Financial Director Iberia

Page Executive; Madrid; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Page Executive is seeking a senior leader to drive finance transformation for an Iberian region of a leading FMCG multinational. The role collaborates with the Iberia CEO, leadership team, and regional/European stakeholders to redefine the finance function and enable strategic business partnering.

The successful candidate will empower teams, challenge processes, and guide the organisation through major technology and ERP transformations, ensuring a rapid impact from onboarding.

Qualifications

• Solid experience leading complex finance organisations.
• Proven transformation and change management experience.
• Strong business partnering orientation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Inspirational leadership and ability to develop teams.
• Strategic vision and commercial mindset.
• Ability to build trust quickly.
• Intellectual curiosity and continuous learning.
• Ability to empower and delegate.
• High level of English.
• Experience in the FMCG sector is highly desirable.
• Manufacturing and operations experience.
• Work experience in international and multicultural environments.
• Large-scale organisational transformation experience.
• Exposure to ERP implementations and major technology transformations.

Responsibilities

• Build credibility and trust quickly.
• With the Iberia CEO, Leadership Team, finance organisation, and regional and European stakeholders.
• Balance business proximity with the independence required of the finance function.
• Lead the transformation.
• Evolve the finance function and prepare the organisation for Fusion.
• Challenge existing processes, promote new ways of working, and manage change effectively.
• Deliver impact from the earliest stages of onboarding.
• Drive business partnering.
• Move from a predominantly control-oriented function to one that actively contributes to business decisions and development.

Skills

Finance leadership

Transformation experience

Business partnering

Stakeholder management

Leadership development

Strategic vision

Trust building

Curiosity learning

Empowerment and delegation

English proficiency

Job description

• Leader FMCG multinational company
• Transformation role

About Our Client

One of the leading consumer companies in the Iberian market, specializing in the production, marketing, and distribution of their products.

Job Description

• Build credibility and trust quickly.
• With the Iberia CEO, Leadership Team, finance organisation, and regional and European stakeholders.
• Balance business proximity with the independence required of the finance function.
• Lead the transformation.
• Evolve the finance function and prepare the organisation for Fusion.
• Challenge existing processes, promote new ways of working, and manage change effectively.
• Deliver impact from the earliest stages of onboarding.
• Drive business partnering.
• Move from a predominantly control-oriented function to one that actively contributes to business decisions and development.

The Successful Applicant

Expected Success and Leadership Style

• Lead through empowerment, not control.
• Inspire and mobilise teams.
• Develop talent and succession.
• Be curious, adaptable, and humble.
• Challenge the status quo constructively.
• Know when to dive deep and when to delegate.
• We are not looking for a technical expert involved in every decision, but for a leader who unlocks the capabilities of others.

Skills and personality

• Solid experience leading complex finance organisations.
• Proven transformation and change management experience.
• Strong business partnering orientation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Inspirational leadership and ability to develop teams.
• Strategic vision and commercial mindset.
• Ability to build trust quickly.
• Intellectual curiosity and continuous learning.
• Ability to empower and delegate.
• High level of English.
• Desirable Experience
• Experience in the FMCG sector is highly desirable.
• Manufacturing and operations experience.
• Work experience in international and multicultural environments.
• Large-scale organisational transformation experience.
• Exposure to ERP implementations and major technology transformations.

What’s on Offer

Potential growth and development.