Finance Generalist Director Eastern Europe

CEVA Logistics provides global supply chain solutions to connect people, products, and providers all around the world. Present in 170+ countries and with more than 110,000 employees spread over 1,500 sites, we are proud to be a Top 5 global 3PL.

We believe that our employees are the key to our success. We want to engage and empower our diverse, global team to co-create value with our customers through our solutions in contract logistics and air, ocean, ground, and finished vehicle transport. That is why CEVA Logistics offers a dynamic and exceptional work environment that fosters personal growth, innovation, and continuous improvement.

At CEVA Logistics, we Rise in Motion.  Your career is always on the move, growing as fast and as far as your ambition takes you. Join a global team of nearly 200 nationalities, shaping the future of global trade, moving essential goods, forging new paths, and pushing boundaries to serve an ever-changing world. The pace is fast, the challenges are real, but the rewards are greater: growth, purpose, and the chance to make a meaningful impact. This is more than a job. It’s a journey on which you rise. 

WHAT WILL YOU BE RESPONSIBLE FOR?

The Chief Financial Officer, Eastern Europe, is responsible for leading the finance function across the Eastern Europe perimeter, ensuring strong financial governance, performance management, compliance, and decision support for the business.

The role is responsible for overseeing financial planning and analysis, accounting, controlling, cash management, risk management, and business partnering activities, while supporting profitable growth, operational efficiency, and alignment with regional and group finance standards.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

• Lead the finance function across Eastern Europe, ensuring effective financial management, strong governance, and alignment with CEVA’s business strategy and financial objectives.
• Act as a strategic business partner to Products, providing financial insight, challenge, and support in decision-making, investments, business cases, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis processes across the perimeter. Ensure timely, accurate, and actionable reporting of results, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Monitor and improve financial performance, including revenue, gross margin, (R-EBIT), cash flow, and cost productivity. Drive corrective actions where performance deviates.
• Ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting, management reporting, and statutory reporting, in line with internal policies and external requirements.
• Ensure compliance with CEVA policies, accounting standards, tax and legal requirements, internal control frameworks, and audit expectations across all countries within the scope.
• Lead cash flow visibility and improvement actions, with strong focus on receivables, payables, customer credit risk, credit limits, collections, bad debt prevention, and working capital optimization across the business.
• Identify, assess, and manage financial risks related to operations, commercial activity, investments, tax, compliance, and business continuity.
• Lead, develop, and coordinate finance teams across the Eastern Europe perimeter. Build strong capabilities in controlling, analysis, reporting, and business support.
• Drive finance process standardization, automation, reporting improvements, and performance management tools to enhance efficiency, transparency, and decision quality.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or equivalent. Fluent in English.
• An asset: CPA, ACCA, CIMA, MBA, or equivalent professional qualification. Additional Eastern European languages.
• Significant senior finance leadership experience in an international, multi-country environment. Proven experience in FP&A, controlling, financial reporting, business partnering, and team leadership. Strong experience supporting operational and commercial decision-making.
• An asset: Experience in logistics, supply chain, transport, or contract logistics. Experience in matrix organizations and transformation environments.
• Strong knowledge of financial planning, management reporting, internal controls, accounting principles, compliance, and business performance management. Strong analytical and financial modelling skills. Good understanding of cash flow and working capital drivers.
• An asset: Experience with ERP, BI, and finance transformation tools. Exposure to M&A, post-merger integration, restructuring, or shared service models.
• Strong leadership, high level of business acumen, ability to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and communicate complex financial matters clearly. Strong decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
• An asset: Change leadership, cross-cultural management, and executive presentation skills.

Frequent travel across Eastern Europe may be required.

As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation. 

Please note:  Legitimate CEVA Logistics recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn or via an official company email address: firstname.lastname@cevalogistics.com. We recommend that you do not respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers from people with whom you are unfamiliar.