General Information

Position

CFO (m/w/d) - ad interim - mit der Option einer Festanstellung

Daily rate

By arrangement

Expenses

plus expenses

Project duration

as of now

Deployment country

Germany

Deployment city

Not published

Required availability

100 %

Industry

eCommerce

Function

Accounting & Controlling

Service

Operative vacancy

Tasks & Objectives

Tasks

Our client, a leading-edge provider of e-commerce solutions, is looking for a dynamic, high caliber CFO (m/f/d) ad interim, with the option to convert to a permanent position.  

To support the planned growth strategy in a focused manner, a strong CFO, as Managing Director (part of the “Geschäftsführung”), is needed as part of the diverse executive team. Whereby the CEO will focus on front-end (transactions) and the CFO will focus on back-end (cash-in). This role will be responsible for:

  • Leading the teams in Finance & Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Controlling, Legal and Support IT
  • Driving financial savviness across the organization, enabling, and supporting the executive team’s decisions
  • Ensuring global compliance of the business operations and anticipating and managing potential and ongoing business risks
  • Optimizing treasury processes to generate compliant margin improvements
  • Quantifying the company’s value creation roadmap and sponsoring the company wide PMO (“Value Creation Office”) to provide transparency on execution
  • Optimizing existing budgeting & forecasting, controlling, and reporting processes and outputs (internally but also externally visà-vis investor and debt providers)
  • Establish & finetune a proper Management reporting reflecting the core KPIs per division to be monitored
  • Managing banking and debt provider relationships
  • Leading M&A processes, acquisitions, and integrations of add-ons, in close cooperation with private equity owner
  • Driving margin improvements, cash optimization initiatives
  • Implementing a BI tool, setting up the required analyses and ensuring company-wide adoption
  • Playing a vital role in an anticipated exit process in the future

Personnel accountability

300 Employees

Budget accountability

50 million Euro

Requirements & Expertise

Requirements

  • Experienced CFO or Finance leader from a scaling, yet profitable software / technology company
  • Strong track record with global exposure, ideally with extensive experience in North America and Europe; German speaking would be ideal, fluency in English is a must
  • Experience in payment tech industry or treasury management industry is preferred
  • In depth understanding of global currency and tax regimes, capital flows in payment solutions and compliance
  • Track record of sustainable and profitable business growth on a global scale as well as proven ability to drive change and build / transform an organization
  • Experience in setting up and driving PMOs, here called “Value Creation Office” to ensure and monitor progress along the defined value creation roadmap
  • Demonstrated experience of bringing data-driven decision making to an organization
  • Proven background in breaking down a strategy into actionable tasks and driving an organization’s accountability during execution
  • In-depth understanding of how to form a scalable organization and a high-performance, KPI- / results-driven organizational culture
  • Outstanding leadership skills and great track record in remote management at a global scale is required – experience in forming teams across offices (and continents) and ability to energize the organization
  • Experience in M&A and post-M&A integration
  • Experience in working with PE-firms and understanding the PE value creation levers
  • Experience in selling a business as part of an exit process, potentially even IPO

Linguistic proficiency

English
Business fluent
German
Business fluent