CFO
Rotterdam area
As CFO you will play a key role in building and professionalizing the financial foundation to support rapid growth. You will be responsible for financial strategy, reporting, margin optimisation and introducing BI, while acting as a strategic sparring partner to the CEO.
You combine strong analytical skills with hands-on execution and are able to design improvements as well as personally implement them within the organization. This is a role for a commercially minded, tech savvy financial leader who enjoys operating in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.
Responsibilities
As a CFO you will take a leading role in strengthening and professionalizing the company’s financial foundation. A key part of your responsibilities will be to improve conditions in financing and capital markets. This includes negotiating better loan terms, setting up factoring and reverse factoring structures, and securing attractive deals from capital markets. Where relevant, you will also establish clear procedures for currency hedging to protect against exchange rate volatility.
You will design and implement a robust cost management framework by building cost center structures and introducing Business Intelligence tools to provide greater transparency and identify saving opportunities. In addition, you will focus on cashflow optimization by streamlining AP and AR processes, ensuring that funds are deployed efficiently and remain available for growth investments.
Beyond financial control, you will play an important role in process improvement. This means analyzing, optimizing, and automating financial and operational procedures to enhance efficiency and reduce risk. As part of this, you will establish effective financial and operational risk frameworks to ensure long-term stability.
Together with the CEO you will develop the budgeting and forecasting cycle, developing annual budgets and rolling forecasts that align financial planning with strategic business goals. Alongside this, you will take responsibility for building and developing the finance team, fostering strong collaboration across departments such as sales, operations, and logistics.
At the strategic level, you will serve as a sparring partner to the CEO and management team, advising on investments, partnerships, pricing strategies, and expansion opportunities.
Reliable reporting will be central to your role: you will deliver accurate financial reports, forecasts, and KPIs that guide both management decisions and shareholder discussions.
Finally, you will combine strategic oversight with operational involvement. This means not only shaping the financial direction of the company but also being hands-on when needed for example by reviewing supplier contracts, overseeing payment approvals, and ensuring financial discipline throughout the organization.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Finance, Accountancy, Business Economics, or similar fields
- At least 5 years of leadership experience
- Minimum one similar previous experience leading the finance department at a small-, or mid-sized company
- Proven track record in improving financial operations.
- Strong analytical and commercial mindset; connect financial insights with business reality.
- Tech-savviness with ideally also the ability to implement basic BI insight tools, or automations
- Negotiating loan conditions in a previous role is highly preferred
- Experience in factoring and reverse factoring procedures is a plus
What's on offer?
- A key leadership position in a fast-growing global trading company
- The opportunity to directly shape the financial backbone of a company aiming triple their yearly revenue within 3 years.
- Equity possibility after long-term positive collaboration
- A dynamic and entrepreneurial environment with short decision-making lines.
- Competitive salary package with attractive secondary benefits.
About the company
This company is a fast-growing international trading company in beauty products selling B2B and B2C directly via an online webshop. The main trade is taking place in their B2B unit where a team of 25 traders is actively trading on the global market. At their office they are working with 75 people in total.
Last year the company did approximately €50 mln in revenue and is aiming at €65 mln for this year. The ambition is to reach €150 mln over the next three years. To fuel this growth, nearly all profits are reinvested back into the business.