VACANCY: CFO of an Automotive Brand
About the Company:
A Russian automotive manufacturer. Full production cycle, large-scale localization program, foreign economic activity (FEA), and supplies to the entire dealer network.
Key Task:
Strategic and operational management of finances for an automotive plant. End-to-end control of vehicle production cost, working capital management, ensuring tax security of intercompany transactions (transfer pricing), as well as digital transformation and automation of the holding's financial operations.
Main Responsibilities:
- Strategic Planning and Investment Analysis: Development of the holding's long-term financial strategy. Financial modeling for launches of new model ranges, platforms, and component localization.
- Automotive Production Economics and Landed Cost: Control of the full cost of each vehicle produced (from import of kits/components, customs duties, and logistics to local assembly, stamping, welding, and painting). Plan-vs-actual analysis of model range profitability.
- Automation and Digitalization of Finance: Acting as the business owner and methodologist for the digitalization of financial processes. Defining technical specifications and controlling the automation of cost accounting, budgeting (P&L, Cash Flow), and intercompany settlements within a unified IT architecture.
- Interaction with Government and State Support: Financial modeling and reporting within the framework of Special Investment Contracts (SICs), Ministry of Industry and Trade subsidies, recycling fees, and compliance with localization requirements (Decree 719).
- Supply Chain Finance Synchronization: Working capital management adhering to strict assembly schedules. Balancing inventory: from import containers at temporary storage warehouses to finished vehicles at dealer warehouses.
- Foreign Economic Activity (FEA) and Holding Treasury Management: Ensuring uninterrupted international settlements with foreign suppliers of equipment and auto components. Liquidity management, intragroup loans, and minimization of currency risks.
Candidate Expectations:
- At least 5 years of experience as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Deputy CFO in the automotive industry (OEMs, assembly), or auto component manufacturing.
- Practical experience in successful implementation and operation of 1C:ERP (or experience migrating from SAP/Oracle to domestic software). Understanding the logic of interconnections between production and financial modules.
- Successful experience in automating treasury, budgeting, management reporting, and transfer pricing processes.
- Experience with government subsidies, preferences, and industrial contracts (SICs).
- Higher economic education + international certification (ACCA, CIMA, CFA) is an advantage.
We Offer:
- Official employment, top manager contract with high fixed income.
- Large-scale strategic tasks, direct reporting to the General Director.
- Professional team of like-minded individuals.
- Location: Moscow.
