Chief Financial Officer

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving financial excellence and organizational growth? We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our leadership team. As the CFO, you will play a crucial role providing strategic direction, and ensuring the integrity of our financial operations.

Financial Strategy and Planning:

• Developing financial strategies aligned with the company’s goals.
• Overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Evaluating investment opportunities and risk management.

Financial Reporting and Analysis:

• Preparing accurate financial statements and reports.
• Analyzing financial data to provide insights and recommendations.
• Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.

Treasury and Cash Management:

• Managing liquidity, cash flow, and working capital.
• Handling banking relationships and optimizing financing options.
• Monitoring investments and debt.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A):

• Assessing potential acquisitions and conducting due diligence.
• Negotiating deal terms and integrating acquired companies.
• Evaluating synergies and financial impact.

Risk Management and Compliance:

• Implementing internal controls and risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensuring compliance with legal, tax, and regulatory requirements.
• Safeguarding company assets.

Leadership and Team Management:

• Leading the global finance team and fostering a collaborative environment.
• Providing strategic guidance to executives and the board.

Requirements

• Has proven experience operating as Chief Financial Officer in a professional, multinational corporate environment in the technology / digital industry.
• A financial leader with full suite of finance skills and experiences in a global (multi-country) context - ideally exposure in M&A, fund raising, investor relations.
• Solid knowledge of accounting principles in US and EMEA (IFRS).
• Experienced in a growing, competitive market / business environment with high complexity where the CFO is a strong, proactive business partner, able to pivot quickly and embrace change.
• Skilled in providing hands-on, metrics-driven financial leadership to help accelerate growth and profitability and provide the executive team with operational insight to better manage the business.
• Experienced in ensuring scalable and efficient processes, procedures and systems that provide the business optionality while maintaining a sound controls environment.
• Ability to balance between the different stakeholders’ interest, convincing and assertive speaking partner.
• Confident, expressive and inclusive leader who can create an inspiring and engaging working environment, develop internal and external relationships at all levels of the organization.

Education

• A master’s degree is a must from a renowned institution, MBA and other postgraduate programs are valued
• Proficiency in English

Skills and Competencies

• Self-starter, proactive, initiative driven thinker.
• High mental agility, learning agility, growth and learning potential.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to disseminate information accurately and quickly, able to joggle multiple priorities.
• Intellectually highly capable.
• Able to persuade and motivate others, capable of setting up and maintaining fair, honest relations.
• Team focused, able to create positive and collaborative work environment and work with different cultures.
• Aligns execution, highly collaborative, sharing and communicates effectively.
• Solid stakeholder management skills.
• Has courage, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, can-do attitude solving issues
• Openness to change, creative, innovative.
• Motivated, performance driven, move things forward.
• Unquestioned personal and business integrity, credibility and character.
• Thrives working with high complexity, can handle ambiguity.