What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Financial Officer position at Catalant?
About Catalant:
As the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, Catalant gives the world’s leading companies on-demand access to a community of highly vetted independent consultants and former operators. From individual consultants to full project teams, we deliver the right expertise to solve our clients’ most important challenges. Our clients include more than 30% of the Fortune 500, top private equity firms, and global consultancies, all seeking a more flexible, cost-effective way to get high-impact work done.
We’ve reimagined consulting for today’s world: it’s digitally enabled, fit-for-purpose, and designed to deliver outcomes, not just hours. Our proprietary platform powers our ability to connect companies with Catalant Experts and Teams who’ve solved similar problems before. Backed by world-class venture investors, we’re building the team that will take Catalant and the future of consulting to the next level.
Role Description
Catalant is growing rapidly, with strong unit economics, top-tier clients, and a profitable, scalable business model. As we enter our next phase of growth — deepening enterprise partnerships, launching new productized services, and expanding globally — we’re seeking a strategic, hands-on Chief Financial Officer to lead our financial strategy and operations.
The CFO will be a key member of the executive leadership team, partnering directly with the CEO and President to shape Catalant’s growth trajectory and ensure financial discipline as we scale. This leader will oversee all aspects of finance — including FP&A, accounting, capital markets, strategic finance, and risk management — and play a pivotal role in strategic planning, investor relations, and corporate development.
This is both a strategic and operational role: Catalant is a lean, fast-moving organization, and the CFO will be expected to roll up their sleeves while providing thought leadership on long-term financial and company strategy.
What you'll do- Strategic & Financial Leadership
- Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and leadership team in defining and executing Catalant’s financial and strategic roadmap.
- Lead the annual and long-range financial planning process, aligning financial goals with company objectives and investor expectations.
- Develop strategic insights into Catalant’s business model, platform dynamics, and margin structure to guide pricing, investment, and capital allocation decisions.
- Financial Operations & Controls
- Oversee accounting, reporting, and financial operations, ensuring GAAP compliance and operational excellence.
- Strengthen Catalant’s financial infrastructure, systems, and controls to support scalability and speed of insight.
- Lead FP&A to provide forward-looking, data-driven decision support to business leaders.
- Develop and implement the right reporting cadence to help drive performance and accountability and to inform changes to how we operate and to our strategy.
- Capital Markets & Investor Relations
- Manage banking relationships, including debt facilities, covenants, and refinancing strategies.
- Lead board and investor communications, ensuring transparency and credibility.
- Evaluate capital structure and financing opportunities to support growth, including potential M&A or strategic investments.
- Leadership & Culture
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement consistent with Catalant’s values.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Operations leaders to drive operational efficiency and alignment.
- 15 years of progressive finance experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity (CFO, VP Finance, or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading finance in a high-growth, technology-enabled services or marketplace business.
- Deep understanding of services business models, unit economics, and working capital dynamics.
- Experience managing debt facilities, investor relations, and board communications.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills — able to move fluidly between details and long-term vision.
- Hands-on leadership style: thrives in a lean, fast-moving environment.
- MBA preferred, but not required.
Benefits
At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- 13 company holidays a week off from Christmas through New Years
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family
- Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental
- 401k to save for retirement
- Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts
- A lifestyle spending account to be used towards cell phone, internet, commuting, and learning & development
- Wellness stipend for your mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing needs and support
- Work from Home stipend
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Catalant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Catalant makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business objectives and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, qualified physical or mental disability, genetic condition or predisposition, or any other status protected by law. All Catalant employees are prohibited from engaging in any form of discrimination.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston headquarters come into our office on a flexible basis, and other employees are fully remote. We are hiring and conducting interviews and onboarding either virtually or in person if local to Boston, depending on what makes most sense based on the specific candidate and new hire. Talk to our People Team to learn more!
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
