Accounting Resources Looking for Chief Financial Officer at Greater St. Louis Full Time

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Executive Leadership: Contribute to high-level decision-making, provide insights, and collaborate on overall business strategy. Work with team leaders to ensure that efforts are coordinated across the organization. Foster a collaborative culture that promotes alignment toward goals.
• Team Leadership – Accounting, HR & IT – This involves recruiting, training, and developing staff professionals, setting performance metrics, providing coaching & guidance to help them succeed.
• General accounting activities – accounts payable, invoicing, accounts receivable, credit polices & compliance, collections, and sales terms & conditions.
• General finance activities – monthly preparation of financials, general ledger entries, month end close procedures, development & maintenance of annual budgets and forecasts, cash flow optimization, vendor payment terms, banking line of credit or other financing, general asset management and property management.
• Develop & maintain internal control procedures to safeguard assets and manage SGA & capital expenditures.
• Financial reporting, corporate & department dashboard reporting, forecasting, budgeting, KPI’s
• HR – Payroll, incentives, general benefits offerings /administration such as 401K, health, disability & other benefits, HR policies including vacation, health, 401K, recruiting, hiring, annual review process, compliance with laws & regulations, disciplinary activities, and all related third-party providers.
• Information Technology – IT related activities including general network infrastructure, workstations, and office equipment, associated software’s required to conduct business activities, phone systems including cell phone services, IT security strategy & execution and third-party support & service providers.
• Legal & Insurance – Procure and administer property & casualty coverage. Handle general legal issues such as customer contracts, vendor contracts or various HR legal issues.
• M&A –Lead M&A efforts, in collaboration with leadership team and 3rd party advisors including offers / letter of intent, due diligence, financing, close & integration efforts.
• Tax Planning – Work with owner advisors and corporate advisors to evaluate & implement beneficial tax strategies such as research tax credits or other tax advantageous strategies.
• Data Integrity – oversee information systems to ensure integrity of customer, vendor, product and other systems data.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Leverage data analysis and insights to inform strategies or objectives.
• Business Process Optimization: Direct general process improvement initiatives to optimize administrative or operational functions. Foster a mindset of experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Performance Evaluation: Regularly evaluating the performance of the team, analyzing key metrics, and addressing any performance gaps or issues is a critical responsibility.

REQUIREMENTS:

• CPA with MBA required.
• CFO Experience as CFO in middle market company, preferrable in B2B industrial distribution industry.
• M&A Experience – leading or involved in the negotiation, close & integration.
• HR Recruiting & Retention – Oversight of recruitment & retention strategies & efforts (in addition to general HR)
• IT / Technology – Strong IT orientation & capable of overseeing the advancement of the company’s IT roadmap.
• Travel – Approximately 25%
• Financial Acumen – Understands the meaning and implications of key financial indicators; Uses financial analysis to generate, evaluate, and act on strategic options and opportunities; Integrates quantitative and qualitative information to draw accurate conclusions
• Business Insight – Knows how businesses work and how organizations make money; Keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, with the competition, and in the marketplace; Uses knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in the market to guide actions
• Communicates Effectively – Is effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels; Attentively listens to others; Adjusts to fit the audience and the message; Provides timely and helpful information to others across the organization; Encourages the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions
• Manages Complexity – Asks the right questions to accurately analyze the situation; Acquires data from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems; Uncovers root causes to difficult problems; Evaluates pros and cons, risks, and benefits of different solution options
• Decision Quality – Makes sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information; Relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions; Considers all relevant factors and uses appropriate decision-making criteria and principles; Recognizes when a quick 80% solution will suffice
• Ensures Accountability – Follows through on commitments and makes sure others do the same; Acts with a clear sense of ownership; Takes personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and failures; Establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results; Designs feedback loops into work
• Tech Savvy – Anticipates the impact of emerging technologies and adjusts; Scans the environment for new technical skills, knowledge, or capabilities that can benefit business performance; Rejects low-impact or fad technologies; Readily learns and adopts new technologies