Co-CEO - Bonn, Deutschland - EIT Culture & Creativity

Beschreibung

CO-CEO Full-time position at the EIT Culture & Creativity (German GmbH) Headquarter in Cologne, Germany.

About the position

The CO-CEO is member of the Board of Managing Directors of the EIT Culture & Creativity. The CO-CEO is responsible for providing strategic leadership and ensuring the financial health and long-term financial sustainability of the company. In this critical role, the successful applicant has a deep understanding of managing public and private financing of multi-national organization and partnerships and thinks strategically to balance a business mindset with societal impact commitment. He facilitates thus the development of both the EIT Culture & Creativity GmbH as well as the EIT CCSI e.V.

The candidate has distinctive leadership skills and is an effective communicator to the external funders and investors as well as partners of the EIT Culture & Creativity, fosters a culture of collaboration, teamwork with empowerment and empathy aligned with the values of EIT CC GmbH. The candidate has strong foresight, problem-solving and decision-making skills. This role requires a leader who can not only manage finances and investments, but lead a business to be financially resilient in the course of difficult times and changing frameworks. CO-CEO responsibilities include shaping the financial strategy and business models of the EIT CC GmbH, managing its financial resources (public grants as well as private financing) effectively and risk averse, and ensuring alignment between financial, investment and operational activities across all parts of the organization.

The CO-CEO and finance team of the EIT CC GmbH supports and provides services for the financial strategy, management and accounting of the EIT CCSI e.V. to avoid double structures and/or teams in finance. The successful candidate will operate as part of the Board of Managing Directors (BMD) under the Rules of Procedures, set by the Supervisory Board (SB) of the EIT Culture & Creativity, to ensure financial decisions foster the overall business development.

The BMD reports to the SB This entails establishing precise KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and fostering a culture of teamwork, proactive and creative problem solving and accountability for the EIT CC GmbH and EIT CCSI e.V. The successful candidate will also play a crucial part in creating, developing and implementing the KICs Strategic Agenda and Business Plan by offering financial and controlling guidance to drive ongoing development and guide decision-making. Specific responsibilities of the CO-CEO include but are not limited to.

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Strategic & Leadership Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Play a key role in the company's strategic planning by providing industry knowledge, expertise, leadership, and financial analysis to support the company's growth and profitability.

• Financial Leadership: Lead, continuously develop and manage the company's financial sustainability strategy and mechanism, including the services for the EIT CCSI e.V.

• Operational Leadership: Provide leadership and direction to the operational departments within the organization, and ensure that these are working efficiently and effectively to meet the company's objectives and to contribute to the company ́s overall success Lead the implementation of the organisational strategy and plan to achieve the organization's goals in compliance with International Standards and the EIT AntiFraud Strategy.

• Team Management: Lead the finance and operations team and provide guidance and coaching as well as control and empowerment to its team members to contribute proactively to the company's financial sustainability and operational capacity. Engage actively to build a collaborative and diverse team across the whole company built on EIT Culture & Creativity values.

Responsibilities - extract

• EIT Specific Responsibilities & Compliance: Lead the delivery of financial reporting to EIT for the EIT grant, align cost reporting with EIT Grant requirements and KPIs. The CO-CEO ensures a financially sustainable organization with multiple revenue streams, transparency regarding the financial ramifications of strategic decisionsLead on effectively communicating EIT Culture & Creativity's financial sustainability strategy of EIT CC GmbH and EIT CCSI e.V.

• Financial Planning and Analysis: Lead on developing and implementing financial plans, budgets, and forecasts that support the EIT CC GmbH and EIT CCSI e.V. goals and objectives. Provide strategic advice to other senior executives on operational and financial makers that impact the company's strategic direction.

• Oversee for the EIT CC GmbH and the EIT CCSI e.V. the execution of the financial strategy, delivering monthly, quarterly and yearly budgets, cash flow reports, financial statements, balance sheets, forwardthinking strategic projections, and monitoring mechanisms for revenue generation and budget expenditure. Ensure effective management and safeguarding of corporate assets.

• Risk Management: Lead on identifying and mitigating financial risks that could impact the company's profitability, financial stability, or financial credibility reputation. Insure proper documentation and decision-making processes on risk management. Work closely and inform timely with other executives and functional leaders to develop risk management strategies.

• Financial Reporting and Compliance: Lead on ensuring that the EIT CC GmbH and EIT CCSI e.V. financial statements and reports are accurate, complete, and comply with all applicable accounting standards and regulations. Lead on annual audits for the group including its subsidiaries across Europe. Provide a monthly finance report to the BMD, Executive Board and Supervisory Board.

• Capital Management: Building the company's capital structure and ensuring that the company has sufficient capital to invest from Non EIT sources.

• Develop and Lead the Shareholding Strategy: Ensuring that companies receiving private investments or public grants (EIT and Non-EIT ) provide long term financial sustainability and become a strong base for shareholdings of the EIT Culture & Creativity.

• Lead on developing and implementing additional (Non-EIT) financing instruments and external fund raising for the sector from EIT Culture & Creativity GmbH. Lead on private and public funds to set up EIT Culture & Creativity managed VC funds for the sector.

• Stakeholder Management: Lead on all stakeholder management relating to finance function e.g., funders, auditors, bankers, statutory bodies, regulators etc. and Engagement with partners of the EIT CCSI e.V. or the EIT CC GmbH must embrace the full diversity of types of players.

• Management of the centrally steered finance system: Lead on ensuring all finance functions are working effectively for the EIT CCSI e.V., the EIT CC GmbH and all its 6 subsidiaries in 6 nations, on consolidation of subsidiary accounts and compliance with national regulations and on monitoring external service providers and their KPIs (e.g. Netsuite, Travel & expenses, Payments, KYC, tax advisors, banks)

Review all requirements in the job vacancy here:

EIT-CC_CO-CEO-Job-Vacancy_2024_Final-1.pdf (eit-culture-)

We offer:

• a competitive payment between and Euro per year including a bonus based on overall performance and project specific performance with a yearly appraisal scheme.

• a managing directors service agreement under German law.

• an opportunity to shape a company from the start as it is being built, straight internal communication, low hierarchies, and a European mission to work for.

• an energetic atmosphere with transparent structures and a dynamic and growing team

• modern and well-located office facilities at the Media Park in Cologne.

• Expected start as soon as possible, at the latest in September 2024.

Location

The position is based in the EIT Culture & Creativity head office in Cologne (Germany). The Co-CEO is expected to be present in the HQ according to the EIT Culture & Creativity standards for home office work (at least 3 days of work per week in the company office in Cologne, in the first year 4 days per week).

Application process and additional information

A complete application should consist of

(i) Europass Curriculum Vitae

(ii) a motivation letter describing briefly how you meet the criteria outlined and your vision for the role (no longer than 2 DIN-A4 pages).

The application should be sent via e-mail to: -culture- with subject header "HR2024 CO-CEO EIT Culture & Creativity – surname_name".

Format

CV and motivational letter in two separate files. File name: Name the files according to the model "EITCC_CO-CEO_ surname_name_CV" and "EITCC_COCEO_ surname_name_ML". Maria Novak would name the file, EITCC_CO-CEO_Novak_Maria_CV or ML.

Important: the application should be written in English. Only complete applications will be evaluated (full curriculum vitae and motivation letter, in two separated files)

The job vacancy will be open until 20th of May 2024 at 01:00 pm CET.

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