Group CFO – Food Industry - Premium Frozen Snacks Manufacturer

An industrial food group in formation, specializing in premium frozen snacking, resulting from the merger of two production companies located in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Following a merger and acquisition transaction scheduled for the first half of 2026, the future Group will represent:

• Approximately 40 million euros in revenue
• 3 factories, representing 13,000 m² of production space

In this context of growth and structuring, we are creating a Group CFO position.

Your role

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will be responsible for all administrative and financial dimensions of the future Group, with a key role in the consolidation and professionalization of the two entities.

Your main responsibilities:

1. Financial Management & Strategy

• Build and drive the financial strategy in alignment with the Group's development plan
• Establish and ensure reliable budgets, forecasts, reporting and dashboards (P&L, cash, investments)
• Manage working capital, cash flow and key financial KPIs
• Support Management in investment, restructuring and organizational decisions
• Participate in securing subsidies and optimizing investment financing
• Deliver regular and reliable reporting to the Board and shareholders
• Structure and strengthen management control across industrial sites
• Monitor and optimize margins, production costs and profitability by activity
• Analyze financial performance by site, product line and customer, and propose optimization plans

3. Accounting Oversight

• Lead and upskill the administrative and financial teams of both companies
• Ensure reliable financial reporting, quality of closings and deadline compliance

4. Administrative & Tax Management

• Oversee insurance contracts
• Optimize tax efficiency and manage relationships with auditors and banks

5. Structuring & Transformation

• Establish Group processes, tools and best practices
• Lead transformation projects: digitalization, function centralization, paradigm shifts
• Support post-acquisition integration and potential future growth through acquisition
• Be a genuine business partner to the CEO and site managers

Desired Profile

• Advanced degree in finance, accounting, management or audit (Bachelor's +5 equivalent, business school, Master's in accounting, DSCG, etc.)
• Proven experience as CFO or Financial Director in an industrial SME or mid-market company, ideally in food
• Strong skills in performance management, industrial management control and accounting oversight
• Experience in structuring / external growth / company integration appreciated
• Entrepreneurial mindset: capable of building, getting hands-on and evolving the organization
• Excellent analytical, synthesis and communication skills
• Natural leadership, ability to engage and structure multi-site teams
• Fluent English, both spoken and written (international context / external stakeholders)

What we offer

• A key, operational and strategic role at the heart of creating an industrial Group
• High level of autonomy and responsibility, in direct contact with the CEO and Board
• The opportunity to build a Group finance function virtually from scratch
• A human-scale environment, in growth mode, with concrete operational challenges

Package

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Company car
• Excellent health insurance and associated benefits
• Possibility to acquire equity in the near future