Bubendorf, Basel-Country, Switzerland
PROFILE • An experienced CFO/financial executive with a proven record of delivering exceptional financial performance through the creation and ongoing development of cross-functional teams • Familiar with executives in domestic and international environments • Profound knowledge in the manufacturing industry (tobacco) including the entire value chain as well as luxury goods, fast-moving consumer goods, wholesale, logistics and auditing • Core competencies: controlling, group accounting/consolidation, pricing, M&A, restructuring, project management, tax compliance, budgeting and strategic planning • Goal-oriented leadership personality with a strong passion to motivate a team, combined with appropriate development and training programs, including achievable commitments • Engagement, joined-up and analytical thinking, hands-on mentality, independent and solution-oriented work, discrete personality as well as a team player KEY SKILLS • Employee development • Short- and long-term (strategic) financial planning • Due diligences and company valuations • Monthly & Year-end group reporting including reporting and forecasting to CEO and Board of Directors • Tax optimisation and Transfer Pricing compliance • Many years of practical application of Swiss GAAP FER, good knowledge of IFRS • SAP FI/CO including customizing experience • Main contact person for tax & legal consultants and auditors • A thorough knowledge of consolidation • Decision support with KPI management and forward looking proposals on business opportunities, optimization, cost reduction • Performance monitoring: full transparency on performance versus targets • Safeguard that investments build shareholder value • Indispensable finance business partner to all business units and internal stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Procurement, HR-Department) • Leading of strategic M&A (purchases, sales and merger of companies) and tax projects like the implementation of a new holding structure