Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Proactively manage cash flows in a leveraged environment
• Manage financial capital; communicate capital requirements/ implications of business decisions to President and BOD.
• Conduct meaningful proactive analysis to improve key business decisions focusing on management of working capital.
• Grow equity value.
• Ensures efficient capital expenditures and minimizes taxes.
2. Define the financial strategy
• Provide useful financial insights to help make better decisions about formulating and executing business strategy.
• Establish internal control processes required to manage and grow the business.
• Anticipate and correct problems in advance.
• Drive the annual budget process and the monthly reporting.
3. Drive and improve effective financial reporting
• Provide timely and accurate budgets, financial reports and analysis.
• Analysis of financial and other operating data to provide key insights into business performance and trends.
• Ensure the financial reporting system provides accurate and reliable information and report.
• Establish continuous improvement directives focused on using IT as a competitive advantage on financial reporting.
4. Ensure compliance with the legislative and regulatory requirements concerning public listing
• Involved in fund raising operations and on-going development.
• Review and ensure effective treasury function.
5. Effectively lead the finance / accounting team by hiring and retaining top-grade talent.
• Develop and coach existing team.
• Proactively replace underperformers as needed.
6. Develop and implement a risk management policy
• Ensure controls are in place..
• Develop processes and disciplines around monitoring and assessing risk in positions.
• Expand financial reporting systems to determine monthly, quarterly and annual gross profit estimates.
7. Drive effective internal and external communication interactions
• Effectively manage sponsor, bank, board of director and financial advisor relationships.
• Manage the fiduciary responsibility of the CFO.
8. Lead financial aspects of potential M&A activity
• Lead the financial evaluation of mergers and acquisition candidates.
• Structure, negotiate, and finalize purchase agreements.
• Lead systems integration efforts.
9. Any other duties as directed by the company.
