Company seeks a highly strategic, emotionally intelligent, and execution-oriented Fractional Chief Financial Officer to partner with executive leadership and the Board during a critical phase of organizational growth, capital funding exploration, and enterprise evolution.
This role will focus on activities to support obtainment of external capital, including financial modeling, valuation support, lender/investor engagement, strategic financial planning, and enterprise readiness. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in growth financing and enterprise financial strategy while operating effectively within a founder-led, entrepreneurial, highly creative, seasonal, and operationally unconventional business environment.
This is a strategic advisory leadership role designed to augment and scale executive financial leadership capacity during a period of accelerated growth and organizational complexity.
This search is being conducted confidentially. The name of the company will be shared with candidates after recruiter vetting and prior to an interview with company personnel.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with executive leadership and the Board on capitalization strategy and financing readiness
- Support evaluation and execution of private credit and alternative financing structures
- Develop and refine enterprise financial models, liquidity planning tools, and valuation analyses
- Assist with preparation of lender/investor materials and financing presentations
- Participate in financing-related meetings alongside executive leadership and Board representatives
- Provide strategic advisory support related to entity structure evolution, including domestic and international operating entities
- Advise leadership on long-range financial planning, enterprise scalability, and organizational readiness
- Support selective high-impact finance transformation initiatives focused on systems utilization, AI adoption, process efficiency, and reporting maturity
- Mentor and support internal finance leadership without displacing operational ownership
- Serve as a trusted strategic advisor while learning the business and building organizational credibility
Important Role Context
This role is intentionally designed as a strategic and advisory leadership role rather than an operational replacement for the existing finance organization.
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating within:
- a founder-led organization,
- a highly entrepreneurial environment,
- a seasonal business model,
- and a rapidly evolving growth company.
The ideal leader will know how to:
- bring sophistication without rigidity,
- improve structure without over-bureaucratizing,
- and support leadership without overpowering existing dynamics.
Success in this environment requires strong emotional intelligence, adaptability, executive maturity, and the ability to build trust before driving change.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Prior CFO experience in growth-oriented organizations (required)
- Demonstrated experience supporting capital raises, debt financing structures, and lender relationships from strategy through execution (required)
- Strong understanding of private credit, covenant management, liquidity planning, and enterprise valuation (required)
- Experience supporting founder-led, entrepreneurial, seasonal, or operationally unconventional businesses
- Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
- Strong finance systems and modernization mindset, including process optimization and AI-enabled efficiencies
- Experience supporting multi-entity and/or international business structures
- Collaborative leadership style with strong relationship-building skills
- Executive-level communication and board interaction experience
Work Arrangement
- Fractional engagement
- Approximately 20 hours per week (anticipated for 6 months)
- Primarily remote with periodic onsite meetings as needed
What Success Looks Like
- Successful support of capitalization initiatives
- Enhanced lender and investor readiness
- Improved financial modeling and strategic planning capabilities
- Trusted integration with executive leadership and the finance organization
- Identification of scalable finance processes, systems, and operational efficiencies
- Support of enterprise restructuring and long-range growth readiness
Confidentiality
This search is being conducted confidentially due to the strategic nature of the organization’s financing and growth initiatives.
Qualified candidates with relevant experience in strategic finance leadership, growth capitalization, and entrepreneurial business environments are encouraged to apply.
