Chief Financial Officer

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY: Provide overall strategic and tactical leadership of the financial operations of the company and its subsidiaries.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  
•   Build key capabilities that enable high-efficiency processing and effective delivery of core finance, accounting, and supply chain management functions. 
    -Digitally transform service delivery of subject functions. 
    -Deploy a leveraged digital model for core transactional processes and reporting.
    -Deploy a high level of process automation for basic transactions.
    -Finance/Accounting Goal – Provide real-time delivery of key services, functional KPI’s and robust, relevant financial reporting at a reduced departmental expense.
•   Provide high-value tools, expertise, operational and financial insights to business leaders, which enable a higher level of business strategic partnering and significant business value enhancement.
    -Build and deploy sophisticated analytics capabilities and business intelligence that provide keen insights and exploit business value residing in vast stores of data (unit level economics—revenue, cost, operating leverage, asset utilization, etc.).
    -Actively collaborate with business leaders and IS/IT leaders to design and deliver efficient and effective services around customer experience.
    -Upgrade team/skills for stronger problem solving that leverage business and technology knowledge to drive operating efficiencies and business profitability.
    -Goal—near real-time business intelligence and insight/KPIs that helps guide path to improved profitability, strong growth and improved ROI.
•    Oversee supply chain functions to maximize efficiency and value.
•    Overall, achieve outperformance by reallocating resources from low- to high-value activities, working closely with CEO.
•    Ensure concerns are raised to the appropriate level of management.
•    Maintain and protect the confidentiality of all CRL, CRL subsidiaries, legal entities and client information.
•    Be able to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local safety and health regulations that would apply to this job.
Other duties as assigned by the CEO

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:  Accounting or Finance degree required; CPA and/or MBA strongly preferred.

EXPERIENCE: 15 years of senior leadership experience

SKILLS & ABILITIES:  
•    Must be analytical
•    Demonstrated track record of creating significant business value
•    Expertise and depth in analytics and high-throughput processing/automation
•    Transformation mindset/skillset; hands-on leader
•    Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
•    Willing to coach and mentor others

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be available to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the necessary physical attributes for office work such as:
•    Sitting for extended lengths of time
•    Close vision requirements due to computer work 
•    Repetitive use of hands, fingers, wrists and elbows for operating a computer and telephone 
•    Light lifting, up to 10 pounds

EQUIPMENT:  PC and communications equipment

OTHER:  
The employer shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust this position to meet the company’s changing needs.

This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in the employer’s sole discretion.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer