CFO - Welch Packaging Group : Job Details

The CFO will act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CEO, playing a critical role in shaping the company's long-term financial and operational strategy. This individual will provide the CEO with clear, data-driven financial insights to guide key business decisions, while also ensuring the CEO remains actively involved in major financial strategies and initiatives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

•Lead and Oversee Financial Operations: Direct all aspects of finance and accounting, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial analysis, and cost accounting, ensuring accurate and timely financial information to support decision-making.

•Strategic Financial Leadership: Serve as a key advisor to the CEO and Executive Team on capital structure, financial strategy, and performance optimization. Drive alignment between financial planning and long-term business objectives.

•Integrated Financial Planning: Lead company-wide financial planning and analysis (FP&A), ensuring processes support proactive decision-making and align with strategic growth initiatives.

•Risk and Legal Oversight: Provide financial oversight for legal matters, settlements, risk exposure, and property and casualty insurance needs in coordination with legal counsel and external advisors.

•Cash & Capital Management: Manage cash flow, working capital, and capital expenditure planning to support current operations and future growth while maintaining liquidity and financial flexibility.

•Operational Partnership: Collaborate with operations and business unit leaders to identify margin expansion opportunities, improve cost structures, and support efficiency initiatives across manufacturing and supply chain functions.

•M&A Strategy and Execution: Lead financial evaluation, due diligence, deal modeling, and integration planning for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships in alignment with corporate growth strategies.

•Compliance & Governance: Ensure full compliance with regulatory standards, tax laws, audit requirements, and internal control frameworks, maintaining a strong financial governance environment.

•Financial Systems & Infrastructure: Implement and optimize scalable financial systems, tools, and processes that support operational complexity, global expansion, and reporting requirements.

•Team Leadership & Development: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing finance and accounting team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and business partnership.

•Stakeholder Relations: Maintain and strengthen relationships with key external stakeholders, including auditors, banks, insurance providers, tax authorities, and private equity or investment partners as applicable.

•Enable Agility in Decision-Making: Maintain a flexible, responsive financial strategy that allows the company to pivot quickly in response to market dynamics, operational challenges, or strategic opportunities while supporting a culture of informed, timely decision-making across the organization.

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

•Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA and/or MBA preferred.

Experience

•15+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role (CFO, VP of Finance, or equivalent).

•Strong background in manufacturing; packaging industry experience is highly preferred.

•Experience supporting multi-site or multi-division organizations, ideally in a mid-sized private company environment.

•Proven track record of managing budgets, improving financial performance, and leading cross-functional initiatives.

•Deep knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting standards, and ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).

•Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with a hands-on approach to execution.

•Effective communicator with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS OR ABILITIES

•Strong written and oral communication.

•Organization and attention to detail.

•Analytical and problem-solving skills.

•Systems analysis.

•Mathematical and deductive reasoning.

•Critical thinking.

•Active learning.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job.

Physical Requirements:

•Must be able to sit for long periods of time

•Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phones and printers, light traffic).

•Ability to work in a confined area.

•Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period time.