Chief Financial Officer

Job Description : CFO HOLLAND For this global market leader in the food industry, we are looking for a proactive CFO with guts, strong communication skills and extensive experience in a (fast growing) food-related production environment. St. Paul is a specialized producer of high-quality and functional cheese solutions in the food industry worldwide. The company was started in 1985 by brother and sister Dieter and Margo Kuijl. Entrepreneurship is what drives St. Paul; quality is always the starting point. St. Paul is result-oriented, innovative, solution-oriented and goal-oriented. Together with the CEO/DGA and the management team, the CFO sets the company's course and ensures that the strategic goals are actually achieved. The CFO has a statutory responsibility. An important goal for the coming period is to further optimize the structure and performance of the organization. Investments are being made in revenue growth as well as in further automation, modernization and digitization of the organization. The CFO must ensure that the strategic projects have a head and tail and are closely monitored. He/she must also have the flexibility and speed of thinking and acting that is required within a growing organization. The company assumes organic growth, but certainly does not rule out (international) acquisitions in the near future, the CFO will have to play an active role in this; • Proverbial right hand, financial conscience and 'sparring partner' of the CEO/DGA and at the same time also a partner for the business; • Primary responsible for Finance, IT and Human Resources. The finance team consists of 4 people, HR of 2 people and IT is currently outsourced. • Responsible for the complete financial administration within the Group (the Netherlands and Belgium) and the monthly consolidation, accounting, legal and tax issues within the organization including contact with the relevant external advisors; • Primarily responsible for financing, cash management or treasury, as well as contacts with external financial relations and acts proactively to improve these; • Cash flow management, management of cash flows and ensuring optimal working capital management • Provides internal and external reports; financially as well as operationally; • Supports the strategy and business plans with relevant analyzes and the calculation of plans and business cases; • Further develops Business Control and Business Intelligence together with the Finance team; • Leads a process of selection and implementation for a new ERP solution; • Takes the initiative in making analyzes and reports that contribute to improving insight into the figures and the performance of the company; • Sustainability (ESG), fleet management, housing, insurance, salaries and pensions are also part of the CFO's portfolio; • Matching the mission, core values ??and 10 Golden Rules of St. Paul; • Firm personality with sufficient critical skills and caliber to contradict CEO/DGA if necessary; • Honest, transparent, straightforward and fair, with a high awareness of norms and values ??and strong in systematic working; • Sober, no-nonsense attitude and pragmatic; • Is driven and sufficiently 'hands-on', not afraid to roll up his sleeves and put his feet in the clay; • Is highly analytically developed and can think conceptually; • Has sufficient eye for detail and is able to distinguish between main and side issues and to maintain an overview; • Autonomous, decisive and enterprising. Takes initiative and looks for ways to add value to the organization. Looks beyond the Finance team and its own primary responsibilities; • Is communicative, dares to take a position, knows how to convince people without overlooking valuable input from others; • Is able to shed new light on the matter based on facts and analyses, in order to contribute to better decision-making; • As a leader, he pays attention to the development and development of the employees. • Extensive work experience as Finance professional (20 years +), preferably also as final responsible Financial Director or CFO in a small - mid sized environment, combination of both experience in a trade organization and in a production environment is an advantage; • Experience working with and for a DGA in a family business is an advantage, as well as experience with acquisition processes and post-acquisition integration; • Extensive experience in preparing and improving financial (monthly, quarterly, annual) reports, budgets, estimates, multi-year budgets and forecasts, as well as in making financial analyses, drawing up business cases and investment and financing proposals; • Strongly developed Business Control experience, including Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the entire organization, both on financial economic performance and on operational processes and quality; • Experience with the selection and implementation of ERP and Accounting software.

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