Vice President Finance

BUGATCHI; Montreal; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

BUGATCHI is seeking a Vice President of Finance to oversee financial operations and strategic planning pivotal for the company's growth. The successful candidate will manage financial integrity, support executive decision-making, and foster a culture of financial excellence within the organization.

Qualifications

• Significant operational and financial planning experience in a global consumer products environment.
• Experience with raising and managing debt and equity financing.
• Strong understanding of apparel wholesale and direct-to-consumer operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial operations and strategic planning.
• Actively manage costs and propose business streamlining ideas.
• Lead budgeting processes and ensure compliance with credit terms.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Cost management

Financial reporting

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in finance, accounting or related field

Tools

ERP reporting systems

Job description

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Vice President, Finance

The Vice President, Finance will be critical to driving BUGATCHI’s overall growth and success by overseeing financial operations, strategic planning, and fostering a culture of financial excellence. Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President, Finance will be an integral part of the senior leadership team. The role will include, but is not limited to:

Requirements:

• Managing the integrity of the company’s financial and budgetary controls and reporting systems, for ensuring adequate financial flexibility to execute the company’s operating and strategic plans, and for informing executive decision-making.
• Oversee the functions of controllership, financial reporting, financial planning & analysis , and taxation.
• Work with the executive team to establish reliable financial and accounting systems and consistent policies to generate accurate, timely data, support financial analysis, and enable effective financial decision making, planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Be a strategic partner to the executive team in deeply understanding the business, key drivers and goals.
• Build processes and systems to support current and growing business as well as create KPIs and dashboards for the executive team and Board to better assess and manage the business.
• Actively manage costs in the organization and propose ideas on how to streamline the business.
• Lead the senior leadership team’s collaborative strategic planning and budgeting process (e.g., Annual Operating Plan and Long-Range Plan) to ensure that BUGATCHI sets and achieves its goals and objectives.
• Build profitability analysis and P&L by channel to include integrating operational KPIs – e.g., DTC KPIs, retail sell-thru, etc.
• Build profitability analysis and P&L by product and integrate with product, planning and merchandising functional metrics and levers (e.g., # of styles, unique material IDs, etc.).
• Design and build a financial planning and analysis to partner across business functions by providing analytical support and management reporting to support on budget planning, forecasting and long-range planning.
• Oversee lender relationships and ensure continuous compliance with credit terms.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in finance, accounting or related field.
• Significant operational and financial planning experience with equivalent cross-functional responsibilities within a global consumer products environment (ideally from fashion) with a complex global supply chain and sourced manufacturing.
• Experience with raising and managing debt and equity financing.
• Be a strategic thinker who understands the business ramifications of financial decisions in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
• Success building strong operating processes and financial planning with less sophisticated infrastructure and systems and an eagerness to “roll up your sleeves”, fix problems, and create better operating models, both by improving processes and moving to more sophisticated systems.
• Possess in-depth knowledge of successful finance and operations strategies and systems to assure tight controls and sound financial reporting, business planning, and forecasting.
• Strong record in cost and expense management and in improving a company’s overall profitability.
• Experience optimizing talent and workforce management with the ability to work across the organization, interacting with leaders and support staff alike.
• A high level of learning agility with the ability to translate conceptual strategies into easily understood execution plans and change management.
• Strong understanding of and experience with ERP reporting systems.
• Strong communication, interpersonal & management skills including staff management, development, delegation and multitasking.
• Deep understanding of apparel wholesale and direct-to-consumer operations and will be proactive in identifying and communicating foreseen impacts of operational decisions and initiatives.

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada. Due to the large number of applications, BUGATCHI will only be able to respond directly to those candidates that are viable for the position. We sincerely thank you for your interest in joining BUGATCHI.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Business Development

• Industries

  Retail Apparel and Fashion

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