Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has the primary responsibility to plan, implement, manage, and conduct all of Vienna Beef's financial activities (including, but not limited to: business planning, budgeting, forecasting, and negotiation). The CFO is positioned in the Vienna Beef Senior Management Team and answers to the President & CEO.

The CFO works closely with the Executive Vice President (EVP) of the Human Resources Department to procure insurance and benefits, and ensure employee compliance. This role requires a dynamic leader that will develop relationships with all company department managers and employees. Daily interaction with department managers and supervisors will be necessary to assist short-term business and long-term strategy decisions; consistent interaction with employees and visitation of all facilities on a mandatory basis.

In addition to these responsibilities, the CFO oversees the Controller and Vice President of IT:

The Controller works with the CFO to supervise the Accounting and Credit Departments, with an oversight of 5-7 employees. The Controller's responsibilities entail accounting functions (including Cost Accounting, AP, AR, journal entries, bank reconciliations, timely GL updates and closings [and account analysis], lender reports [and covenant calculations], forecasting, and budgeting). The CFO's responsiblities include overseeing relationship management between Vienna Beef and an outside accounting firm, as well as the production of audited financial statements, tax returns, and any required audits. The CFO assists Ownership (e.g. President & CEO) with the banking relationship.

The VP of Information Technology manages the IT Department, with an oversight of 3-4 employees. Responsibilities include analyzing company requirements and organizing IT resources to internally support Vienna Beef, like obtaining and optomizing hardware, software, and networking assets. IT is responsible for system upgrades, troubleshooting, and problem solving to ensure efficient infrastructures. IT is responsible for the security of all physical and virtual computers and data, including server rooms, virus protection and firewalls. IT is responsible for organizing data storage and creating necessary backups.