Amazing Brands is a founder-led, multi-brand, corporate-owned and operated restaurant platform with strong regional momentum and an active path toward national expansion (not franchise). This CFO role exists to build financial leverage, capital discipline, and decision velocity as the platform scales in unit count, operational complexity, and technology depth. This is a hands-on operator CFO role with real ownership across finance, technology economics, and growth underwriting.
What We’re Actually Looking For
We’re looking for a restaurant operator CFO who:
- Has scaled corporate-owned, multi-unit restaurant businesses
- Is comfortable in a founder-led environment
- Has a roll-up-your-sleeves mentality
- Partners daily with the COO, Operations, and IT
- Uses technology, data, and AI as leverage—not buzzwords
Non-Negotiable Mindset
- Ownership over delegation
- Operator-first thinking
- Founder-compatible
- Ops-embedded
- Technology-literate and budget-disciplined
Scope of Ownership
The CFO will have direct ownership of:
Accounting & Close Discipline
- Oversight of Senior Controller and accounting operations
- Accuracy, timeliness, and scalability of financial reporting
Payroll
- Payroll strategy, accuracy, compliance, and labor cost visibility
- Alignment across Paycom, labor reporting, and financial systems
FP&A & Budget Ownership
- Full ownership of annual budgets and reforecasts
- Lead rolling forecasts and long-range financial planning
- Partner with Operations, IT, and Development on budget discipline
- Ensure spend aligns with strategic priorities and ROI
Treasury & Cash Management
- Liquidity planning, working capital discipline, and cash controls
- Banking relationships and cash visibility during growth
Development & Construction Financial Oversight
- Financial oversight of corporate-owned new store development and construction
- CapEx budgeting, cost tracking, and ROI / payback discipline
- Early identification of cost overruns and timeline risk
Opportunity Underwriting & Growth Evaluation
Underwrite new opportunities including:
- Corporate-owned new store openings
- Market expansions
- New concepts or brand extensions
- Strategic partnerships
- Build and pressure-test pro formas and return profiles.
Systems, Technology & AI Economics
Own finance systems strategy across:
- Restaurant365
- Sage
- Paycom
- POS platforms (Toast, Aloha, or similar)
Work alongside IT to evaluate, budget, and prioritize:
- Technology platforms
- Data warehouses
- BI tools
- AI and automation initiatives
Ensure technology and AI investments are:
- Budgeted
- ROI-driven
- Scalable
- Operationally adopted
What You’ll Be Measured On
- Budget accuracy and discipline
- Quality of underwriting on new corporate-owned growth
- Predictability of margins, labor, and cash flow
- ROI from technology and AI investments
- Financial infrastructure that scales regionally and nationally
- Trust and effectiveness with Operations and IT
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 10–20 years of progressive finance leadership
- Significant multi-unit, corporate-owned restaurant experience (required)
- Prior CFO or VP Finance role in an operating business
- Experience owning budgets across Ops, IT, and Development
- Strong technology, data, and AI fluency
- Comfortable in founder-led environments
Explicit Non-Fits
- Franchise-only finance leaders
- CFOs who avoid budget ownership or technology economics
- Executives who outsource systems thinking entirely
- Candidates uncomfortable rolling up sleeves
Compensation & Upside
Extremely competitive executive-level base salary + significant performance-based bonus + potential equity participation for the right candidate. Details discussed with qualified candidates only.
