Vice President Finance (Cleveland)
Vice President of Finance (de-facto CFO) Comp: $180k-$275k, 30-40% bonus LTIP Finatal is partnering with a leading private equity-backed, vertically integrated consumer products and eCommerce business to appoint a Vice President of Finance . Reporting directly to the CEO, this individual will serve as the company's senior-most finance leader and a key strategic partner to the executive team, Board of Directors, and private equity sponsor. This is a unique opportunity to step into a true de facto CFO role , with broad responsibility across Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Risk Management, Legal, and HR. The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping the company's financial strategy, enhancing operational performance, and supporting its next phase of growth and value creation. While the position has enterprise-wide leadership responsibilities, a key mandate will be to elevate and build the FP&A function. As a result, this role requires a hands-on finance executive who is comfortable operating as both strategist and operator, personally driving budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, KPI reporting, and financial decision support while building the foundation for a scalable finance organization. Key Responsibilities: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO, leadership team, Board of Directors, and private equity sponsor. Lead all core finance functions, including FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, cash management, and financial reporting. Build, lead, mentor, and develop the finance and accounting organization, establishing a high-performing team, scalable processes, and a culture of accountability, analytical rigor, and continuous improvement. Own the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of the monthly close, financial reporting, internal controls, audit, tax, and compliance processes, ensuring best-in-class financial stewardship and governance. Own Board, lender, investor, and sponsor reporting, delivering clear insights on business performance, liquidity, strategic initiatives, and value creation priorities. Manage treasury operations, banking relationships, credit facilities, debt covenant compliance, working capital, and liquidity planning, including ownership of the 13-week cash flow forecast. Build and professionalize the FP&A function, establishing best-in-class forecasting, budgeting, reporting, KPI tracking, and business performance management processes. Provide financial leadership around demand planning, inventory productivity, gross margin expansion, and profitability analysis across brands, channels, customers, and SKUs, helping drive operational efficiency and informed resource allocation decisions. Partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, and Marketing leadership to drive growth, profitability, inventory optimization, and data-driven decision making. Provide executive oversight of Legal, HR, and Risk Management functions. Act as executive sponsor for the company's ongoing NetSuite implementation and broader finance transformation initiatives, helping build the systems, controls, and infrastructure required to support future growth. Support strategic planning, pricing initiatives, commercial decision making, M&A evaluations, due diligence, acquisition integration activities, and post-acquisition integration of systems, reporting, financial processes, and controls and other value creation projects. Ideal Background: 10 years of progressive finance leadership experience spanning FP&A, accounting, treasury, and cash flow management. Experience as a CFO, VP Finance, Head of Finance, or a Finance Director serving as the clear 1 or a highly influential 2 finance leader with broad enterprise-wide responsibility. Private equity-backed company experience strongly preferred, with demonstrated success building FP&A capabilities, reporting infrastructure, and forecasting processes in a lean or high-growth organization. Experience managing lender relationships, credit facilities, debt covenants, and working capital in an inventory-intensive business. Background within consumer products, CPG, eCommerce, retail, manufacturing, or distribution environments strongly preferred. Experience of operating in businesses with large SKU counts and complex inventory environments, with a strong understanding of demand planning, inventory management, gross margin performance, and customer/channel profitability analytics. Being able to operate in a business with large SKU counts and complex inventory environments. Executive presence and communication skills with experience presenting to Boards, investors, lenders, and private equity stakeholders. NetSuite implementation or finance transformation experience highly desirable. CPA and/or MBA preferred.
