Fractional CFO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Assist clients in enhancing their enterprise value and act as a reliable initial contact for founders.

• Increase earnings by optimizing contribution margin, advertising expenditure, pricing strategies, inventory, and cash flow.

• Foster sustainable organic growth with favorable customer economics.

• Demonstrate earnings quality through consistent, contractual economics, robust LTV, and margins.

• Mitigate risks associated with customers, channels, suppliers, and operations.

• Oversee a portfolio of roughly 10 clients at full capacity.

• Conduct client onboarding, which includes profit tracking, constraint analysis, financial modeling, and a Growth Economics Audit.

• Develop financial plans that encompass revenue, COGS, purchasing, payroll, overhead, cash flow, budgets, balance sheets, and multi-year projections.

• Create departmental scorecards and frameworks for capital allocation.

• Facilitate weekly working sessions and scorecard evaluations with founders.

• Analyze monthly closures and financial models, providing clear cash flow assessments.

• Provide guidance on advertising investments, inventory acquisitions, hiring practices, and funding decisions.

• Evaluate, diagnose, and model responses to adverse metric changes.

• Supervise and guide the work of analysts and accountants.

• Respond to client inquiries on the same day.

• Support interim CFO assignments, lender communications, investor updates, board meetings, data room management, quality-of-earnings preparations, sales calls, and client proposals.

• Prepare clients for interactions with lenders, investors, due diligence processes, and exits.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in finance, including roles as a CFO, VP of Finance, or head of FP&A in a growth-oriented company, or a background in private equity, investment banking, or transaction advisory with real operational experience.

• Proficient in three-statement, driver-based modeling skills, easily explainable to individuals who are not fond of spreadsheets.

• Experience working with lenders, investors, or acquirers during fundraising, refinancing, quality of earnings reviews, due diligence, or exits.

• Insight into the factors that influence multiples and experience in helping businesses improve them.

• Fluent in business English, both spoken and written.

• Capable of coaching and empathizing; founders and CEOs have acted upon your recommendations.

• Residing in the US, Canada, the UK, or Europe, with significant overlap with North American business hours.

• Preference for experience in Ecommerce, DTC, or CPG sectors.

• Preferred experience with contribution margin, CAC and payback, cohorts, inventory and cash conversion, Shopify, and Amazon.

• Possession of CPA, CA, ACCA, CFA, or an MBA.

• Experience in managing a weekly operating cadence (EOS, scorecards, L10s, or similar methodologies).

• Background in coaching or managing analysts and accountants.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive senior-level compensation aligned with market standards.

• Partnership model with potential for growth alongside the clients you serve.

• Fully remote work opportunities.

• A supportive team and an operational system to manage every client effectively.

• Generous vacation and time-off policies.

• Company-wide closure between Christmas and New Year.

• A genuine pathway to partnership.