Chief Financial Officer

Job Summary:

Bay Colony Search has been retained to hire a CFO for a small, but growing, industrial manufacturer in Baltimore. The company has started to expand across the US & has a new product that is already making waves and could surpass their original product in the next couple of years.

You will report to the President and will be a strategic partner to him and the private equity sponsor. This is a smaller company with just one other person in Accounting/Finance so you must be both strategic and tactical; that means you will be making journal entries.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for month end close functions of the company by preparing journal entries and performing quarterly balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare and maintain annual budgets and multi-year forecast and perform analysis of budget/forecast variances and financial trends
• Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and ensure compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting
• Monitor financial covenants of in debt agreements, prepare quarterly compliance reports, and maintain current lender relationships
• Responsible for daily cash activities and capital distributions
• Manage annual financial audit which includes developing audit schedule, ensuring required documentation is prepared in a timely manner, and interacting with the auditors
• Present financials to Board on a quarterly basis
• Partner with other leaders in the business to develop and implement process improvements and new technologies to create a more efficient accounting department
• Evaluate potential acquisitions and assist with integration if one is completed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree mandatory and Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• 8 years of accounting and finance experience and must have worked for a small company of less than $30M
• Mix of accounting and FP&A experience
• Willingness, and more importantly, desire to be part of a smaller company
• Have worked at a manufacturing company
• Ideally will have experience working for a private equity backed business
• Capable of being a strategic partner to the CEO
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present to a Board
• Should have ERP implementation experience

This is an onsite role - no remote and no hybrid. Base salary, bonus, and equity will be offered to the right candidate.