Chief Financial Officer

Job Description Company Summary: Sweet Street is the leading innovator in the dessert industry. We're still owned and operated and headquartered in Reading with a team of like-minded, passionate researchers and recipe developers who now bake for restaurants in over 60 countries, on every continent. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Oversee all aspects of financial management and analysis for the Corporation, exhibiting a strong hands-on approach. - Recommend, develop and implement financial and tax strategies that are most advantageous to the company. - Develop tools and systems to provide critical financial and operational information to the CEO and make actionable recommendations on both strategy and operations. - Develop and execute analysis of various business initiatives including mergers and acquisitions and new product and service launches. - Provide guidance and recommendations for financial systems enhancements. - Provide managerial leadership and direction to the Finance and Treasury functions of the corporation. Ensure maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures. - Point of contact for auditors, bankers, insurers and regulatory agencies. - Lead the Finance team, including mentoring and developing team members, managing work allocation, training, problem resolution, performance evaluation and the building of an effective team dynamic. - Analyze, advise, attain concurrence and implement management processes to achieve excellent, state-of-the-art analysis of the following: - Establishment of new product cost and pricing; - Verification of return on investment expectations and actual results from the purchase of capital equipment and improvements; - Planned versus actual operational and financial results; - Planned versus actual market opportunities; - Development of costs incurred to implement new products and processes. - Domestic versus International cost/price assessments - Assuring that product line costing is a reliable tool. - Analysis of co-packing opportunities. - Establish process and procedural guidelines for: - Required internal and external financial reporting - Cost estimating for new products - Cost estimating for impact of product and process improvements - Manage the company's insurance programs, real estate affairs including leases and subleases, negotiating new leases or lease renewals, coordinate with real estate counsel, and manage the company's general legal affairs. - Provide recommendations towards the personal investments of the CEO, including financial oversight of other ventures - Provide audits as necessary of the CEO's personal financial records Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: - Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics and MBA, CPA preferred. - 5 or more years of experience in senior financial leadership of a privately held company in small to mid-sized consumer packaged food manufacturing, with both domestic and international presence. - Experience partnering with executive staff resulting in the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies. - Strong international finance experience - ERP experience and highly developed Excel skills. - Extensive knowledge and understanding of business systems, product and process cost evaluation, mergers and acquisitions, and other aspects of financial management. - Understanding of process manufacturing, IT, and other cross functional departments. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to enable organization growth and success. - Strategic thinker, able to look at the big picture as well as dig out the details, with ability to reduce the issues and concepts to comprehensive pieces of information. - Ability to embrace rapid change and serve as a change agent. - Effective verbal and written communication skills to influence internal and external audiences. - Highly collaborative team player with good interpersonal skills. - Demonstrated leadership ability and team management.

Created: 2024-10-19