Published: May 09, 2025 – The Group Chief Financial Officer collaborates closely with the CEO to define and execute strategic objectives, drive growth initiatives, and mitigate key financial risks across DMGT and its portfolio companies. This position provides executive leadership in financial planning, treasury management, tax compliance, and investment structuring to ensure operational efficiency and long-term sustainability. This role oversees accurate financial reporting, corporate governance participation, and comprehensive support in legal, regulatory, and risk-related matters.

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1. Group Chief Financial Officer, Meridian Global Resources Inc., Plano, TX
Job Summary:
- Partner and maintain in-depth relations with all departments and stakeholders, ensuring a cash/cost-conscious culture and enabling a financially intelligent organization.
- Ensures group of companies is compliant with all local and international accounting and tax legal requirements and standards.
- Develops robust budgeting and forecasting models, processes, policies and procedures to enhance a strong budgeting culture with an in-depth cash flow concern.
- Oversees the preparation and timely submission of the statutory and/or IFRS financial statements (stand-alone and consolidated) as the case may be.
- Oversees the preparation and timely submission of all tax filings
- Develops a strong cash management system with a focus on treasury operations and continuous optimization of cash flows and financing sources.
- Develops and manages financial planning, analysis and controlling, together with a strong management reporting system providing valuable insights and controls.
- Leverages technology and global best practices to define and implement international finance operations leveraging a centralized shared service model.
- Leads the development and use of best-practice policies, processes, workflows and tools that ensure a well-controlled yet flexible organization with strong financial and tax discipline.
- Be the champion of healthy and sustainable internal controls, cost efficiency and cash practices.
Skills on Resume:
- Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting Expertise (Hard Skills)
- IFRS Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Tax Filings (Hard Skills)
- Cash Management (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Process Leadership (Soft Skills)
2. Group Chief Financial Officer, Altonica Health Systems Ltd., Rochester, NY
Job Summary:
- Provides insights and guidance to the Executive Leadership Team and management on tactical and strategic investments.
- Analyzes revenue opportunities and economic trends, strengthens internal operations, identifies areas of cost optimization and process enhancement.
- Oversees the indirect procurement and legal teams.
- Provides leadership directions and management to the teams, ensuring an engaging work environment and providing guidance and opportunities to develop the team.
- Oversees and coordinates external and internal financial and/or tax audits, developing a strong professional relationship with the auditors and/or other relevant authorities.
- Interacts and develops strong business relationships with banks and other potential financiers of the organization.
- Together with CEO and Board plans and implements company's business and finance strategy
- Develop corporate governance operations, lead the continuous improvement of financial processes, internal and external controls, and manage contracts
- Provide leadership in corporate financing internationally, including financial management, accounting, budgeting and reporting
- Participate in BOD meetings as Secretary
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Guidance (Soft Skills)
- Economic Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Procurement Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Audit Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Banking Relations (Soft Skills)
- Governance Management (Hard Skills)
- Corporate Financing (Hard Skills)
3. Group Chief Financial Officer, Noventis Energy Solutions LLC, Greenville, SC
Job Summary:
- Develop and monitor performance measures that support the company's strategic direction, profitability and growth.
- Develop financial and tax strategies.
- Oversee and efficiently manage capital expenditure planning and requests.
- Coordinate the preparation of annual budgeting processes.
- Lead the deployment of SAP S/4HANA across the company.
- Implement operational best practices.
- Assess and manage any third-party partners/vendors to which accounting or other finance functions have been outsourced.
- Manage the accounting, investor and banking relations, legal, tax, and treasury departments.
- Supervise the financial operations of subsidiary companies and foreign operations.
- Oversee the company's transaction processing systems.
Skills on Resume:
- Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Tax Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Capital Planning (Hard Skills)
- Budget Coordination (Hard Skills)
- SAP Deployment (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Management (Soft Skills)
- Financial Supervision (Hard Skills)
4. Group Chief Financial Officer, Trivanta Packaging Group Corp., Peoria, IL
Job Summary:
- Maintain relationships with key CAPEX and OPEX suppliers.
- Provide oversight to ensure compliance with local and international reporting requirements and ensure taxes are determined on a timely basis and paid in line with local regulation.
- Work with Executive Management on periodical cost management and revenue growth decisions.
- Lead the due diligence and acquisition process, where applicable.
- Lead the preparation and timely issuance of financial reports and information.
- Provide the Executive Management team with insights/recommendations on potential changes to improve operational efficiencies.
- Ensure the maintenance of appropriate, timely financial records and audits as well as statutory book closing.
- Oversee working capital and cash flow management, including reporting cash forecasts.
- Anticipate and mitigate key elements of the company's risk profile.
- Assess and maintain appropriate internal control safeguards.
Skills on Resume:
- Supplier Relations (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Cost Management (Hard Skills)
- M&A Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Operational Insight (Soft Skills)
- Audit Readiness (Hard Skills)
- Risk Mitigation (Hard Skills)
5. Group Chief Financial Officer, Brightstone Marine Technologies Inc., Mobile, AL
Job Summary:
- Ascertain that the company uses appropriate insurance coverage.
- Make sure that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies.
- Maintain relations with external auditors and investigate findings and recommendations.
- Lead and mentor the existing finance team as well as oversee and manage overall performance.
- Develop structures to build and train an effective finance team.
- Maintain in-depth relations with all other department heads.
- Participate in key decision-making processes as a member of the Executive Management team.
- Identify, implement, monitor and evaluate key value drivers and metrics.
- Identification of bottlenecks and impediments to growth, and of corrective measures that can be implemented to overcome them.
Skills on Resume:
- Insurance Management (Hard Skills)
- Legal Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
- Audit Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Talent Development (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Relations (Soft Skills)
- Strategic Decisioning (Soft Skills)
6. Group Chief Financial Officer, Zeylor Medical Equipment Inc., Spokane, WA
Job Summary:
- Drive the financial planning and budgeting process, aligning the financial targets with the business strategy, setting the individual financial targets for each business unit, and monitoring performance against plan.
- Influence the strategic direction and overall business and financial performance of the Group.
- Lead the full-year and half-year reporting process, including the production of the annual report, ensuring that this is done in a timely and accurate manner.
- Provide the Board with timely, accurate and well-analysed information and performance reporting
- Provide insight to note key trends, issues and opportunities
- Provide the Board with in-depth proposals regarding any potential financial transactions.
- Direct accounting standards and practices to meet external financial, statutory, regulatory and audit obligations.
- Work with the Group CEO to deliver the financial targets and, as a member of the Executive Committee
- Ensure that the business and regional heads are held to account to deliver effective forecasting of income and meet the financial and cost targets of unit(s).
- Monitor the capital and liquidity position, ensuring that the latter is kept within acceptable ratios.
- Ensure correct financial governance and a tight financial control environment, with effective forecasting and cost management across all legal entities
Skills on Resume:
- Financial Planning (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Influence (Soft Skills)
- Reporting Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Board Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Transaction Advisory (Hard Skills)
- Accounting Governance (Hard Skills)
- Forecast Accountability (Soft Skills)
7. Group Chief Financial Officer, Kinverra Agricultural Holdings LLC, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Implement any recommendations that are made by the internal or external auditors to ensure a robust accounting and control environment.
- Ensure adequate financial resources to fund the Group’s investment proposals within the constraints of sound financial management.
- Play a lead role in any debt or equity raising.
- Ensure that cash is optimally managed, along with the treasury implications of multi-currency operations.
- Optimise the Group’s tax charge while adopting a low-risk stance to successfully challenge by the tax authorities.
- Represent the company and continue to strengthen relationships with external stakeholders, investors, regulators, advisors, investor relations, research analysts and the media where appropriate.
- Act as the prime contact with the external Auditors and the Audit Committee.
- Work with the CRO to ensure that risks, and in particular financial risks, are proactively managed.
- Establish and provide clear vision, direction and visible leadership to the function globally with frequent and open communication, ensuring that it is commercially focused and works in complete partnership with the business, driving financial and business performance.
- Ensure that the competencies and skills of the Finance function are appropriate to responsibilities and the needs of the business, continually building and developing a high calibre team and a sustainable pipeline of future finance leaders.
- Act as a culture-bearer, ensuring that the conduct, values and goals set out by the Group CEO become embedded in the Finance function, as a best practice example.
Skills on Resume:
- Audit Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Capital Management (Hard Skills)
- Fundraising Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Treasury Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Tax Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Relations (Soft Skills)
- Risk Management (Hard Skills)
- Finance Leadership (Soft Skills)
8. Group Chief Financial Officer, Stratfold Financial Partners Inc., Allentown, PA
Job Summary:
- Collaborate with DMGT’s CEO to establish and accomplish organizational goals, objectives and strategic plans, exploring growth opportunities and identifying key risks and success factors.
- Provide leadership on the continuous evaluation of short and long-term strategic financial objectives.
- Help drive acquisition and divestiture of investments by DMGT and it’s portfolio companies.
- Serve as a Director of some of the portfolio companies or as a member of a committee of the Board of Directors of a portfolio company.
- Ensure and manage the optimal financing structure for DMGT and its portfolio companies.
- Ensure best-in-class treasury management of the Group.
- Manage the banking, non-bank financing and insurance relationships for the company and its portfolio companies.
- Manage all tax matters including planning, compliance and reporting of DMGT, the portfolio companies and affiliates.
- Lead a strong FP&A discipline across DMGT and its portfolio companies
- Oversee the production of timely and accurate financial statements for DMGT and the various portfolio companies.
- Support DMGT and its portfolio companies in the areas of risk management, regulation (both current and potential), contracts, personnel issues, legal compliance, legal matters and other issues.
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Financial Leadership (Soft Skills)
- M&A Execution (Hard Skills)
- Board Participation (Soft Skills)
- Capital Structuring (Hard Skills)
- Treasury Management (Hard Skills)
- Tax Oversight (Hard Skills)
- FP&A Discipline (Hard Skills)
9. Group Chief Financial Officer, Nexora Materials Group Ltd., Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Work with the senior management teams of the portfolio companies on key strategic issues and projects that require additional management expertise.
- Support for portfolio companies in negotiations with customers and suppliers, as well as investment analysis and strategy formulation.
- Work with the Finance team to deliver day-to-day cash flow management and future cash flow forecasting
- Leading by example to drive a culture of accountability and integrity across the Group
- Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and ensure compliance with UK, US GAAP and applicable federal, state and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting.
- Ensure all regulatory and compliance measures are met as well as DMGT policies and compliance programs.
- Partner to HR on remuneration
- Leading relationship with the Pension Trustees
- Building and leading a diverse team at a high-growth or growth-stage digital company.
- Alignment of financial execution with short and long-term strategic, operational and financial plans.
- Manage the Financial Division of the business.
- Oversight of the financial strategy, financial processes, practices, administration, systems, governance and potential risks.
- Lead the construction, implementation and monitoring of the annual group budget.
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Support (Soft Skills)
- Negotiation Support (Soft Skills)
- Cash Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Cultural Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- HR Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Team Building (Soft Skills)
- Budget Oversight (Hard Skills)