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Form of workAre you looking for a rewarding career helping to build a better America? If that sounds like you, we'd love for you to join us!
POSITION PURPOSE:
Reporting to the President and CEO, the CFO is a key member of the Company leadership team and is responsible for overseeing and continually improving company-wide financial strategies, operations, and compliance.
Strategic Leadership:
- Participate in strategic decision-making and propose improvement initiatives
- Direct planning and budget development to support company financial goals
- Develop pricing models and recommend best business practices for the Company; set sales margin benchmarks that maximize company profitability
- Create, establish, and direct the execution of financial policies to support overall company policies and objectives
- Lead cost-reduction efforts that enable the Company to meet net operating income goals
- Model and interpret the financial impact of growth opportunities and company initiatives
- Support management decision-making with timely, accurate, and actionable financial information
- Maintain and improve relationships with banks, ensuring compliance with bank covenants
- Live by Highway’s values; advance and support a culture of leadership, responsibility, accountability, continual improvement, and fun among all employees
Financial Operations:
- Oversee financial operations including expense, cost, and margin control, financial reporting and forecasting, monitoring bank covenants, audit and tax management, cost/benefit analysis, legal compliance, and floor plan management
- Recruit, motivate, mentor, and empower high-performing finance and accounting teams to achieve company goals; measure team member’s success on an ongoing basis and coach/take corrective action as necessary; execute a consistent performance management process with employees including quarterly reviews and annual goal setting
- Monitor financial performance by measuring and analyzing results, initiating corrective actions, and minimizing the impact of variances
- Maximize return on invested funds by identifying investment opportunities and maintaining relationships with the investment community
- Produce and validate a monthly financial reporting package; provide analysis to CEO and leadership team during monthly financial review meetings
- Utilize company systems to analyze data and propose and implement positive changes
- Prepare schedules for auditors for the annual review and tax return preparation
- Track performance and cost metrics for all locations
- Continually improve knowledge through educational opportunities, reading publications, and participating in professional networks and organizations
- Understand legal issues affecting the industry and ensure that the Company complies with all financial regulatory requirements, including recordkeeping, insurance coverage, and other financial laws
- Monitor cash balances and forecasts, and maintain responsibility for debt and financing
- Contribute to Highway’s overall success by performing additional duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field required; advanced degree and/or CPA required
- Minimum ten (10) years in a financial management position required
- Minimum of five (5) years’ experience directly or indirectly involved in one or more industry segments related to the industries served by Highway Equipment Company, its customers, suppliers or competitors
- In-depth knowledge of budgeting, sales, business development and strategic planning
- Experience leading, building, and optimizing a team
- Hands-on experience in due diligence with acquisitions and growth opportunities preferred
- Must have the highest level of ethical standards and exercise exceptional judgment in all circumstances
- Must be creative, imaginative, positive, and self-motivated
- Superior interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Exceptional problem-solving skills when facing financial and management challenges
- Excellent computer and mathematic skills (Microsoft Office, CRM Software)
- Must be highly creative, imaginative, positive, motivated and have the highest level of ethical standards
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Must have a valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record and must be able to pass a background check
ABOUT HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT:
A family-run business since 1933, Highway Equipment has one simple mission: making uptime easy for our partners, to build a better America. We live that mission every day by staying true to our three pillars:
SOLUTION PARTNERS. We're more than a vendor. To our customers, we’re true partners. We help them get the job done productively and predictably.
URGENT ABOUT UPTIME. Our partners' time is valuable, and their uptime is critical. That's why we do everything we can to keep them running.
A JOY TO WORK WITH. Heavy equipment should be fun. With us, it is. We're always on the lookout for ways to make things smoother and easier for our partners.
We're looking for people who can help us make uptime easy for our partners, to build a better America. If that sounds like you, we'd love for you to join us!
