GRAITEC GROUP Looking for Vice President of Finance – North America at United States Full Time

GRAITEC Group Company is a global software editor leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions and helping its architectural, engineering, construction, and manufacturing customers to digitize and industrialize their processes to improve performance and build a sustainable tomorrow.

Ambitious and fast-growing environment: We see ourselves as a 30-year-old startup, having doubled our revenue in the last 3 years thanks to both organic and inorganic growth and targeting 500m€ revenue in 2024 (join us to make it happen).

We strongly believe that this growth will continue since the market is only at the beginning of its digitization.

Experts & Talents with strong culture: Our team is made of more than 700 outstanding talents with a strong management team to execute our mission.

A true international group: Graitec serves more than 200,000 customers worldwide with over 50 offices in 13 countries, enabling us to meet our customer needs around the globe.

A market leader: We are one of the largest AUTODESK Platinum Partners and the only one operating at a worldwide scale with an equal split of business between Europe and North America, enabling Autodesk solutions thanks to our own GRAITEC Software.

Strong products serving the construction & manufacturing industries: Through Autodesk products Add-ons like PowerPack to more complex solutions to enable simulation, fabrication & management of our customers projects, GRAITEC is proud of its 150+ developers innovating each day to accelerate our customers performance.

About The Team Hiring

• Our Team is responsible for the processing of financial transactions; We are the gatekeeper of the Audited Annual Financial Statements.
• We are in charge of Cash Management (A/P, A/R, etc.) in compliance with Corporate Group Policies and local regulations. We maintain a low DSO.
• We report monthly to the Group respecting the deadlines and perform analysis to explain the results vs budget.
• We support the local business and work with all the functions (Sales, Order Operations, Tech, etc.). Our role is to help the EVP of North America and functional senior leadership to drive the business with KPI definitions for them to make the best decisions to grow and achieve the region’s target.

Overview

• The VP of Finance is in charge of the Finance & Order Operations functions in North America. They must ensure compliance with local rules and regulations. They must report to the Group respecting the Group Corporate Policies and deadlines.
• They are a Business Partner to the EVP NAMER. and are responsible for developing and directing the company’s analytical, financial plans and policies.
• The VP of Finance also reports on metrics to optimize our growth by understanding where efficiencies exist to maximize scalability throughout the year.
• Create a reliable cash flow projection process and reporting structure that includes a minimum cash threshold to meet operational needs.
• Routinely review revenue cycle metrics to identify and address issues affecting overall performance proactively.
• Partner with senior leaders to ensure the company hits and/or exceeds its revenue targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the Finance & Oper Operations Teams
• Reporting and control analysis in a timely manner
• Cash Flow Management
• Year-end Financial Statements
• Bank relationships.
• Auditor relationships
• Finance related Vendors relationships.
• Processes improvement and automatization
• Contract management: insurance/rent/ car rent according to the Group policy
• Relationships with Corporate Finance Team and Regional Leadership team
• Oversee legal tasks with the help of the legal advisor: shareholder’s meeting/ merge….
• Budget planning and forecasting
• Implementation of new Information Systems
• Segregation of tasks mainly for payments
• Regional budget gatekeeper
• Compliance with Company policies & local regulations
• FP&A for the Region
• Management of Real Estate in the Region
• Finance interlocutor for Mergers and Acquisitions in the Region

Key Performance Indicators:

• Gross Margin, OPEX, EBITDA, DSO optimization
• Team Management: clarity, growth, One Graitec
• Annual Audited Financial Statements with no reserve
• Meeting monthly reporting deadlines
• Consistency with Business Extract
• Compliance to GRAITEC internal management rules and external regulations

People Manager Expectations:

At Graitec, the team is our first asset, and our people managers then have high expectations regarding our employees’ experience. As such, they are accountable for:

Fostering a One Graitec Environment:

• Role model professionalism, integrity, and trust in anything you do so you can expect that from your team.
• Create an inclusive team experience where everybody feels respected and valued for who they are and what they bring to the team and the company.
• Lead the team towards curiosity, positive energy, care, and empathy for each other across teams, functions, and countries.
• Intentionally foster collaboration across individuals, teams, and business units to achieve more together.

Growing Talents:

• Non-stop hiring – constantly identifying, meeting, and assessing talents to fulfill todays and tomorrow’s needs.
• Attract talents externally and internally that will contribute to the team achieving more.
• Ongoing focus on each team member’s development enabling the team to continuously learn & grow.
• Listen to aspirations and retain talents in a highly competitive market. I.e. non-stop re-hiring your team.

Driving Clarity:

• Enable the team to understand the company priorities and understand how each contributes to it.
• Deliver clear roadmap and ongoing feedback to team members so they ongoing understand where they stand individually and all together.
• Coach the team to leverage resources and experts available to them to outperform business results together

Responsibilities

• 20 years of experience as a minimum, with at least 10 years in international companies with complex / matrixial organization
• Having been a Finance Executive with full finance scope for a region or at least for multiple countries at the same time & demonstrated capabilities to handle the associated complexity.
• Excellent understanding of the North American & US financial regulations.
• Minimum 5 years experience managing remote & large team(s)
• Strong FP&A skills.

Qualifications

• Adaptability, autonomy, clarity in communication, collaborating effectively, driving for results, positive energy
• Fluent English Speaking is required for all roles at Graitec as enabling the team to collaborate worldwide
• Accounting qualification

Interview Process

• Screening & get to know discussion with John, Talent Acquisition Partner
• Screening with CFO, VP of Finance Group or EVP of North America
• Final interview