Chief Financial Officer
About The Position
The Chief Financial Officer will help lead GPT’s financial strategy, operational rigor, and growth agenda. The role requires extensive travel, including international travel, and regular on-site presence at the facilities in Assumption, Illinois, and Taylorville, Illinois, as well as at GPT’s global headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee. Over the first 18 months, the CFO will build an accountable, high-performance culture and model GPT’s Winning Culture. The role will develop scalable financial infrastructure for a $2.5B+ enterprise, including financial systems, reporting architecture, data capabilities, and best-in-class forecasting, planning, and scenario modeling. The CFO will make finance a forward-looking, insight-generating function and cascade consistent financial measurement standards throughout the business units. The CFO will optimize cash flow and balance-sheet performance by building a high-performing global treasury organization, improving visibility into short- and medium-term cash needs, understanding trapped cash and true cash EBITDA by country, and pursuing efficient cash repatriation and tax optimization across complex global structures. The role will also assist the CEO in driving the operating agenda and operational rigor across business units and regions, supporting business and functional leaders in the goal of doubling the business by 2029 versus 2024 through organic growth and acquisitions.
Responsibilities
- Build an accountable, high-performance culture and model GPT’s Winning Culture.
- Upgrade financial systems, reporting architecture, and data capabilities as necessary to support a $2.5B+ enterprise.
- Establish best-in-class forecasting, planning, and scenario modeling capabilities, including quarterly rolling P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and net debt forecasts, as well as a 13-week forward cash flow forecast.
- Ensure finance is a forward-looking, insight-generating function rather than merely a reporting function.
- Cascade financial measurement standards into business units to drive consistency and clarity in company reporting.
- Create a high-performing global treasury organization and improve visibility into short- and medium-term cash needs.
- Understand trapped cash and true cash EBITDA by country.
- Execute strategies for efficient cash repatriation and tax optimization across complex global structures, leveraging existing legal-entity and intercompany-loan frameworks where suitable.
- Assist the CEO in driving the operating agenda and operational rigor across business units and regions.
- Support Business Presidents and functional leaders in the goal of doubling the business by 2029 versus 2024 through organic growth and acquisitions.
- Help GPT become the best grain and protein business in the world.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
