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    Senior Director, Finance - Tampa, United States - CAE

    CAE
    CAE Tampa, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    Role and Responsibilities

    Company Overview

    At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, airlines, defense and security forces and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we're everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in approximately 250 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight, mission and medical simulators and training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we'll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

    Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, CAE has built an excellent reputation and long-standing customer relationships based on experience, strong technical capabilities, a highly trained workforce, and global reach. CAE's shares are traded on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (TSX: CAE; NYSE: CAE).

    Defense & Security

    CAE's Defense & Security is a $2B, 6,000+ employee business operating under a Special Security Agreement (SSA) to mitigate foreign ownership, control or influence in order to allow the execution of classified work and research and development in the United States. CAE Defense & Security recently completed the $1B+ acquisition of L3Harris' Military Training Sector and is now the largest platform-agnostic, global training and simulation pure play, dedicated to supporting worldwide defense customers maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

    CAE's Defense & Security (D&S) business unit focuses on helping prepare its customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. CAE is a world-class training systems integrator offering a comprehensive portfolio of training centers, training services and simulation products across the air, land, naval and public safety market segments. The D&S business unit serves its global defense and security customers through regional operations in Canada, the United States/Latin America, Europe/Africa, and Asia-Pacific/Middle East; all of which leverage the full breadth of CAE's capabilities, technologies and solutions.

    CAE is a global leader in the development and delivery of integrated live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) training solutions for defense forces. Most militaries leverage a combination of live training on actual platforms, virtual training in simulators, and constructive training using computer-generated

    simulations. The solutions provided by CAE's Defense and Security business unit typically include a combination of training services, simulation products and software tools designed to cost effectively maintain and enhance safety, efficiency, mission readiness and decision-making capabilities.

    Summary

    The Senior Director, Finance will be responsible for accounting/financial reporting, division finance, strategic planning/budgeting, treasury/cash management, capital planning, program finance, and new business finance functions. The position will be responsible for providing executive leadership, financial strategies, and the management of financial resources to ensure the achievement of the business plans and objectives. The position will also be responsible for overall financial plans and policies. A principal responsibility will be to ensure the quality of financial management throughout the organization, including processes and business analysis and providing informative reports to the entire executive management team. This candidate will also be responsible for preparing reports information for Company Management and its Board of Directors.

    Specific Responsibilities

  • Provide executive leadership for significant financial growth
  • Establish financial policies, practices and procedures for the company
  • Establish appropriate business controls to engender an appropriate "results focus" in decision making. Lead the business through the challenges of growth and position the business to capitalize on as yet undiscovered opportunities
  • Understand and analyze divisional financial performance as it relates to forecasted profitability
  • Improve profit as dictated by annual business plans
  • Coordinate expenditure programs to coincide with forecasted cash flow
  • Extensive experience in both cash and treasury management
  • Analyze and review every facet of the business, including such things as revenue return, pricing, forecasting and taking the appropriate actions to achieve margin improvement and net profit improvement on every element of the business
  • Personally engage to ensure solid program-level financial performance, and that issues and methods for their containment are identified early
  • Personally engage in establishing new business financial strategies and ensure that issues and methods for their containment are identified early
  • Participate with the CFO and the executive management team in preparing financial presentations for company executives, shareholders and financial institutions
  • Provide skill, insight and experience in assessing technology and technology companies for investment recommendations
  • Take initiative with ideas and actively help lead the company regarding strategic and tactical management issues, bringing financial and general management expertise to the division's leadership

    • Team Management

  • Responsible for leading Finance teams within a multi-location environment
  • Oversee planning, budgeting, staffing, coordination, training and activities of functional working groups as required
  • Identify, evaluate, and resolve complex business challenges in a collaborative manner through cross-functional business teams
  • Inspire and lead efforts towards greater efficiencies, synergies, and technological innovation across the Finance organization

    • Professional Experience/Qualifications

  • Familiarity with the sales and booking process and knowledge of the marketplace for the company's products and services
  • Experience in the defense industry
  • Hands-on pragmatic approach to business, asset management, cash flow and profitability
  • Ability to identify problems, prioritize what needs to be done, and stay focused on the priority items to meet the division's financial goals
  • Strong conceptual and business analytical skills
  • Experience as a senior officer, with both controller and treasury experience
  • A good background in corporate finance and a leading role in developing internal and external working relationships
  • Significant experience in rapid growth technology markets, with emphasis on the defense industry, both domestic and international. Experienced in taking a company forward in a fast growth environment, providing insight for direction and managing change effectively
  • Due to Government contract requirements, only citizens are eligible for this role
  • A minimum of 15 years of work experience on a progressive career growth path, with much of that time in a senior financial management position in the defense industry
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting and a CPA. An MBA would be desirable

    • Preferred Skills

  • Articulate, persuasive, and able to build confidence with the financial staff, the executive management team, business unit managers, and the financial/investment community
  • The candidate should offer a good balance of risk-taking and judgment, and be aggressive, entrepreneurial, self-confident and decisive
  • Communicate clearly and effectively with subordinates, peers and supervisors and capable of making presentations to boards
  • Must be a self-starter, highly motivated (strong work ethic) and able to function in a "hands-on" environment
  • Possess excellent leadership qualities and have demonstrated strong management skills
  • The ability to "engage" and work well with people at all levels, and be an astute, diplomatic, and patient team player, able to achieve results
  • Strong analytical and planning skills with vision beyond the task at hand
  • Strong, positive and highly professional image, and a solid personal bearing
  • Proactive and innovative with good administrative skills
  • Results oriented
  • The ability to quickly command respect and credibility through presence, intellectual acumen, business knowledge, and practical understanding of both the financial and operational aspects of a business
  • A professional of unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character who has demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior
  • A personality style that is team oriented and has the success of the organization and business as his/her main objective

    • Other Duties

    Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

    CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national

    origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here .

    PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a

    part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

    Position Type

    Regular

    CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

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