(Senior) Manager Finance Practice (m/f/d)

AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Perform specific due diligence tasks during the company acquisition process
• Perform quick-check-analysis for optimisation potential in portfolio companies after acquisition
• Optimisation of the finance organisation
• Optimisation of forecasting and budgeting processes
• Supporting the CFO / FD in the transition to the new ownership and setting the benchmark for internal reporting requirements
• Preparation of integrated budgets and forecasts including indirect cash flow planning
• Short-term liquidity planning and management
• Supporting the operational implementation of different financial products
• Contact person for different financing partners (banks, 2nd lien lenders, credit insurers)
• Building up controlling structures and KPI-systems supporting data-driven management and control
• Gap analysis, identification, and implementation of immediate countermeasures

Qualifications required

• University degree / suitable experience in business / economics and strong analytical skills
• At least three years relevant experience, preferably with a top management consulting firm or Big4
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills combined with a confident, convincing and entrepreneurial personality
• Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork
• Practical, hands-on mentality
• Capability to lead teams through critical transformations with the required sensitiveness and speed
• Extensive travel required
• Fluent in English, further language skills welcome (German is helpful, but not required)