Finance Director BauWatch Group

As Finance Director BauWatch Group, you are responsible for leading and further developing the Finance organization across the BauWatch Group. Reporting directly to the CFO, you lead an international Finance organization consisting of local Finance teams, Group Finance and our Shared Service Center in Romania organization.

Over recent years, the Finance team has built a strong foundation while supporting the rapid international development of BauWatch. Your role is to build further on that foundation together with the team, take the time to understand what has been developed, recognize what works well and bring your own experience and ideas to take the next steps.

The Country Finance Managers report directly to you, with a dotted reporting line to their respective local Managing Directors. Business controlling, planning, forecasting and performance analysis are led by the Group Controlling Manager. You work closely together to ensure strong alignment between financial reporting, Finance operations and business performance management.

Your key responsibility’s  

As Group Finance Director, you have broad responsibility for the quality, effectiveness and further development of Finance across BauWatch Group. Your key responsibilities include:

• Lead the international Finance organization – Lead and develop the Country Finance Managers, Group Finance leadership and Shared Service Center, Build a strong Finance community with clear ownership, effective collaboration and common ways of working across countries. You ensure that the fundamentals of Finance – reporting, accounting, audit, tax, treasury, invoicing and cash collection – are well controlled, while continuously improving the way Finance operates and supports the organization.

• Own financial reporting, accounting and audit – Ensure high-quality internal and external financial reporting, statutory compliance, financial controls and the external audit.

• Drive Finance operations and working capital – Own and continuously improve key Finance processes, with particular focus on invoicing, cash collection and Order-to-Cash. Work closely with the business to combine commercial effectiveness with strong financial control.

• Oversee tax, treasury and cash management – Take overall responsibility for Corporate Income Tax and VAT compliance, financing, liquidity and cash flow management across the Group, supported by the Tax & Treasury Specialist.

• Shape Finance systems and digitalization – Own the Finance Application Landscape from a business perspective, including ERP and related applications. Partner closely with IT and play a key role in future implementations, while driving standardization, automation and digitalization across Finance.

• Develop the Shared Service Center – Further develop the Romanian SSC into a scalable, high-quality service organization and an important strategic pillar for BauWatch, including opportunities to support additional functions in the future.

• Connect Finance with the business – Act as a trusted sparring partner to the CFO, Country Managing Directors and other senior stakeholders. Your ability to connect Finance with the rest of the organization will be critical. You build strong relationships across countries and functions, understand what drives the business and translate financial requirements into pragmatic solutions.

We are looking for a Finance leader who is ready to take significant responsibility in an international organization. You combine strong financial leadership with a pragmatic and hands-on approach. You combine strong financial leadership with a pragmatic and hands-on approach.

You have gained a solid Finance foundation and leadership experience, but you are still eager to learn and develop yourself. You do not need to have seen or done everything before. More important is your ability to understand the organization quickly, bring people together and turn your experience and ideas into practical improvements.

You appreciate that sustainable development does not always start with redesigning what is already there. You first seek to understand the choices that have been made and the foundation the team has built. From there, you bring fresh perspectives, challenge constructively and work with the team to determine the next steps.

Your Leadership Style

For this role, how you lead is as important as what you know.

You are a visible, approachable and collaborative leader. You provide direction and set high standards while giving people ownership and room to develop. You enjoy working with talented people and see developing the team as an important part of your own success. You are comfortable leading in a matrix environment and understand the balance between local ownership and increasing consistency across an international organization. Since you will join an organization that has already made significant progress you understand that the starting point is not to replace what exists with your own blueprint. Instead, you will try to understand the foundation, involve the people who built it and determine together where the next improvements can be made. At the same time, you are not afraid to challenge existing practices. You bring new ideas and external perspectives and can translate these into pragmatic improvements that fit BauWatch and its stage of development.

Your qualifications:

• A Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or a related field.

• A solid background in Finance combined with relevant leadership experience; you are ready to broaden your responsibility and take the next step in your career.

• Experience in an international or multi-country environment.

• Broad understanding of financial reporting, accounting and Finance operations, with sufficient knowledge of tax and treasury to provide effective oversight.

• Experience leading and developing Finance professionals and a genuine interest in helping people grow.

• A strong interest in process improvement, standardization and Finance transformation.

• Experience with ERP systems and preferably exposure to ERP implementations or significant Finance systems projects.

• Experience with Shared Service Centers or centralized Finance organizations is an advantage.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect Finance with commercial and operational priorities.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across different levels and cultures.

• A pragmatic, hands-on and solution-oriented mindset.

• A collaborative approach: confident enough to challenge existing thinking, but open-minded enough to recognize and build on what already works.

• Curiosity, energy and the ambition to continue developing both the Finance organization and yourself.

• Professional fluency in English; additional European languages are an advantage.

Why BauWatch?

This role offers the opportunity to take a significant next step in your career, you can help  shape the next phase of a growing international Finance organization, You can build, develop and improve together with a relatively young Finance organization.

Work in an environment where there is room to learn, improve, build and make an impact – together with colleagues across countries and functions.

Have broad responsibility from strengthening the international Finance organization, developing the Shared Service Center to improving processes and shaping the future Finance systems landscape.

About BauWatch

BauWatch is a leading European provider of temporary security solutions, protecting construction sites, infrastructure projects, vacant properties and other locations where flexible and reliable security is essential.

Operating across multiple European markets, BauWatch has developed rapidly into an international organization with a strong local presence. Continued growth, increasing scale and further professionalization create an environment in which Finance plays an important role: safeguarding control while enabling the business to grow.

Interested?

If so please Apply with a cv and a salary expectation.

For questions or more information contact Ruud Licht, Group Recruitment Officer at +31 6 20172020.

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