Chief Financial Officer - 1736491

Some CFO 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 hiring our first true Chief Financial Officer.

This is an opportunity for a strategic finance leader to step into an organization that is big enough to matter, but not so institutionalized that everything has already been built.

If you are energized by the idea of creating, improving, influencing, and helping an ambitious 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 greater visibility into the future.

We want a CFO who can help us answer questions such as:

• Where are we making the greatest returns on our investments?
• What is truly driving our margins and profitability?
• Where may money be leaking from the business?
• What can we afford to do and what should we prioritize?
• How do we give department leaders appropriate budgets and financial guardrails?
• What are the early indicators that tell us something is moving off track?
• 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 decide what to do next.

What You'll Have the Opportunity to Build

As CFO, you will report directly to the CEO and become a key member of the executive leadership team.

You will have the opportunity to shape the future finance organization and build capabilities that support the company's next stage of growth.

Your impact will include:

• Building meaningful budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Developing financial dashboards, KPIs, and early-warning systems.
• Bringing greater visibility to margins, profitability, EBITDA, and cash flow.
• Helping leadership evaluate investments, competing priorities, and resource allocation.
• Creating appropriate financial guardrails that allow department leaders to operate with greater autonomy.
• Identifying opportunities to improve cost controls and financial performance.
• Using financial information to influence operational and strategic decisions.
• Evaluating technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools that can improve the efficiency and accuracy of finance and accounting.
• Assessing and building the finance and accounting team needed to support continued growth.

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.

First, You Need to Know Accounting

We are looking for a strategic CFO, but strategy must be built on technical credibility.

You should understand how a strong accounting department operates.

You need to know 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, and providing meaningful guidance to the team.

The accounting foundation is already in place. Your responsibility will be to protect it, understand it, 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 understanding manufacturing finance and cost accounting principles is important.

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

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

The right CFO will spend time understanding how our products are sold, how they are made, where costs enter the business, and which operational levers have the greatest impact on profitability.

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 CFO will have a unique opportunity to work alongside an experienced finance 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 live through the business cycle before assuming complete ownership of the function.

We believe this creates an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished Controller, Vice President of Finance, or senior finance leader who is ready to step into their first CFO position.

Experienced CFOs who are excited by the opportunity to build and create meaningful impact are equally encouraged to explore the role.

What We're Looking For

We expect the successful candidate to bring:

• Progressive financial and accounting leadership experience within manufacturing.
• A strong technical accounting foundation.
• Demonstrated experience with FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
• A strong understanding of margins, profitability, EBITDA, cash flow, and operational cost drivers.
• Experience with ERP systems and using financial data to improve business visibility.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting.
• The ability to partner effectively with executive and operational leaders.
• Experience developing or improving financial reporting, dashboards, and KPIs.
• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• CPA and/or advanced degree preferred.

Experience within a privately held, entrepreneurial, or growth-oriented 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.

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 are curious about how a business actually works.

You want to understand why margins move, where cash is going, how operations affect profitability, and whether an investment is producing the expected return.

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, learn from the outcome, and adjust.

Most importantly, you want to make an impact.

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 have the opportunity to build your team, shape the finance function, influence executive decisions, and help guide an ambitious organization through its next stage of growth.

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.