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One of my hiring managers (CEO of a successful construction company located in St. Louis, MO) has asked me to help him find a Chief Financial Officer who is ready to take his game to the next level. If you read the description below and think that you’re a fit, I can be your conduit to a conversation with the decision maker for this role.

Position Summary

The Chief Financial Officer will lead and develop an internal team to support finance, budgeting and business planning.

Responsibilities

  • Forge positive relationships with business unit leaders, so that new opportunities may be fully evaluated, current strategies challenged, revenues maximized, and costs appropriately managed

  • Manage staff of five direct reports. Includes setting of objectives and performance/compensation reviews

  • Interpret and analyze financial statements, sales reports and other data to pinpoint areas of opportunity or where budgets/plans are not being met, and then meet with relevant stakeholders to co-author plans to improve

  • Oversee forecasted monthly P&L, cash flow and balance sheet – for the current calendar year and rolling 12 months

  • Read, understand and implement a variety of contracts and agreements; identify areas of risk and establish/negotiate deal points

  • Establish and maintain an effective purchasing and payables process to ensure proper approval, receipt of goods, and payment of vendor-partners

  • Detail monthly review of royalty reports

  • Lead budget process and manage business to achieve budget objectives

  • Lead and manage traditional financial responsibilities:

  • Bank relationship

  • Manage property and casualty insurance

  • Manage group insurance in partnership with Human Resources team

  • Financial analysis

  • Formalize capital expenditure planning

  • Overall responsibility for annual audit and for maintaining on-going dialog with auditors

  • Collaborate with internal teams on ERP selection and implementation

  • Participating in disaster recovery planning

Requirements

Professional Requirements

  • A financial leader with 4+ years of experience. An energetic, forward-thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards.

  • A mix of public accounting/industry experience preferred.

  • Experience directly supervising a team of individuals.

  • A well-organized and self-directed individual who is a team player.

  • Exhibits well-developed communication skills; is clear, concise, motivating and persuasive. Is also a good listener and shows an interest in what others have to say.

  • An excellent negotiator who is experienced in contracts.

  • Expert at Excel (to build forecast model), including charts and graphs.

Personal Requirements

  • Enjoys a challenging environment with abundant opportunities to make a contribution, where no two days are the same.

  • Ability to move back and forth between detail tasks and broad strategy decisions (and everything in between), often in the same day.

  • Ability to multi-task, deal with interruptions and frequently change priorities.

  • Desire to proactively seek out and build meaningful relationships with business unit leaders to improve revenues, implement efficiency improvements, and set strategy.

  • Ability to adapt communication/presentation style to fit the relevant audience, which will vary significantly from day-to-day. This will include direct feedback regarding changes needed in this area, and the successful candidate must demonstrate a willingness to accept constructive feedback and make needed changes.

  • High sensitivity to maintaining confidential information.

  • High value on leadership by example, where no task is beneath them.

  • Understanding that individual priorities and desires take a back seat to customer needs and overall company goals.

Educational Requirements

  • BA/BS Degree in Accounting and CPA strongly desired.

Organizational Relationships

Reports to the Chairman. Manages and directs staff of 5 direct reports and interfaces with other departmental managers of the organization.

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