The role as CFO offers a unique opportunity to become part of a private equity owned start-up that entered next phase in their evolution. The CFO will provide leadership across the organization and be a key player in tasks relating to financial deliveries as well as business development including identifying acquisition subjects and executing due diligence processes. Trainor Group foresees a great growth potential, and with the necessary financial resources, and a professional board of directors, they are ready to expand geographically and in sales. An internationally minded CFO will become an integral part in securing that Trainor Group can realize their ambitions.

Responsibility areas

As CFO, you will enter Trainor Group at an interesting stage in their evolution. They are private equity owned and are ready for sales. In connection with ambitious growth plans, you will focus on business finance, investment, and capital finance, and on reporting to the board and private equity. To assist in the daily financial operations, you will be supported by an experienced finance team.

Next to growth, the CFO will support and actively involved, when it concerns the continuous digitalization of the customer journey and regarding becoming more efficient. You will also work on merging the various Trainor companies’ processes, creating synergies, and avoiding silos. In connection with acquisitions, you must be able to evaluate the value that the acquisitions can bring to the “community”. Other selected responsibilities can be to:

• Prepare material for board meetings together with CEO, CCO and managers, with focus on financial issues, performance, and investments.
• Develop appropriate and accurate quarterly financial estimates (P&L, balance sheets, cash flow), and annual strategic plans.
• Head M&A activities in connection with due diligence processes and RoI, and when entering new markets, you will set up local financial structures.
• Coordinate and execute analyses of profitability and costs of development and execution.
• Manage the process for major capital expenditure and disposals and be key contact to bank relations.

Whether you will be a success depends on your skills, but also your ability to balance between diving deep and operating at a strategic level, and not least, also be a strong advisor about business development and investments. In other words, your skill in providing leadership across finance, processes, people, and the business.

Personal qualities

As Trainor Group’s new CFO, you are a leader with a strong interest in leading, motivating, developing, and delegating to others, and equally, you are motivated by engaging with your stakeholders, where you demonstrate a social orientation. Your communication is clear, informative, adjusted to your audience, and with the right amount of passion to make you appear sincere and honest. In such roles, we always ask for the Octopussy, who can play violin under water, and we also do this now. Therefore, you are both structured, process-minded, analytical, and inquiring, flexible, agile, and with a strong team-spirit.

Qualifications

Professionally, you are as equally diverse and multi-faceted:

• Experience from a similar role in a start- or scale-up with an investor set-up or a private equity owned company.
• International experience in reporting, compliance, M&As, and the various controlling disciplines.
• A seasoned leader and preferably with experience from having managed managers.
• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Auditing, Finance, or related.
• Fluent in English, and perhaps one of the Scandinavian languages, and can adapt to a Scandinavian work culture.
• Strong skills in MS Office, Excel, and PP, and with a broad system understanding, with specific focus on finance modules and experience from digitizing finance processes.

Why you should join Trainor Group

As CFO, you become part of a growing company with global ambitions that have proprietary digital platforms, loyal customers, happy users, and the financial resources to invest in and realize their ambitions. To ensure this, they need a co-pilot to their CEO that can secure the right dispositions and decisions, and who can support growth while at the same time scale-up the organization. If you join, you get 100 skilled and engaged colleagues for whom their jobs are more than jobs, and where they truly believe that they make a difference to the market for safety learning – and thereby saving lives.

We offer:

• 100% permanent position
• Growth and development opportunities on a professional and personal level
• Highly competent colleagues, a supercharged team and a collaborate workplace
• Location: Remote in central Europe or at Head Office in Tønsberg, Norway
• Competitive terms and conditions
• Travel will be required
• Make the world a safer place