Chief Financial Strategist

Performance Food Group; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Performance Food Group in Florida seeks an experienced finance leader to oversee financial operations, reporting, and strategic planning across the organization. The role directs accounting, treasury, and FP&A activities, partnering with executives on budgeting and risk management while ensuring robust internal controls.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's in accounting/finance with supervisory experience; MBA is a plus.

Qualifications

• Accounting, Finance, or related area with supervisory experience.
• Management experience preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree accounting, finance, or related area.

Responsibilities

• Participates in formulating and administering company policies and strategic planning.
• Directs and analyzes studies of general economic, business, and financial conditions and their impact on the organization's policies and operations.
• Represents the company in banking and financial relations.
• Dispenses advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out the financial operation of the company through other management.
• Directs and coordinates activities of department for which responsibility is delegated to further attainment of goals and objectives.
• Reviews analyses of activities, costs, operations, and forecast data to determine department progress toward stated goals and objectives.
• Creates, maintains and supports all reports pertaining to P & L/balance sheet/cash flow
• Discusses financial reporting with first and second tier management
• Meets with company executives to go over objectives, vision (strategic planning) and address company financial issues
• Directs activities as custodian of funds, securities, and assets of the organization
• Determines fund availability and propriety of claims
• Accounts for cash, checks, and other negotiable instruments.
• Oversees commitments and obligations, payments, and collections
• Prepares and executes financial plans
• Interprets and supplements financial directives
• Oversees processing, verifies, audits travel claims, estimates travel costs, determines fund availability, and performs follow-up
• Determines propriety and certifies availability of funds
• Schedules, prepares, verifies, and submits financial accounting reports
• Prepares narrative justification to support financial requirements.
• Oversees end of year audit.
• Reviews financial data for accuracy, and resolves discrepancies.
• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, developing, evaluating and terminating Accounting Department associates
• Responsible for managing Finance associates including performance appraisals
• Develops financial systems to facilitate informal management decision-making.
• Designs and implements processes to give managers the necessary financial data to make decisions and monitor performance (e.g., time tracking system).
• Ensures the effective management of financial operations.
• Ensures integrity of cash, receivables, and payables management.
• Executes all major financial transactions
• Monitors the overall financial health of the organization using established metrics.
• Enforces financial discipline/guidelines and controls to key players
• Arranges and oversees completion of all work including posting, processing, and verification of receipts, credit claims, refunds, interest charges, or similar records
• Analyzes and interprets financial data and recommends changes to improve systems and financial performance
• Supervises collections functions and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results
• Coordinates schedules, activities and reports with other departments.
• Analyzes, investigates and corrects accounting entries as needed
• Examines, analyzes and interprets records for the purpose of giving advice or preparing statements
• Performs reconciliation of complex transactions
• Proactively develops and maintains effective reporting and management processes to identify, measure, and drive business decisions from key financial information while safeguarding resources
• Directs and implements advanced systems, policies and procedures related to the organization's fiscal function and performance
• Develops and maintains client relationships
• Identifies needed areas of change to prepare for continued corporate growth
• Develops, customizes, and manages specialized client reporting function
• Oversees the maintenance and calculations of various incentive programs within the company.
• Provides and directs procedures and systems necessary to maintain proper records and to afford adequate financial controls and services.
• Performs additional duties as assigned by the President

Skills

Accounting

Finance

Supervisory experience

Management experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance

Job description

Performance Food Group in Florida seeks an experienced finance leader to oversee financial operations, reporting, and strategic planning across the organization. The role directs accounting, treasury, and FP&A activities, partnering with executives on budgeting and risk management while ensuring robust internal controls.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's in accounting/finance with supervisory experience; MBA is a plus.