Financial Director

The Finance Director is responsible for the business unit FlexiForce EMEA and provides timely and accurate delivery of financial and commercial reports, KPI's and analysis. You will have a straight line General Manager FlexiForce EMEA and a dotted line to CFO SDC.

Client Details

FlexiForce, established in 1980, is specialized in offering hardware parts, automation, panels and hardware systems for residential (garage) and industrial overhead doors. We believe in the market opportunities of our worldwide customers: independent, often local or regional, door producers.

FlexiForce products and services support door companies in offering competitive door solutions. Our core competences lie not only in the design and quality of the products and systems, but even more in understanding the need for an efficient supply chain of products.

Meaning to have each hinge, hardware set, industrial door opener and more, available within optimal lead-time and transport distance. This is facilitated through our production and warehouse facilities in Canada, United States of America, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Poland and France. The headquarters is based in Barneveld, The Netherlands.

Description

• Responsible to prepare the Management reports for the commercial activities in the business unit.
• Takes a leading role to discuss all reporting matters for the Business Unit (BU) and the local BU companies (Country Managers and the local finance teams).
• Responsible to organize and provide guidance for preparation of the plans, budgets and forecasts for the BU entities.
• Performs the analysis of the monthly results and support the BU entities (country managers and the local finance teams) to prepare the Business reviews/Board Meetings. Analyses include review of the monthly financial reports; KPI's and monitor the BU entities performance against plans/forecasts. Report on major deviations to the BU director.
• Supports the entities with relevant controlling activities, challenge the monthly results and support to create action plans for improvement.
• Identifies business reporting requirements, drive the businesses to standardize reports and reporting solutions.
• Participates in projects including preparing and review of business cases (investments, opening new locations, acquisitions etcetera).
• Supports the business in order to drive the business forward and reach the financial objectives set
• Responsible to review compliance to local reporting legislation (preparing statutory accounts, timely submit tax returns and other legislation).
• Responsible to check that the commercial entities in the BU are compliant to the guidelines as defined by ASSA ABLOY.

Profile

• Completed Master level education in the field of Business Control, Business Economics, Business Management or similar.
• Proven experience in a similar role preferably in an international organization. Key focus is business controlling, seeing trends and find underlying reasons. Proactively drive improvements and deviation measurements and activities.
• Excellent written and spoken skills in English and Dutch.
• Willingness to travel ~ 15% and work in international setting.
• Understand the importance of meeting deadlines and thrives in a challenging international environment.
• Team player with ability to influence key individuals at multiple levels of the organization through effective verbal and written communication.
• Problem solver with the ability to prioritize workloads.

Job Offer

• Competitive salary package ( gross annual salary + bonusscheme)
• 38,25 hour workweek
• Working from home policy
• 30 holidays
• Company creditcard