Linum Consult’s client is a major luxury real estate firm in France. They are seeking a Finance Director with a background in the Real Estate sector to join their team in France.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Directing, controlling, and administering the financial strategy, planning, and activities or the company in line with overall corporate objectives
- Developing and implementing financial strategy to facilitate the delivery of the company’s vision, mission, and strategy, and the achievement of strategic goals
- Aligning the financial policies and procedures with the overarching company strategic objectives, vision, and core values and ethics
- Building an environment that delivers robust financial and corporate governance by establishing state of the art financial processes and controls
- Ensuring that statutory financial requirements are met as per applicable regulations (e.g., IFRS, French Law)
- Leading the External Audit processes
- Representing the company vis-à-vis the financial community (MOEF, banks, shareholders)
- Authorising all project and corporate-related payments as per the Table of Financial Authority
- Delivering and reporting over a robust and reliable work plan and budget, aligned to corporate strategic objectives to relevant stakeholders
- Ensuring that the Finance function delivers reliable, timely, and accurate financial information and data that facilitates the CEO and Steering Committee in making decisions
- Leading and mentoring the Finance leadership team
PROFILE
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, ideally with an MBA qualification and ACCA, ACA, CA, CPA, or CMA
- 15 years’ experience in Finance, with at least 5 years in a senior level finance executive role
- Experience of managing and executing strategic financial plans
- Previous history of successfully managing a budget and reporting to an Executive Team
- Strong understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and French regulations
- Experience of working in a highly complex environment
- A background of working on substantial luxury Real Estate projects, or for Real Estate companies
- Fluent in spoken and written French and English
APPLICATION PROCESS
If you fulfil the minimum requirements stipulated by our client and are confidentially interested in applying, then please drop Linum Consult a line with a copy of your CV and contact details to europe@linumconsult.com for the attention of Neill Donald.