The Chief Financial Officer is among the top executives of a firm who is responsible for managing the financial risks the firm has. This position entails financial planning, record-keeping, data analysis and financial reporting to higher authorities mostly the chief executive officer or the board of directors. I have worked for the company for fifteen years in the finance departments, five years as a financial officer. I believe with the expansion and restructuring taking place, I am well placed to fill this new position. This paper explains my various roles, qualifications and leadership styles that will benefit the company in this position. The position of a chief financial officer is a new opening with the company, it has resulted from the expansions and restructuring taking place within the company. This position entails the management of the company’s financial risks and evaluation of accounting and financing procedures it follows. I have worked as a financial officer for the company and in this paper I have explained my qualifications to justify my position. This position requires the holder to posses a bachelors and a master’s degree in a finance related field, a Masters of Business Administration requirement, and a certified accountancy qualification. Apart from possessing the above requirements, my ten years experience with the company in the position of a financial advisor, placed me in a good position to understand the risks it faces. The major roles I carried out entailed maintaining accounts and updating financial policies of the company. In addition my roles extended to overseeing the company’s financial and accounting reporting systems, and taxing systems. In this field, I was responsible for preparing the tax reports, and discussing quarterly company reports with the board of directors for the company’s progress. Other roles entailed directing the company’s budget to meet its goals, overseeing the investment of funds and management of risks, supervising cash management activities, and executing capital-raising strategies for purposes of expansion and restructuring of the company. Working in this position exposed me to various leadership style models, one of them is Kurt Lewin’s leadership model based on Behavioral theories (Robbins & Judge, 2007, p. 78). This model describes three forms of leadership styles, which are democratic, autocratic or laissez-faire (Yukl, 2006, p. 123). This leadership framework is dependent upon the team leader’s decision making behavior, when coupled with various situations. The autocratic leadership style is where the leaders make decisions without even consulting or involving their teams. The team leader is the sole decision maker and every team member has to abide by the decision made by the team leader. This style is applicable where the leader is faced with situation that needs urgent solutions through quick decision making in which group decision making, will result into loss of time and may not be a successful outcome (Mintzberg, Lampel, Quinn, & Ghoshal, 2003, p. 89). The autocratic leader provides a clear expectation of what he expects to be done by the group, how and when it should be done. The major weakness of this style is that it results into less creativity among te