Strategic Finance Director, Criteo
Global commerce media platform
Open for applications
Global commerce media platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring richer experiences to every consumer by powering the world’s marketers and media owners with trusted and impactful advertising.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience working closely with senior leadership
- Ambitious, entrepreneurial, pragmatic, highly analytical, clear communicator, comfortable with ambiguity,
- Successful track record operating, partnering with and influencing exec-level stakeholders
- Excel at solving unstructured problems
- Able to lead high-performing, cross-functional teams without authority but with positive, energetic leadership
- Have a Global mindset while thinking EMEA!
- Preferred, but not required: Strong knowledge of the adtech industry or in any advertising / marketing related business is a plus
What the job involves
- The Strategic Finance team’s core mission is to help Criteo make more effective decisions
- We aim to build long term company value, and we achieve this by connecting company strategy with world-class execution, setting up financial goals, understanding and sharing the drivers our business, delivering accurate financial results, all while managing risks and keeping an eye out for opportunities
- Partner with EMEA Executive Managing Director in a regional CFO capacity
- Partner with the EMEA Senior Leadership Team to help set the strategic direction for the business
- Drive and implement transformational business plans across the portfolio, including growth, activating new markets, and M&A
- Oversee strategic planning, including investments and annual operating budgets, to ensure optimal utilization of financial resources
- Establish annual financial goals; monitor and analyze performance against these objectives
- Leverage your commercial experience and knowledge to identify areas of strategic interest and frame approaches to tackle them. Operationalize key initiatives
- Ensure linkage to central functions (including Product, Marketing) in execution of country initiatives, deployment of new products/capabilities and alignment with company-wide missions
- Lead cross functional teams to discover, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets to perform strategic analysis and research
Our take
Commerce marketing is a huge business with billions of pounds spent every year on adverts. Companies that help businesses create and deliver more targeted adverts can command a lot of value. Criteo is one company operating in this space.
Criteo is a personalized retargeting company connects 22,000+ marketers and media owners through its Commerce Media Platform, delivering richer consumer experiences. Criteo uses machine-learning technology and data to drive performance, helping marketers and media owners reach their goals.
As marketers are increasingly looking for commerce media solutions, Criteo is operating in a sought-after space. Further, around 73% of media owners seek to optimise media performance as a way to both generate awareness and drive revenue, meaning the company has a significant potential client base. Criteo has continued to make headway here, driving 5 billion ads per day, and is well set to see further adoption of its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2012
$40m
SERIES D
May 2010
$6.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $60.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work and WFH Opportunities
- Learning & Development
- Best-in-Class Health and Wellbeing Benefits & Perks Across Regions
Company values
- We promote diversity in our thinking and in our culture
- We stick together, accomplish together, celebrate together
- We care for each other
- We do the right thing to create a sustainable impact for our clients, our market, and the people that we serve
- We leverage our assets in support of our society and planet
- We drive the change we want to see in the world
Company HQ
New Athens, Paris, France
Articles
Founders
Megan Clarken
(CEO, not founder)Held multiple senior-level roles at Nielson, having joined as a Product Specialist and being promoted to Chief Commercial Officer.
People progressing
Joined as Executive Assistant to the CEO. Moved to be a Communications Associate after 4 years, and Internal Communications Manager after a further 4 years.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Criteo
- Opportunity for All - As an equal opportunity employer, we closed the salary gap between men and women to zero. We also run programs and initiatives which allow all employees to feel they belong and are cared for.
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