Finance Business Partner Director CFO, Ukraine
On-siteKyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine
Job Summary
Act as a strategic thought partner to the GM and leadership team, providing forward-looking financial insights that influence key business, portfolio, and investment decisions across markets. Translate enterprise strategy into clear financial priorities, trade-offs, and execution plans at market and cluster levels. Lead integrated annual and long-range planning processes, drive disciplined forecasting, and establish KPI frameworks to enable fact-based decision-making. Shape multi-year financial strategies that balance growth, profitability, cash flow, and risk while evaluating initiatives including market expansion, M&A, and capital deployment. Ensure robust financial controls, governance, and compliance across all markets, anticipating and managing financial, operational, and geopolitical risks. Build and lead a diverse, geographically dispersed finance organization, developing strong finance leaders and successors within a matrix environment.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- 20+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant time in senior finance leadership roles
- Proven CFO or equivalent leadership experience in a multi-market, multinational, matrixed organization, preferably within FMCG or a similarly complex operating environment
- Demonstrated success in strategic financial leadership, transformation, value creation, and enterprise decision-making
- Strong experience partnering with senior executives and boards in high-stakes, fast-paced environments
- Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Ability to connect financial outcomes to business strategy and market dynamics
- Executive Influence: Trusted advisor who can challenge, influence, and align leaders across markets and functions
- Analytical Rigor: Exceptional ability to synthesize complexity into clear insights and recommendations
- Leadership & Talent Development: Track record of building strong teams and future leaders
- Global & Cultural Agility: Effectiveness across cultures, markets, and regulatory environments
- Resilience & Adaptability: Comfort operating amid ambiguity, change, and competing priorities
- Integrity & Courage: Acts with unwavering ethics and speaks up with conviction
- Enterprise Mindset: Thinks beyond individual markets to what is best for the whole
- Learning Orientation: Continuously evolves with the business, technology, and external environment
Desired Qualifications
- Professional certification (CPA, CA, CIMA, or equivalent) strongly preferred
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