Chief Financial Officer / VP of Finance
Location: Coastal Georgia / South Carolina Region
Compensation: Approximately $250,000 Annually
Reports To: CEO and Ownership
Position Overview
A large, high-growth diversified enterprise is seeking a strategic and operationally strong Chief Financial Officer / VP of Finance to lead the finance and accounting function across a complex multi-entity organization. This individual will provide executive financial leadership for a business approaching $1B in annual sales and overseeing 42 entities across automotive, real estate, parts distribution, and rental operations.
This role is ideal for a finance executive who can balance strategic leadership with hands-on oversight in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. The CFO will partner closely with ownership, the CEO, and the enterprise board to support continued growth, improve reporting visibility, strengthen controls, and lead a large accounting organization through expansion and transformation.
Company Overview
The organization has experienced significant growth, expanding from 350 employees in 2012 to 808 employees in 2025. Its portfolio includes:
- Automotive Groups: with dealership and ancillary operations
- 14 Dealerships: across Georgia and South Carolina
- AutoParts: a rapidly growing parts distribution and manufacturing business operating across South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with fleet growth from 8 trucks in 2022 to 33 trucks today
- Car Rental, a 3-site rental operation managed in partnership with Hertz Enterprise and insurance relationships totaling approximately $20MM
Key Responsibilities
- Provide executive financial leadership across a diversified enterprise with 42 legal entities
- Oversee all accounting, finance, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, and internal controls
- Lead and develop a 30-person accounting team, including a highly centralized accounting structure supporting the automotive group
- Partner with the CEO, ownership, and board on financial strategy, growth initiatives, and enterprise performance
- Support finance operations across automotive dealerships, ancillary business lines, real estate operations, rental operations, and parts distribution
- Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting across a large and evolving entity structure
- Drive process improvement and scalability as the organization continues to grow
- Oversee external relationships, including the company’s CPA firm specializing in the automotive industry
- Provide insight into profitability by business line, entity, and operating division
- Support board reporting and executive-level performance analytics
- Leverage reporting tools and systems including QuickBooks Pro, CDK, and Power BI
- Partner with operational leadership in both production and management divisions to drive financial performance
- Maintain and improve financial support for a management company that operates as a profit center
- Help oversee and support an ESOP that has been self-funded for 11 years
Ideal Background
- Progressive finance leadership experience, ideally in a multi-entity, high-growth, and operationally complex environment
- Experience in automotive, dealership, multi-location businesses Required
- Strong knowledge of accounting operations, financial controls, consolidations, and executive reporting
- Experience leading large accounting teams and developing leadership beneath the CFO level
- Ability to operate both strategically and tactically in an entrepreneurial organization
- Comfort working across multiple business lines with different operating models
- Experience with private ownership structures and board interaction
- CPA preferred
