Finance Director

Dunapack Packaging is a member of the Austrian Prinzhorn Group and specializes in the production of corrugated cardboard packaging, executed at a high quality level using mainly recycled paper.
Exceeding 6000 employees across 12 countries and 24 plants, Dunapack Packaging is the regional market leader in Central and Eastern Europe, meeting customers‘ highest packaging requirements and delivering innovative and competitive packaging solutions. 
At Dunapack Packaging, we have an agile work culture. We prioritize clear responsibilities and foster collaboration while empowering our future leaders to drive functional excellence and accelerate our speed to market.
With a modern approach, a long tradition and a clear goal for the future, we are committed to “living circularity” as our purpose and embrace “people”, “performance” and “responsibility” as our main core values.

Main tasks:

• Provide financial advice to the company's managers to enable them to achieve the assumed objectives.
• Proactively monitor the business performance to ensure financial/operational trends and issues are clearly highlighted and communicated early, working effectively with other departments to drive improvements
• Analysis and interpretation of revenue, cost, margin and ROI (Return on Investment) variance to identified performance drives / improvements opportunities
• To run all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the Finance function. This will cover everything from GL, AP, AR, tax, banking, accounts preparation and business partnering.
• Oversee the preparation and analysis of financial reports, budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans.
• Own the business planning and forecasting cycle. Ensure that the right KPIS are in place to track progress to deliver financial targets whilst highlighting and driving profit improvements through growth and cost reduction and control.
• Develop and implement an internal control system to ensure that the company complies with external legal and internal group regulations 
• Inspire and lead the finance, IT and procurement teams, promoting a culture of excellence and value-added business partnering
• Deliver the annual cash flow plan and deal with all cash related matters (bank, hedging)
• Lead with excellence by embodying the Group's core values and the Division's five pillars,fostering a positive mindset, a high-performance team, and a culture of mutual respect.
• Co-operation with all tax authority, banks, external advisors and financial authorities.
• Managing Working Capital, AP and AR and improve the cash conversion
• Managing, motivating and developing the Finance team to ensure a focus on delivering the correct transactional tasks and value-added business partnering

Additional tasks:

• A key member of the local management team driving the strategic planning and performance of the business by the provision of effective analysis, modelling and advice.
• Drive process improvement within the department, with increased automation and a far more paperless function.
• Ensure adherence to legal requirements, internal policies and ethical standards.
• Active creating a culture of compliance
• Review contracts and services provided by suppliers to ensure that these provide the best added value to the company.
• Improving financial controls, processes, driving automation and systems to enable effectiveness and efficiency will be hugely important.

Goals of the job:

• Strategic Vision: be able to translate financial data into actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making, growth initiatives, and risk management.
• Commercial Acumen: A deep understanding of the business landscape, industry trends, and competitive dynamics is crucial. should be able to anticipate challenges, identify opportunities, and champion sound financial practices that support overall business goals.
• Effective Communication: communication clearly and compellingly to various stakeholders. able to present complex data in a way that is understandable and engaging, building trust and ensuring informed decision-making.
• The dynamics of the role and the organisation will provide a great opportunity to help grow a business, upscale its support infrastructure and to be a full local management team member with significant Operational and Strategic input.
• Contributes to overall success of the company by effectively managing all financial tasks for the organization.  
• Full responsibility for all finance and administrational processes and continually following Group/Division standards and minimum level of preconditions for it on a daily level to support company strategy & business focus points and be faster as a decision maker. 
• Supplying both external and internal customers with outstanding knowledge, skills and dedication, while keeping focused on the strategic goals of the company. 
• Budget responsibility for all expenses and costs of the Finance department. 
• Ensuring transparent and legally compliant business practices and acting as a role model for business ethics. 
• Development of local team with continuous work and improvement on team members competence (eg. by using FIT, CoP works)
• Motivated and highly skilled team. 
• To achieve the ESG target, every future activity must contribute to ESG target fulfilment
• To support the creation of a fair, diverse, caring and collaborative culture

Relevant relations to other functions:

• Collaboration with  Logistics, QM, Production, Finance, Procurement, HR, IT Collaboration with Divisional Controlling and Finance organization (eg. Reporting, Controlling) 
• Collaboration with Prinzhorn Group (eg. Treasury; IT; PCA )  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Requisition ID: 4056