Chief Financial Officer, VP Finance & IT

CFO Opportunity

This position requires an executive with deep experience in financial principles and business strategy development with the ability to navigate the requirements of a dynamic and complex organization. The incumbent will be involved in 'hands on' business and change management activities while providing leadership, direction and focus to ChemTreat. The incumbent must be able to work as an effective business partner with the ChemTreat President and leadership team to drive synergies / efficiencies across the organization.

The CFO is an active participant in senior management commercial strategy planning, financial planning and results, and is charged with providing concise, accurate, and timely analysis of the key business trends and financial metrics reporting/analysis.

This position has the overall responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of the financial position of ChemTreat and provides clear interpretation of the results to effectively drive meaningful improvements and ensure that all reports are accurate and timely.

The candidate should have proven experience in a large international public company.

Key Competencies

• Results oriented - has track record for delivering results, takes ownership and is accountable
• Must have had full P&L financial ownership experience with responsibility for all financial functions
• Possesses strong business acumen and learning agility
• Consistently uses sound judgment and possesses high integrity and ethics
• Has a high degree of humility and self-awareness
• Has excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills; understands the implications their actions will have in the organizational demands of a rapidly evolving company
• Is trusted by associates at all levels and operates with a high degree of transparency
• Is approachable by his/her associates and is willing to listen to thoughts and suggestions and to consider other methodologies
• Can move strategy to action and lead in a global environment
• Listens and responds to customer needs with a high sense of urgency
• Champions continuous improvement, can work across boundaries and has a "Go to Gemba" mentality
• Relentlessly attracts, engages and develops people and can aspire this in others
• Build strong, effective, and diverse teams
• Creates followership through collaboration
• Proven ability to flourish in a lean, hands-on, practical environment
• Able to dig into the details as needed while focusing on the key strategic priorities

Experience & Education

• BS or BA Degree in Finance or Accounting required; MBA Degree and/or CPA are preferred
• Substantial operational experience in increasingly responsible financial leadership positions leading to the CFO or VP Finance position in a complex, global enterprise
• Experience for full financial ownership of at least a $400M-$500M P&L
• International experience is required along with strong global business perspective while functioning in a multinational organization with multiple business units.
• Experience in the financial aspects of acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence and post-merger integration.
• Previous experience at a VP level or equivalent for a minimum of five years or more.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally 20% of the time

Leadership

• Ability to build trusting relationships with functional and regional business partners
• Coach, mentor, and support the career of your team
• The VP/CFO leads the global finance and IT organizations to ensure operations and strategy aligns with business needs
• Partner with CIO to execute digital IT strategy in the context of service delivery, customer experience optimization, and operational improvements on front/back-office innovation to help improve growth and profitability

Data and Systems

• Ownership of development and improvement of core financial systems (ERP) necessary for timely and accurate reporting of ChemTreat financials
• Partner with Commercial leadership/Operations to develop financial reporting that drives insights and timely decision making
• Provide strategy for financial data that eliminates waste in reporting and streamline financial analysis
• Continuously improve transactional closing processes from a time, accuracy and productivity perspective

Financial Analysis/Management Support

• Work closely with the President and functional leaders in conducting detailed financial and business analyses to identify potential problems, determine root causes and recommend appropriate solutions
• Develop and maintain forecasting processes that accurately predict future performance and motivate actions to ensure it hits agreed upon target
• Assist ChemTreat's financial portion of the strategic planning process, ensure that results from initiative are properly scoped, presented, tracked, and reported
• Generate the annual financial budget for ChemTreat
• Submission of accurate financial statements that are compliance with US GAAP and Veralto accounting practices
• Drive the use of the Veralto Enterprise System (VES) and continuous improvement within the Finance Organization
• Prior responsibility providing accurate, timely consolidation of global operating functions in complex organization
• Provide input for tax planning; compliance with all federal, state, and local corporate, payroll, and other applicable taxes
• Assist functional areas in identifying and carrying out business initiatives to improve profits, reduce assets, and improve efficiency
• Review and analyze all requests for capital expenditure to ensure an appropriate ROI consistent with locations' overall financial goals