VP Finance

at  Marmon Foodservice Technologies Europe GmbH

Marmon Foodservice Technologies Europe GmbH
Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we’re committed to attracting and retaining top talent.
Responsible for all financial operations including accounting, credit and collection, banking, and cash flow for a group.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Marmon Foodservice Technologies is seeking an experienced Vice President of Finance that will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning for a $200 million multi-manufacturing operation. This position will provide expert financial analytics, guidance, and strategic support for all areas of the company being supported. This role will also ensure adequacy of internal controls, IT policy, and provide advice to all levels of management. As a vital member of the senior leadership team, the VP of Finance will be responsible for properly informing the business on key financial metrics and partnering with senior leaders and business unit managers to advise on sustainable growth strategies. The EMEA leadership team is drawn from talent across the EMEA region and this role will be a key member of the team, reporting to the President of MFT EMEA.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrable experience in a commensurate leadership role within a manufacturing, distribution, supply chain or related environment.
• MBA, graduate, or Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or other relevant field.
• Financial Acumen: Fully conversant with the P& L and budget numbers and able to succinctly articulate cause and resolution. Understands financial models and has experience with complex financial analysis across a variety of businesses. Intuitively understands which metrics are applicable to a given business or decision. Able to quickly identify patterns and anomalies in financial information. Identifies issues early and creates credible action plans to avoid anticipated issues.
• Trustworthy: Truthful and honorable under all circumstances while flawlessly faithful to mission, vision and values. Follows through on commitments. Communicates transparently, even in the face of criticism. Inspires a high-trust environment.
• High Integrity: Never fails to make decisions in the long-term best interest of the company. Embodies a consistent ‘the buck stops’ here mentality.
• Strong Work Ethics: Recognizes situations that warrant initiative and moves forward without hesitation. Acts as a role model for healthy work/life balance where all demands are met.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrates a high level of strategic planning and execution supported by long-term performance above market. Has experience translating market trends, competitive activity, technology advancements and customer needs into actionable plans that provide competitive advantage (right to win) for the organization.
• Inspirational: Clearly communicates a vision and clear sense of purpose that others want to follow. An ability to command engaged attention and is consistently encouraging. Creates an enthusiastic buy-in to strategies and initiatives. Moves others to set high standards for themselves and their teams.
• Courageous: Challenges current thinking to understand new possibilities. Willing to recommend unpopular decisions and take unwavering action to achieve results.
• Communicative: Extraordinarily skilled when speaking, writing, and presenting. Sets a standard for listening, and coaches others to do the same.
• Team Builder: Creates superior level of team engagement, evident in open discussions and diversity of thought. Consistently aligns team on strategic priorities, setting expectations and goals, actively rooting out potential cross-functional conflicts.
• Multicultural: Able to work across many cultures and in many different business environments across EMEA. Capable of engaging, leading and inspiring teams composed of staff from different regions and backgrounds.
• Innovation: Develops and enables new solutions, processes and technologies to sustain the business and improve competitive advantage.
• Risk Management: Manages risk effectively while balancing short, mid, and long-term opportunities. Understands all strategic risks relevant to the business and encourages the use of experts in evaluating those risks. Very good analytical skills including cost/benefit analysis, and works well in high stress and uncertain situations.
  Working Conditions: Work is performed largely in a hybrid-office and manufacturing environment. Hours of work will generally be during regular business hours with at least 40 hours a week but may vary according to special projects, deadlines or other concerns.
  Significant travel, at least 1 week per month, to attend meetings and business locations throughout Europe.
  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  Acknowledgement: This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed by employee assigned to this position. It does not state or imply that these are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to the job. The employee may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by management. All requirements are subject to change over time and to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.
  Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law

• Serve on the organization’s leadership team, helping to develop and execute multi-year business plans and strategies to foster sustainable growth.
• Provide financial analysis and decision-making support to the President, Leadership Team and broader organization.
• Mentor and coach direct reports, delegating work streams effectively and holding team members to a high standard of excellence and accountability.
• Model ingenuity in leading the evaluation and development of cost-benefit analyses and efficient systems and processes to advance the organization.
• Lead the design and assessment of financial strategy and performance as it relates to managing against the annual budget and long-term goals while fostering organizational effectiveness and sustainability.
• Lead the timely and accurate development of budgets, financial reports, and models that will assist the President, Leadership Team, and other senior managers in making informed strategy, resource allocation and investment decisions.
• Lead the EMEA IT team to maintain and develop IT systems and procedures to leverage the opportunities presented by Information Technology, whilst ensuring the security and stability of the systems the business employs.
• Develop and implement long-term strategies for the current ERP systems and support the roll out of the group Infor LN systems in alignment with the group roll-out plan.
• Review, manage and establish as needed, internal systems, controls, processes, and procedures to ensure the integrity, accuracy, compliance, and usefulness of financial information and reporting.
• Oversee successful completion of annual audits, filings and other mandated reporting for the organization.
• Oversee day-to-day finance and accounting operations including general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, prepaid, payroll processing, monthly reconciliation and monthly, quarterly and year-end closing.
• Coordinate matters with legal counsel, including contracts, intellectual property, grant agreements, and other matters as appropriate.
• Partner with President and Leadership Team to foster organization, culture and values focused on equity, learning and sustainable growth.
• Perform and consolidate all Marmon Corporate and Foodservice Group request in a timely manner as required.
• Understanding the complexities of multiple European entities in multiple jurisdictions and work to find efficiencies in the legal and organizational structure of the business.
• Performance of relevant tasks and duties which have not been explicitly listed above.