Contents tagged with cfo

  • Country CFO, Poland

    finance director, cfo, pharmaceuticals, otc, poland, cee, eastern europe, central europe, supply chain

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Search mandate to recruit a country CFO for a top five pharmaceutical company.  At the time Poland generated revenues of $300m and incorporated commercial, manufacturing and shared services; therefore the company was seeking a heavyweight candidate for the role.  Due to the proportion of OTC sales meant the primary target was a candidate coming from FMCG instead of Pharma.

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  • CFO Southern Eastern Europe & CIS

    cfo, finance director, eastern europe, cis, Eurasia, emerging markets, pharmaceuticals

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Mandate to hire the Southern Eastern Europe CFO for a top ten pharmaceutical company with regional operations in Romania, Bulgaria, Balkans as well as the CIS region, with total revenues of $250m.  The tough aspect of this search was the fact the company did not have alignment internally, and started initially targeting expatriated Western Europeans, then local nationals, then "local plus". 

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  • CFO, Russia

    cfo, finance director, finance director, pharmaceuticals, pharma, russia, emerging markets, Eurasia, blue chip

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Managed the search to hire a country CFO for a highly demanding international pharmaceutical group.  The Russia business generated sales of $700m and represented a huge strategic objective for the global management team.  The previous Russia CFO had been highly successful so the benchmark was already very high, and intially the company sought a Western nationality candidate but the successful candidate was a Russian national.  

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  • CFO, Russia & Eurasia

    cfo, finance director, russia, emerging markets, Eurasia, power, engineering, projects

    Sector: Power

    Working with a FTSE listed Power company to identify candidates for a cluster CFO role in this high growth region.  The company was seeking a Big Four trained finance professional who had subsequently joined a Western company ideally in engineering, project-driven or construction services.  We were seeking a recently appointed CFO with Russian nationality who had the cultural adaptability and communication style to engage with the global leadership team, and with the …

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  • CFO Turkey & Middle East

    cfo, finance director, middle east, turkey, istanbul, otc, pharma, fmcg, regional, Eurasia

    Sector: Pharmaceuticals

    Working with a global pharmaceutical group to identify a CFO for the Turkish & Middle East business, which at the time was a $250m revenue cluster.  This company is highly demanding and seeks CFOs who can deputise for the GM and who are capable of driving the business performance in a constructive and value-adding manner.  A highly challenging role.  

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  • CFO / Commercial Director, Eurasia

    cfo, finance director, services, Kazakhstan, Eurasia, middle east, oil

    Sector: Business Services

    A FTSE 100 services was seeking a CFO for the Eurasia business, which at the time was a $200m revenue business.  The challenge of this role was to find a high quality, high potential finance leader at CFO level who was highly commercial in their thinking, and willing to work on a 6/2 rotation contract.  The company hired an internal candidate for the CFO position but we were successful in hiring a candidate for a Commercial Director position in the same …

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  • Country Finance Manager, KSA

    finance manager, financial director, cfo, fmcg, middle east, saudi arabia, ksa

    Working with a global beauty care business to hire a finance leader (CFO) for the company's Saudi commercial operations based in Riyadh.  At the time the KSA operations were relatively small at $30m in annual sales but with a plan to substantially ramp up operations in the country.  The challenge in this assignment was to hire a sufficiently senior candidate to join a smaller affiliate in advance of the growth.

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  • Group Financial Controller (CFO)

    cfo, finance director, financial controller, middle east, dubai

    Sector: Corporate Security

    A high growth corporate security company operating throughout the Middle East with head office in Dubai. The company had grown rapidly but without any formal processes.  The Financial Controller was the CFO of the company and led the set up of formal financial processes and controls, as well as providing management information to inform the decisions of the board of management.  

    The challenge of this recruitment assignment related to the need to hire a …

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