Cfo Spain

This role is a key finance role in Spanish and global finance organization. The role will report to Managing Director SER (South European Region) and functionally to Group CFO. The role will be located in Albacete, Castilla la Mancha, Spain, full time executive position. Competitive salary and bonus opportunity in an exciting and international high growth environment

**About Atida**:
On-line pharmacy is an innovative, dynamic and rapidly growing e-commerce business with a portfolio of healthcare, beauty and lifestyle products part of the Marcol and InvestIndustrial Groups, two international private equity houses. The Spanish branch operates under the name of Mifarma & Dosfarma.

We are focused on developing a pan-European online pharmacy business. This market has a high barrier to entry, operates with country specific regulation and has the potential for consolidation. The European pharmacy sector (excluding Russia) is worth an estimated €250bn. This market potential combined with the nascent state of the online pharmacy market represents a significant opportunity for Mifarma. Companies have been acquired in Germany and Spain, with more in the pipeline.

We are looking for a hands-on, operational Finance Manager to help us drive the continued growth and achieve our plans in our on-line pharmacy business in Spain, with its head-office in Albacete. Today, the business sells over-the-counter medication, beauty, cosmetics as well as wellness and homeopathic products to end consumers. We have undergone tremendous growth, which we expect will continue and accelerate into the future as we also expand internationally.

The new Finance Manager will therefore be growth-orientated and able to work both as a dedicated finance executive and as a business partner at all levels to ensure that the growth is delivered in accordance with the plan.

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**Responsibilities**:

- Drive the day-to-day performance through monitoring of key metrics and adequate finance and operational processes
- Monitor the day-to-day financial operations within the company, such as payroll, invoicing, and other transactions in Spain
- Drive cost and spending discipline and monitor the impact on budget and plans
- Monitor cash position and take actions to optimize
- Establish A/P and A/R processes
- Serve as a reviewer of supplier agreements
- Oversee and manage financial department employees
- ensure timely and adequate tax returns and statutory accounts preparation, auditing, banking and other regulatory filings required in a country
- Ensure financial statements accurately reflect the financial position of the company in line with statutory and group requirements and procedures
- Lead the management team in preparing near-term and longer-term budgets and business plans. Manage the delivery of these budgets and plans by pro-actively identifying risks and ensuring that corrective action is implemented
- Responsible for identifying and managing the financial, legal and regulatory risks for the company
- Implements policies, procedures and processes as designed and provided by the central finance team
- Provide insightful information and expectations to senior executives to aid in long-term and short-term decision making
- Stay up to date with technological advances and accounting software to be used for financial purposes
- Identify and together with group finance team determine areas for automatization of the finance processes
- Acts as a strategic business partner to Managing Director of SER (Southern European Region) and CFO of OLP
- Participates in key decisions as a member of the Spanish management team
- Bachelor or master’s degree in accounting or Finance
- 10+ years in progressively responsible financial leadership roles;
- Outstanding knowledge and understanding of Spanish GAAP and IFRS.
- Excellent analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills
- Relevant experience working with external auditors, internal controls and compliance-related issues
- Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the country and global organization
- Experience in e-commerce/mail order is highly beneficial. Exposure to a high-turnover physical product environment would also be a plus
- Strong experience in financial planning and analysis and able to have an impactful presence by putting the numbers into context
- Experience in process design and improvements. Highly beneficial to have extensive experience in ERP implementation and systems design and management as well as process optimization
- Work closely with global finance teams and stakeholders to ensure seamless sharing of know-how and best practices as well as be part of building world class finance team
- Be ego-free, appropriately collaborating with other (finance) teams to let best approach win, regardless of i