
Chief Financial Officer
Emerson
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Job Level
About the role
- Serve as a strategic partner to the CEO, offering complementary expertise and constructive challenge
- Develop subject-matter expertise across competitive, economic, financial, regulatory, and risk environments
- Collaborate with the executive team to align capital, resources, and priorities with strategic objectives
- Lead finance and legal strategies, processes, systems, tools, and initiatives aligned to short- and long-term plans
- Partner with business unit and functional leaders on strategy development and execution
- Build and develop high-performing teams, driving continuous improvement and succession planning
- Lead inorganic growth initiatives (M&A, divestitures, geographic and capital investments)
- Optimize capital structure and manage interest rate strategy and hedging
- Ensure regulatory compliance and oversee timely and accurate tax filings and reporting
Requirements
- Proven strategic partner to a CEO with an ownership mindset for growth initiatives
- Global or multi-regional executive leadership experience
- Demonstrated track record of profitable organic and inorganic growth
- Experience scaling through geographic and product/service expansion
- Strong understanding of marketing, innovation, and professional services economics
- History of cost optimization and continuous improvement
- High integrity, sound judgment, and disciplined risk-taking
- Experience managing compensation, short-term, and long-term incentive plans
- MBA and/or CPA preferred.
Benefits
- Donates 10% of annual profits to charities supporting youth and education
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
financial strategyregulatory compliancecapital structure optimizationinterest rate strategyhedgingM&Adivestiturestax filingscost optimizationcontinuous improvement
Soft Skills
strategic partnershipleadershipteam developmentjudgmentrisk-takingcollaborationownership mindsetinnovationcommunicationexecutive presence
Certifications
MBACPA