Some senior finance opportunities are about fixing a broken company.

This isn't one of them.

We are a healthy, profitable, established manufacturing company with more than 40 years of history, approximately $30 million in annual revenue, and a clear goal to reach $50 million over the next five years.

The foundation is strong. The company is growing. The leadership team has evolved. Now, we are ready to transform how finance supports the business.

We are seeking a Vice President of Finance / Head of Finance to serve as the company's senior financial executive, report directly to the CEO, and take ownership of the entire finance function.

This is an opportunity for a highly analytical, operationally minded finance leader to step into an organization that is big enough to offer meaningful complexity, but not so institutionalized that everything has already been built.

If you are energized by the idea of creating, improving, influencing, getting into the details, and helping an ambitious manufacturing company scale, we should talk.

Why This Role, and Why Now?

Over the past several years, we have made significant investments in our leadership team, operations, sales, marketing, and product strategy.

The business has become larger and more complex. Our leaders are bringing new ideas, identifying opportunities, and asking increasingly sophisticated questions about where and how we invest.

Finance now needs to evolve alongside the organization.

Our accounting foundation is strong. We have established processes, reliable financial reporting, and a long-tenured Vice President of Finance who has spent more than a decade building the financial infrastructure that supports the company today.

What we need next is a senior finance leader who can preserve that foundation while building a more sophisticated finance and FP&A capability around it.

We want greater visibility into questions such as:

• What is driving our margins and profitability by product, customer, and sales channel?

• Where are we making the greatest returns on our investments?

• Where may money be leaking from the business?

• How effectively are we managing cash, inventory, and working capital?

• What can we afford to do, and where should we prioritize our resources?

• How do we give department leaders meaningful budgets and appropriate financial guardrails?

• Which KPIs and early indicators will tell us when something is moving off track?

• How should we evaluate capital expenditures and other significant investments?

• How can we use data, technology, and financial insight to make better decisions faster?

We don't need someone to simply tell us what happened last month.

We want someone who can help us understand why it happened, what it means, and what we should do next.

What You'll Own

As VP of Finance / Head of Finance, you will report directly to the CEO, serve as the company's senior financial executive, and become a key member of the leadership team.

You will own the finance function while helping build the capabilities needed to support the company's next stage of growth.

Your responsibilities and impact will include:

• Leading FP&A, including annual budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and ongoing performance analysis.

• Developing deeper visibility into product, customer, and channel profitability.

• Strengthening manufacturing finance and cost accounting capabilities.

• Analyzing margins, cost drivers, pricing, and operational performance to identify opportunities for improved profitability.

• Managing and forecasting cash flow and working-capital requirements.

• Developing stronger analysis around inventory levels, inventory investment, turns, and related financial impacts.

• Building meaningful financial dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting for the CEO and leadership team.

• Establishing early-warning indicators that help leaders identify performance issues before they become larger problems.

• Overseeing accounting operations, internal controls, financial reporting, reconciliations, and the financial close.

• Evaluating capital expenditures, business investments, and strategic initiatives through disciplined ROI and financial analysis.

• Helping leadership evaluate competing priorities and allocate resources effectively.

• Creating financial guardrails that allow department leaders to operate with greater accountability and autonomy.

• Identifying opportunities to improve cost controls, processes, and overall financial performance.

• Using financial analysis to influence operational and strategic decisions across the company.

• Evaluating technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools that can improve the efficiency, accuracy, and usefulness of finance and accounting.

• Assessing and developing the finance and accounting team needed to support continued growth.

This is not a role for someone who wants to operate only at the executive level and hand the details to someone else.

You should be equally comfortable discussing strategy with the CEO, analyzing a profitability issue, reviewing a forecast, questioning an inventory trend, evaluating an investment, and working with the accounting team to understand what's happening inside the numbers.

A Finance Leader Who Understands Operations

You will partner closely with leaders across Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Product Development.

We value constructive conflict and thoughtful debate. You should be comfortable challenging an idea, questioning a cost, and asking leaders to build a business case.

Bring the data. Explain your thinking. Make the case.

You will have a CEO who is willing to listen, invest, and take calculated risks when the information supports the decision.

The most successful person in this role will not view finance as a department operating separately from the business.

You will want to understand how the business actually works—and use that understanding to make it better.

Accounting Still Matters

We are looking for a strategic and analytical finance leader, but strategy must be built on technical credibility.

You should understand how a strong accounting department operates.

You need to understand internal controls, financial reporting, reconciliations, close processes, cash management, and the systems required to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and on time.

You should be capable of walking into an accounting department, understanding how the work flows, identifying issues, asking the right questions, and providing meaningful guidance to the team.

You don't necessarily need to be the person performing every accounting task.

You do need to be capable of owning the function.

The accounting foundation is already in place. Your responsibility will be to protect it, understand it, strengthen it where appropriate, and build upon it.

Understanding Our Business

We are a custom, made-to-order manufacturer operating within a specialized, design-driven industry.

Our products are built to order rather than produced for inventory. Our business includes a national independent sales representative network, commission structures, designer royalties, dealer rebate programs, imported materials, freight considerations, and changing tariff impacts.

Our manufacturing environment is more light industrial and assembly focused than traditional heavy manufacturing, but manufacturing finance and cost accounting experience are important for this role.

We don't expect you to arrive knowing our industry.

We do expect you to be curious enough to learn it.

The right finance leader will spend time understanding how our products are sold, how they are made, how inventory and materials move through the business, where costs enter the organization, and which operational levers have the greatest impact on profitability and cash flow.

A Thoughtful Transition

Our current Vice President of Finance is preparing for a planned retirement after 13 years with the company.

He isn't being pushed out.

He isn't guarding his territory.

And he isn't waiting for someone to fail.

He wants the next finance leader to succeed.

The incoming VP of Finance / Head of Finance will have a unique opportunity to work alongside an experienced leader who knows the company, its systems, its history, and the nuances of the business.

You will have time to learn the organization, understand the existing processes, and experience the business cycle before assuming complete ownership of the function.

This provides an unusual opportunity: the ability to inherit a stable financial foundation without being limited by the way things have always been done.

What We're Looking For

We expect the successful candidate to bring:

• Progressive financial and accounting leadership experience within a manufacturing environment.

• Significant FP&A experience, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing finance and cost accounting.

• Experience analyzing product, customer, and/or channel profitability.

• Strong understanding of margins, EBITDA, cost drivers, and operational profitability.

• Experience managing and forecasting cash flow and working capital.

• Experience analyzing inventory and its impact on financial and operational performance.

• Experience developing KPIs, dashboards, and management reporting that help leaders make decisions.

• Strong accounting knowledge, including financial reporting, controls, reconciliations, and financial close.

• Experience evaluating capital expenditures, ROI, and significant business investments.

• The ability to translate financial information into practical recommendations for non-financial leaders.

• Experience with ERP systems and using financial and operational data to improve business visibility.

• The ability to operate both strategically and hands-on.

• The confidence and communication skills to serve as a trusted financial partner to the CEO and leadership team.

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.

CPA, CMA, MBA, or another relevant advanced credential is valued but is not the defining requirement for this opportunity.

Experience within a privately held, entrepreneurial, or growth-oriented manufacturing organization is highly desirable.

We are particularly interested in finance leaders who have worked within organizations ranging from approximately $25 million to $100 million in revenue and understand the realities of leading finance in a mid-sized business.

Who Will Thrive Here?

You may be a strong fit if you are a builder rather than a maintainer.

You are technically credible but don't want to spend the rest of your career simply closing the books and producing financial statements.

You love FP&A and enjoy turning financial and operational data into insight.

You are curious about how a manufacturing business actually works.

You want to understand why margins move, which products and customers create value, where cash is tied up, what inventory is telling us, how operations affect profitability, and whether an investment is producing the expected return.

You are comfortable moving between the strategic and the tactical.

One day you may be helping the CEO evaluate a major investment. The next, you may be digging into an unexpected margin variance or working with the accounting team to understand a process.

Neither feels beneath you.

You are comfortable sitting across from a CEO and saying, "I don't think we should spend that money, and here's why."

You don't need every decision to be risk-free. You understand that good companies make thoughtful decisions with the best information available, measure the outcome, learn, and adjust.

Most importantly, you want to make an impact.

What This Role Is—and Isn't

This is the top finance role in the company.

At the same time, we are intentional about calling it VP of Finance / Head of Finance rather than CFO.

At our current size and stage, we don't need to build the role around capital markets, M&A, complex financing structures, outside investors, or other responsibilities often associated with a traditional CFO position.

We would rather hire an exceptional manufacturing finance leader whose strengths closely match the needs of our business today.

That means someone who is outstanding at FP&A, manufacturing finance, profitability analysis, cash and working capital management, inventory, accounting oversight, and strategic decision support.

As the company grows toward our $50 million goal and the complexity of the finance function evolves, this position has the potential to grow with it—including the potential to become a CFO-level role when the needs of the organization warrant it.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This company is entering an important chapter.

We are established, profitable, and financially healthy. You are not walking into a turnaround or being asked to rebuild a broken accounting function.

At the same time, there is a tremendous amount left to create.

You will inherit a strong foundation and have the opportunity to build the next generation of finance around it.

You will have the ability to improve how we forecast, understand profitability, manage cash and inventory, evaluate investments, measure performance, and make decisions.

You will work directly with the CEO.

You will have a seat at the table.

And you will have the opportunity to grow as the company grows.

For the right finance leader, this isn't simply the next job.

It's an opportunity to build something you can point to years from now and say:

I helped create that.