Managing Director & CFO
Confidential client
Managing Director & CFO
We are seeking an experienced Managing Director with CFO responsibilities who can professionalize the financial structures of a rapidly growing plant engineering company and scale the internal organization for productive growth. The position involves operational leadership of finance, controlling, HR, as well as responsibility for procurement and production in an international production environment.
Your responsibilities
- Overall responsibility for finance, controlling, HR, IT, procurement, and production at three locations.
- Regular presence and operational leadership at the production sites.
- Expansion and professionalization of financial structures.
- Development and management of operational and financial KPI systems.
- Improvement of industrial performance through lean management measures.
- Value stream optimization and reduction of lead times in the plants.
- Implementation of shop floor management and development of a KPI culture.
- Active management of working capital to increase cash conversion.
- Medium-term introduction and implementation of a modern ERP system.
- Optimization of the order-to-cash process.
- Integration of acquisitions, particularly in finance, production, and supply chain.
- Management of operational KPIs and reporting to the financial investor.
Your profile
- Several years of leadership experience as CFO in project-driven production companies.
- Experience in international multi-site operations with variant manufacturing.
- Knowledge and experience in lean management and operational excellence.
- Proficiency with value stream optimization, shop floor management, and KPI methods.
- Pragmatic, entrepreneurial work style with decisiveness.
- Experience in change management and in developing structures and processes.
- Experience in leadership and collaboration in international production environments.
- Success in company transformations, including integration of acquisitions.
- Experience in working with private equity investors.
- Fluent in German and English.
- Experience in Austria and Eastern Europe is advantageous.
Benefits
- Leadership on equal footing with the founder and managing director.
- Collaboration with experienced private equity investor.
- Opportunity for participation in the company's success.
- Creative freedom in a dynamic entrepreneurial position.
- Responsibility for multiple production sites in Eastern Europe and Germany.
- Direct impact on organization and growth.
- Involvement in the development and scaling of financial and production structures.
- Support and integration of further company acquisitions.
- Active participation in the ERP implementation process.
- Long-term perspective in an organically growing environment.
- Versatile leadership and transformation role with strategic influence.
About the company
The company advertising the position operates in the field of Mechanical and Plant Engineering and is seeking to strengthen its team at the Salzburg location.
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