I am cyrille , an Executive Consultant, with over 20 years of experience in executive recruitment and consulting for top-tier companies. Projekts is proud to collaborate with international clients, including (Fortune 500 companies), operating in more than 20 countries worldwide.
We are currently seeking a Chief Financial Officer group – Tier 1 Automotive Supplier
Our client, an international group engaged in a strong dynamic of evolution, structuring and development, is seeking its future Chief Financial Officer group to support a decisive stage in its journey and to durably strengthen its ability to steer performance in a demanding, multicultural and fast‑moving environment.
This opportunity is aimed at a fully rounded financial leader, able to operate with equal ease on the strategic balance of the company, on the robustness of its financial fundamentals, on the support of transformation initiatives and on the organization’s collective capacity to make fast, sound, well‑founded decisions.
A central role
As a member of the executive committee, the CFO plays a pivotal role in defining, interpreting and implementing the company’s priorities, providing top management with a clear, structured and rigorous view of the economic, financial and organizational issues that shape the group’s trajectory in the short, medium and long term.
Far beyond the supervision of the main financial balances, this role is deeply transversal, as it involves creating the conditions for a more readable, more forward‑looking and more robust performance management framework that underpins strategic decisions with a lasting impact on the organization’s future.
The future CFO will be expected to act as a true business partner to the leadership team, not only securing, monitoring and ensuring reliability, but also proposing, challenging and actively contributing to value creation in all its dimensions.
A transformation mandate
In a context where companies expect their finance function to deliver robust reporting tools and reliable internal controls, this mission clearly fits into a broader agenda of modernization, simplification and raising the overall standards of the finance organization.
The CFO will be responsible for consolidating the group’s financial architecture, enhancing the relevance of performance indicators, improving process efficiency and turning financial data into a concrete decision‑making lever for executives as well as operational teams.
They will also be expected to support transformation projects with discernment and energy, by creating the frameworks, benchmarks and operating rhythms that enable the organization to move forward with confidence, discipline and ambition, even when the environment is complex, volatile or under strong performance pressure.
Influential leadership
We are looking for a leader capable of naturally instilling a culture of performance, accountability and transparency, without ever opposing rigor and relational intelligence, high standards and the ability to engage others, strategic vision and proximity to day‑to‑day realities.
Success in this role will rely on the capacity to bring teams together, to drive organizational progress, to further professionalize practices and to establish a high‑quality dialogue with all internal and external stakeholders, including top management, managers, financial partners and auditors.
In this respect, we will pay particular attention to profiles combining technical credibility, managerial maturity, analytical sharpness and personal impact, and who see the finance function not as an isolated control tower but as an accelerator of clarity, coherence and execution.
Key responsibilities
The scope covers all core dimensions of the finance function, with direct responsibility for the reliability of information, the quality of performance management and the soundness of the company’s financial position, including accounting and closing processes, management control, treasury, taxation, consolidation, compliance and internal control.
The CFO will also play a decisive role in structuring planning and forecasting processes, in improving performance‑tracking mechanisms, in aligning tools and reference frameworks, and in supporting decisions on investment, resource allocation and strategic prioritization.
This role will finally require a strong ability to connect figures to business reality, to turn information into actionable insight and to use financial steering to foster a deeper understanding of the group’s growth, profitability, competitiveness and resilience drivers.
Profile
We are seeking a senior finance executive with a top‑tier academic background in finance, business or management, who has built a solid track record in demanding, international and structured environments where quality of execution, complexity of interfaces and change‑management capabilities are key success factors.
The ideal candidate combines rigorous analytical skills, strategic vision, strong leadership and relational maturity, with a proven ability to act on governance, transformation and performance topics as well as on the essentials of reliability, financial discipline and operational risk control.
We value personalities who enjoy building, clarifying, developing and transmitting, and who approach their role with high standards, energy and enthusiasm, creating around them a climate of trust, commitment and shared ambition.
What the role offers
This position is a particularly stimulating opportunity for a CFO willing to join an organization with a strong international footprint, to sit at the heart of key strategic decisions, and to have a direct influence on the company’s trajectory, transformation and sustainable performance.
It offers a rich platform for a leader who enjoys combining strategy and execution, deep analysis and business proximity, structuring work and momentum, with real exposure to growth, governance, performance and organizational‑evolution topics.
Finally, it is a role that will enable its holder to leave a concrete, visible and lasting mark by strengthening the quality of the financial fundamentals, the maturity of performance management and the group’s collective ability to project itself with confidence into its next stages of development.
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