EMEA Finance Director: Transformation & CoE Lead

Finatal; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Finatal, partnering with a leading international PE-backed industrial group, seeks a European Finance Director/EMEA CFO to transform the European finance function and establish a Finance Centre of Excellence. You will lead across multiple countries and work closely with the Group CFO.

You will balance strategic finance leadership with hands-on control, reporting, systems, and post-merger integration, while on-site engagement with plant leadership and operations across Europe.

Qualifications

• Significant finance leadership in industrial/manufacturing environments.
• Proven multi-country European finance leadership experience.
• Strong finance transformation capability with process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the European finance organisation across a multi-country, multi-site manufacturing environment
• Assess and restructure the existing finance organisation, addressing capability gaps and establishing clear ownership and accountability
• Build and establish a Finance Centre of Excellence, creating a scalable centralised finance structure
• Strengthen financial controls, reporting quality, data integrity and governance across the European businesses
• Take ownership of finance transformation across processes, systems, automation and reporting infrastructure
• Improve inventory reporting and controls, ensuring stronger alignment between financial records and physical plant operations
• Build reliable financial and operational data to improve management insight and support commercial and operational decision-making
• Partner closely with plant leadership, spending significant time on-site to understand operational issues and implement practical solutions
• Drive the digitisation and automation of manual finance processes, improving efficiency, consistency and visibility across the region
• Support the integration and standardisation of legacy and acquired businesses, establishing scalable structures for future M&A and post-merger integration activity
• Provide financial insight around production allocation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing performance and wider operational decisions
• Act as a senior finance partner to the Group CFO, European leadership team and Private Equity shareholders

Skills

Finance leadership

Multi-country finance

Finance transformation

Manufacturing finance

Data and systems

Controls & governance

Accounting background

Private Equity experience

Stakeholder management

Fluent English

European travel

ERP systems

Data analytics tools

Education

Accounting qualification

Tools

ERP systems

Data analytics tools

Job description

Finatal, partnering with a leading international PE-backed industrial group, seeks a European Finance Director/EMEA CFO to transform the European finance function and establish a Finance Centre of Excellence. You will lead across multiple countries and work closely with the Group CFO.

You will balance strategic finance leadership with hands-on control, reporting, systems, and post-merger integration, while on-site engagement with plant leadership and operations across Europe.