Dir, Finance

PFG Specialty is a family of premium, center of the plate processing companies, dedicated to delivering the highest-quality products and services to discerning restaurants. Our skilled professionals source, process, and distribute the finest meat and seafood available. With facilities located in New England, Wisconsin, and Florida, the Specialty companies offer the expertise of local craftspeople, backed by decades of experience in the food service industry.

• Participates in formulating and administering company policies and strategic planning
• Directs and analyzes studies of general economic, business, and financial conditions and their impact on the organization's policies and operations
• Represents the company in banking and financial relations
• Dispenses advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out the financial operation of the company through other management
• Directs and coordinates activities of department for which responsibility is delegated to further attainment of goals and objectives
• Reviews analyses of activities, costs, operations, and forecast data to determine department progress toward stated goals and objectives.
• Creates, maintains and supports all reports pertaining to P & L/balance sheet/cash flow
• Discusses financial reporting with first and second tier management
• Meets with company executives to go over objectives, vision (strategic planning) and address company financial issues
• Directs activities as custodian of funds, securities, and assets of the organization
• Determines fund availability and propriety of claims
• Accounts for cash, checks, and other negotiable instruments.
• Oversees commitments and obligations, payments, and collections
• Prepares and executes financial plans
• Interprets and supplements financial directives
• Oversees processing, verifies, audits travel claims, estimates travel costs, determines fund availability, and performs follow-up
• Determines propriety and certifies availability of funds
• Schedules, prepares, verifies, and submits financial accounting reports
• Prepares narrative justification to support financial requirements.
• Oversees end of year audit.
• Reviews financial data for accuracy, and resolves discrepancies.
• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, developing, evaluating and terminating Accounting Department associates
• Responsible for managing Finance associates including performance appraisals
• Develops financial systems to facilitate informal management decision-making.
• Designs and implements processes to give managers the necessary financial data to make decisions and monitor performance (e.g., time tracking system).
• Ensures the effective management of financial operations.
• Ensures integrity of cash, receivables, and payables management.
• Executes all major financial transactions
• Monitors the overall financial health of the organization using established metrics.
• Enforces financial discipline/guidelines and controls to key players
• Arranges and oversees completion of all work including posting, processing, and verification of receipts, credit claims, refunds, interest charges, or similar records
• Analyzes and interprets financial data and recommends changes to improve systems and financial performance
• Supervises collections functions and preparation of reports and statistics detailing financial results
• Coordinates schedules, activities and reports with other departments.
• Analyzes, investigates and corrects accounting entries as needed
• Examines, analyzes and interprets records for the purpose of giving advice or preparing statements
• Performs reconciliation of complex transactions
• Proactively develops and maintains effective reporting and management processes to identify, measure, and drive business decisions from key financial…