Chief Financial Officer

Job Description : CFO AUSTRALIA Chief Financial Officer (Global). Reporting into the Managing Director and as a key member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will assume a strategic role in the overall management and have primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial-related activities as well as the IT function including providing the vision and leadership for our Technology team designing and developing the long-term IT road map, implementing IT initiatives to ensure business success across retail, wholesale and eCommerce and providing the business a best-in-class IT support services function. Partnering closely with the Managing Director, you need to be both independent and autonomous whilst also being a team player. The CFO needs to be able to work ‘on the business’ whilst also ‘in the business’ as required. This exciting career opportunity will appeal to a talented CFO who can demonstrate extensive experience in a global, specialist retail environment with experience building and supporting the strategic plan to deliver targets and expected return on investments and capital expenditure. A talented people leader, you will have the capability to build and develop a high-performing Finance & IT team that delivers excellence across the business as well as lead projects and delivery in partnership with Channel Heads. You will also be able to deliver an Omni-channel IT experience across all channels, linking Point of Sale to our own eCommerce website. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate: · Professional accounting qualifications · In depth commercial finance experience · 10 years+ experience as FD, CFO or similar · Significant experience in the Retail sector · Experience leading the IT function · Strong business acumen · Proven people management and development experience · Extensive change management experience · Experience working for an international organization in a subsidiary business · Strong knowledge of all disciplines in Finance Location: Melbourne

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