What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Financial Officer position at CAPTEK Softgel International?
Summary
The Chief Financial Officer leads the company’s financial, accounting, treasury, tax, and planning functions, as well as the IT function. The CFO interacts regularly with the Board of Directors.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Partner closely with the CEO, the Board and the management team to develop and implement transformational strategies for growth and cost management
- Contribute to the successof the business by understanding the industry, customers, products, and manufacturing / operations
- Act as a thought leader by providing analytical insight and perspective
- Monitor and drive performance and provide financial oversight
- Partner with operations to ensure solid understanding of the manufacturing metrics and financials.
- Corporate finance; Play a leading role in managing the company’s financialstructure and balance sheet. Interface with financial institutions, in particular debt lenders
- Supervise the preparation of timely and accurate financial reports, tax filings, and analyses of performance, variance, and cash flow. Ensure the fiscal integrity of the company’s business by enhancing and managing accounting systems and controls
- Provide organizational leadership across general ledger accounting, cost accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, income tax, treasury, and financial analysis
- Support development of the strategic planning process, including capital and operating budgets
- Establish financial goals and monitor and analyze performance against these objectives.
- Develop high quality financial analysis to provide context and insight to decision makers across the company
- Provide strong leadership in recruiting, training, and developing top quality financial talent to ensure the finance organization’s performance and productivity. Instill a culture that emphasizes accountability and transparency
- Help spearhead the effort to optimize enterprise planning, organizational design,process improvement, supply chain and logistics processes
- Bring ideas for best practices to improve capacityand operational efficiencies out of the entire manufacturing and operations processes
- Provide strategicfinancial reporting to help with forecasting and planning out the Company’s operations to scale for future growth
- Provide insight and analysis which can help continually improve operating results, including gross margin improvement, speed and capacity capabilities, production and quality metrics, efficiencies in all areas of supply chain and overall profit improvement
- Take advantage of business and market opportunities
- Provide analytical support to enable fact-based decision making
Education / Experience :
An undergraduate degree is required with MBA and CPA credentials being preferred.
Work Environment :
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, fumes, or airborne particles and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands :
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. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, hear, use hand dexterity, and occasionally stoop and kneel.
