Gabriel & Co. Looking for Chief Financial Officer at New York, United States Full Time

About the company:

Gabriel & Co. is a luxury fine jewelry and bridal design house headquartered in New York City with an expanding global footprint. The company is over 700 associates strong, with offices in the United States, China, India, Thailand, Lebanon, and Turkey. Founded in 1989, family-owned and operated; the company has since evolved into an award-winning brand and industry leader.

Combining bold, visionary thinking, cutting-edge technology, and extensive historical industry knowledge, Gabriel & Co. is focused on both customer and retailer experience.

With retailers nationwide and a strong E-Commerce platform, the company’s reach extends to all audiences. Gabriel was voted #1 Preferred Jewelry Brand 6 years in a row by Industry publication InStore Magazine.

The story of Gabriel & Co. is one of passion and integrity, crafting unique and personal pieces that enhance and celebrate the beauty in every occasion and achievement.

For more details about the organization, please refer to the below links:

https://www.gabrielny.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/gabriel-co/about

Job Description Position: Chief Financial Officer

Company: Gabriel & Co

Work Location: New York (On-site)

Business Vertical: Finance

Function/Department: Finance

Position Objective:

As the highest-ranking financial professional in an organization, the CFO will be responsible for the fiscal health of the business in the US, Chian Thailand and India Responsibilities include, but not limited to, developing a finance strategy, building a top-notch finance and accounting team, ensuring revenues and expenses stay in balance, overseeing FP&A and fostering cross functional collaboration with department heads and management on business strategy and technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop finance strategy for the organization and ensure its alignment with business strategy. Refine accounting policies, finance processes and systems, and ensure their compatibility to business.
• Oversee the global finance team, ensuring their alignment with business goals and values. Develop a dynamic finance function in NY to respond to the needs of a fast-moving organization.
• Make recommendations for cost reduction and/or profit improvement.
• Automate processes and manage major system implementation and upgrade.
• Handle P&L responsibility, and taxation and provides legal support and insurance coverage. Set up performance measures and executive dashboard.
• Manage the annual cost centre budgetary process, product and activity-based costing. Monitor working capital, including maintaining minimum cash threshold to meet operating needs.
• Oversee a FSS centre, improve its operational efficiency and identify more offshoring opportunities.
• Develop, SLAs/KPIs evaluation, and enable career growth of the finance team.

Education, experience, and skills required:

• Qualified CPA with 20+ years of experience in public accounting and in private industry. Experience in both large corporate (US Multinational) and medium size private enterprises preferred.
• Experience with Big 4 is considered a plus.
• Must have experience in manufacturing domain including inventory management, payroll, tax planning and compliance treasury, risk management, legal, credit, and collection. Good experience in US GAAP and in leading global finance teams in leading global intercompany.
• Should have hands on experience in cost accounting, global taxation, and M&A Exposure to SAP or Oracle is a must.MS Navision is preferred. Need to have handled an upgrade.
• Experience in automation of processes, RPA, finance tools etc. will be an added advantage.

Behavioral attributes:

• A proven self-directed leader with excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Maintain high ethical standards and an inherent desire to integrity in financial reporting.
• Manage and coach teams of culturally diverse finance professionals across global locations.
• Present a dynamic personality and attitude with strong influential skills and energy to drive the team.
• Demonstrate passion for increasing efficiencies and implementing best practices.
• Should be business savvy and conceptually strong.
• Strong ability to organize and prioritize workloads to ensure on-time completion of tasks.