Chief Financial Officer

Job Overview

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) plays a pivotal role in steering UCX's strategy and operations. Reporting directly to the President, the CFO provides critical analysis, insights, and creative solutions to ensure the short-term and long-term success of the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Financial management to run the business for optimum performance
• Accounting and financial controls to protect the company and shareholders
• Cost control management to help maximize operating results
• Forecasting to allow the best possible decision making
• Risk and liability services to protect the company and shareholders
• Shareholder services and support of all Board of Directors matters as required
• Credit services to preserve customer relationships and increase profit at acceptable risk
• Services in areas such as strategic planning, legal, and acquisitions

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a mid-sized company, including divisional CFO responsibility or other senior financial management roles, in a distribution business preferred
• Minimum five years’ hands-on experience with P&L management (pricing, margin and expense management) and Balance Sheet / Working Capital management (accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable and debt management)
• Experience managing multiple departments and ten or more employees
• Experience in companies whose operations included warehousing and logistics with a large hourly workforce
• Successful ERP implementation experience in a distribution business
• Experience restructuring financial processes such as general ledger integration, accounting policy standardization, and financial control standardization
• Proven experience managing the delivery of the annual audit report working with external public auditors
• Experience executing acquisitions to include valuation, due diligence, and integration
• Professional with natural business acumen and excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Capability to provide trusted and creative insight and counsel in a variety of fields
• Discipline and organization skills to establish and maintain work processes
• Ability to coordinate collaborative multi-department efforts
• Skilled collaborator in an executive team setting who can complete strategic as well as tactical tasks within the role
• "Roll-up your sleeves" mentality to work as a team player and coach to get the job done
• Concern for employees and strong shareholder values
• Advanced skills in business software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Bachelor’s degree required, business discipline preferred
• Master’s degree is a plus
• Evening and some weekend work frequently required
• Up to 30% travel required

Why Join UCX?

At UCX, we're committed to empowering our employees, fostering a positive work environment, embracing change, going the extra mile, collaborating effectively, and celebrating our successes. Our core values guide our decisions and actions every day.

UCX Mission

Our Mission is to empower a high performing team that is aligned to exceed customer expectations. That means the Ultimate Customer Experience for customers and employees.

OUR VALUES IN ACTION

• Take Ownership
• Be a Good Human
• Be Adaptive to Change
• Go the Extra Mile
• Collaborate & Communicate
• Celebrate Success