Job description
Job Title: VP of Finance – Motorsport Aftermarket Group, Inc.
Reports to: Board of Directors
Location: Santa Fe Springs, CA or Cerritos, CA
Position Overview:
This individual will provide leadership, direction and management of the finance and accounting team at Corporate and the subsidiary companies, establish/develop relations with the Board of Directors and Operating Management of subsidiary companies. This individual will be the principal communicator with the Board on general corporate and financial matters.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Plan, develop, organize, implement, direct and evaluate the organization’s fiscal functions, including its corporate insurance policies, benefits plans, third-party audits, and treasury management process.
- Act as primary Corporate contact with primary lender, external financial institutions, and equity owners on general financial, operational and administrative matters.
- Manage, organize and coordinate with subsidiary companies on third-party corporate audits related to financials, tax, insurance, 401K, HR, and benefits.
- Ensure timely reporting of required monthly and quarterly financial reporting to primary lender, equity owners, and other key internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop credibility for the finance group by providing timely and accurate analysis of budgets and financial reports that will assist the CEOs of the subsidiary companies, the board and other senior managers in managing their responsibilities.
- Provide strategic financial input and leadership on decision-making issues affecting the organization, e.g., evaluation of potential alliances acquisitions and/or mergers, restructuring activities and various other corporate realignment/transitions.
- Work with subsidiary accounting teams and outsourced tax providers to coordinate, manage and ensure compliance with all corporate and subsidiary tax filings, returns, and correspondence.
- Coordinate and lead financial statement review process with auditors in connection with holding company consolidated financials and with audit of subsidiary businesses.
- Develop a reliable cash flow projection process and reporting mechanism that includes a 13 week Cash Flow Forecast, borrowing base forecasts, and related borrowing needs, and administer capital expenditure management/approval processes.
- Advise Board of Directors and Senior Leaders on the liquidity aspects of its short- and long-range planning.
- Maintain a system of policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over treasury/finance activities.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of progressively responsible finance leadership, ideally with experience across treasury, controllership, financial reporting, and financial planning.
- Thorough understanding of banking account structures, legal entity management, credit agreements, and compliance reporting
- Understanding and/or ability to quickly learn risk management and tax management
- Strong GAAP accounting understanding and controllership capabilities to manage financial reporting
- Experience working with private equity backed companies in the middle market.
Distinguishing Traits for Success:
- Business Acumen: Understand how the business works including key business drivers, important company strategies, competition, and financial data impacting the organization. Makes business decisions that support financial targets.
- Collaboration: Be able to develop cooperation and teamwork while participating in and leading groups, working toward solutions which generally benefit all involved parties. Proven cross-functional team participation capabilities. Be able to work effectively with internal and external partners to accomplish goals.
- Interpersonal Communication: Be able to communicate with diverse people in a clear, concise, and courteous manner through multiple methods, including verbal and written. Probe to understand the facts, implications to the individual and the organization. Use active listening skills to confirm understanding and deepen everyone’s understanding of the issues. Tailor messages to specific audiences. Demonstrate respect to others, surroundings, and self.
- Initiative: Be able to identify opportunities and issues and proactively follow through to capitalize and resolve them. Take positive action without necessarily being requested to do so, and think critically to identify solutions. Be driven by continuous process improvement and creativity. Be a tireless worker with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Seasoned Judgment: ability to sort through complex issues, determine which information has merit, and make the tough calls. Leverages the right data meaningfully to evaluate options make appropriate and sound decisions; follows policies and procedures; thoughtfully challenges those rules or practices that are not serving us organizationally and/or as a business. Gives consideration to the opinions of others.
- Management/People Development: Be able to develop skills and capabilities of functional finance and accounting leaders at subsidiary companies to ensure goals are met. Provide constructive & positive feedback, provide learning and development opportunities.
- Hands on “Roll Up Your Sleeves” Mentality and Capability: Get into the details and be responsible for producing financial reports, forecasts, and plans in addition to managing the process.
- Project Management: ability to manage a diverse variety of corporate tasks across finance, accounting, treasury and tax with multiple stakeholders and contributors from subsidiary businesses and outsourced providers/partners.
Work Environment:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, see talk and hear. The employee will frequently lift and/or carry reports, records and other materials that typically weigh up to 20 pounds. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, bend or crouch.
- Finger dexterity is needed to access, enter, and retrieve data using a computer keyboard, calculator, telephone and other standard office equipment/tools.
- Occasional travel may be required.
All of the information contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this classification, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Management reserves the rights to ad, modify, change, or rescind the duties and/or work assignments of all positions, without advance notice, and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.