World Health Labs Looking for Global Head of Finance at United States Full Time

About World Health Labs/ Company Profile

World Health Labs is a young, ambitious company who have experienced rapid growth. The business pivoted 22 months ago and annual revenues have reached $80MM++ USD through providing domestic and international staffing services to the healthcare sector in Canada and the US. The ambition is to expand the service both deeper and wider by both expanding geographically and into new industries in addition to healthcare.

The rapid rate of growth has been remarkable – and ambitions to grow further are significant – but it is recognised that there is a need to invest in financial systems and processes in order to build a stable foundation and prepare the business for further sustainable growth.

This position will sit in the Global Group / HoldCo with the CEO, Strategy Operations Lead and Potentially the Global HR Lead and other prospective Global Team Members and will have finance leads from a number of portfolio companies reporting into them.

Objectives of this Role

• Provide strategic recommendations to the CEO and Global Executive Team
• Provide leadership, direction and management of the finance and accounting team. Potentially manage / influence other divisions within portfolio companies.
• Support the process of effective business planning at Group and Business Unit level
• Provide commercial insight and leadership across the Group in order to set business targets and ensure the business exceeds its business plan targets
• Build effective working relationships with all internal stakeholders and external partners
• Take accountability for ensuring an effective governance, compliance and risk framework is in place across the organisation
• Ensure that the group and all Business Units adhere to financial reporting requirements in line with the laws and regulations of each country of operation
• Provide support in all aspects of M&A activity
• Oversee finance leads in each portfolio company

Reporting Structure

This role will report to the Global CEO

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the finance and accounting function is fit for purpose in the processes and systems it operates and also in the structure of the teams and quality of the people it employs
• Manage the process for financial budgeting, forecasting, and oversee the timely preparation of financial reporting at Group, Business Unit, and team level
• Provide business performance reporting tools to enable effective monitoring and corrective action to take place
• Ensure that accounts receivable and accounts payable are both managed effectively
• Ensure that technology is utilised to good effect in all aspects of the business to drive accuracy, efficiency and scalability
• Proactivity: Build the Finance Function for 5x growth over the next five years

Qualification & Experience

• Five or more years of experience in C-Suite equivalent leadership roles in a profitable company with minimum $50 Million USD in revenue.
• Excellent leadership skills, with steadfast resolve and unquestionable personal and corporate integrity
• Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills
• Robust understanding of advanced accounting and regulatory issues in Canada, Barbados, US and UK
• Significant experience in negotiations
• Experience in all aspects of M&A
• Demonstrable expertise in financial and accounting system selection, design and implementation
• Have a network of Finance and Accounting professionals who have worked for you before and are interested in following you to prospective new opportunities such as our portfolio companies.
• Extremely hard working and willing to work as much as is required to meet company demands.

Skill and Experience Nice to Have:

• Transfer pricing and international / offshore
• Operations experience
• Staffing company experience
• Healthcare experience
• Acquisition Sourcing and Integration Experience
• Entrepreneurial / high growth; have worked in a company that grew rapidly during your tenure

Note: Evening and weekend availability will be required from time to time. You may need to match the timezone which the CEO is working in which typically ranges from AST to Central European time. You may be required to be in regional offices from time to time. The Company has / is in the process of opening offices in Cincinatti, Ohio; the United Kingdom and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company operates from additional satellite offices from time to time in addition to virtual.

Compensation

• Market competitive base salary and significant incentive opportunities.