Group Head of Finance (m/w/d)

Group Head of Finance – Switzerland We are looking for a Group Head of Finance to join one of our portfolio companies in German-speaking Switzerland . This key leadership role reports directly to the CEO and the Board of Directors and is responsible for leading a team of 3 to 5 direct reports . Description – What This Person Will Do General: Leads the Finance (accounting, controlling, treasury, and tax), Legal and understands its role as a business partner to the business units. Selects (where improvements necessary) and manages a team of specialists and external advisors (e.g., tax) primarily across two geographies – Germany and Switzerland – while also covering other relevant regions when necessary. Acts as a growth partner with an emphasis on business development, business case development, and analysis of strategic growth opportunities. Establishes and builds trusted relationships, creating alliances with internal managers (C-Level, business unit heads, employees) and external parties (advisors, investors, financing parties). Communicates well with these stakeholders to ensure transparency and accountability of the group and top management. Drives the digitization of the finance function, including accounting and controlling tools based on industry-specific standard software, supported by specialty software solutions to process bookings and reports as fast as possible while ensuring a high level of accuracy. Understands M&A and Post-Merger-Integration, with a clear eye and relevant experience to understand execution risks and mistakes. Experience with managing a project office to enable effective execution across a business. Accounting: Ensures timely monthly reporting for Group and BU entities to management and investors and the debt reporting package to a sophisticated debt fund financing partner, including quarterly calculation of financing covenants. Ensures timely and accurate annual accounts, including consolidation, and required filings. Understands and can manage accrual accounting and defines the accrual policy accordingly. Consolidated annual accounts according to Swiss GAAP. Controlling: Right-hand person to the CEO and helps the top management team define and achieve their targets, enabling the acceleration of business growth. Translates existing strategy into (easy-to-understand) numbers and KPIs, helping to drive the transformation from a leading value-added integrator (design-build-maintain) towards a full-fledged managed service provider (operate-automate). Ensures timely and insightful KPI reporting package to the board and investors. Helps align the workforce behind these numbers and KPIs by disseminating and explaining (repetitively) these numbers and the value behind them. Ensures accountability of Business Unit (“BU”) leaders regarding their numbers and has a good understanding of the key business levers that drive these numbers to help BU leaders deliver their results. Owner of the budgeting and forecast process, supervising, guiding, and challenging business unit leads and other involved parties, and presenting to the board and investors. Controls risk management metrics, identifying and managing key finance-related risks well and communicating operational/business risks to the organization where appropriate. Treasury: Maintains regular contact with the existing debt finance provider and banks for liquidity and hedging programs. Provides accurate cash flow planning based on reported business, backlog, and pipeline. Proactively optimizes cash flow to the company, including NWC management with a strategic view and implementation skills (i.e., driving the organization) on this matter. Conducts pragmatic FX hedging activities. Tax: Ensures timely tax filings, working closely with external tax advisors in two geographies. Manages tax matters effectively, optimizing taxes where possible. Legal: Manages all legal matters, ensuring that legal is a value-adder & business enabler rather than a distractor/showstopper. Oversees corporate governance and regulatory compliance initiatives and ensures fast and effective legal advice and support to internal stakeholders on various matters. Manages the external legal team that drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, agreements, and other legal documents. Ideally handles simple legal matters and standard contracts in-house directly. Handles any potential legal disputes, litigation, and risk management issues. M&A & Project Office: Supports M&A and add-on activities, including deal execution and post-merger integration. Education / Experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration/Finance, e.g., MBA or similar. 3-10 years of experience in a relevant department/field. Location: One of the locations in German-speaking Switzerland . #J-18808-Ljbffr