Vice President Finance

GROUP VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE

Position Overview

Unified Motion and its affiliated companies are building a national, technology-enabled logistics platform distinct in its innovative, high-touch services. We combine a truly people-first culture with sophisticated operational capabilities, and we are preparing for the next stage of growth, integration, and value creation.

The Group Vice President of Finance will play a central leadership role in unifying financial operations, elevating transparency, optimizing cash and capital, improving margin performance, and helping build the scalable systems and discipline required for our expansion. This leader will also play a key role in supporting our acquisition and integration efforts as we continue building our multi-entity logistics platform.

This position is designed for a highly capable financial leader who will help architect the financial future of the business — and who has the demonstrated leadership potential to grow into the future Group CFO role as the company expands.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Strategy, Insight & Value Creation

• Support development of a unified financial strategy for all entities, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment.

• Build multi-year financial plans and value creation models that enhance EBITDA, margins, and cash generation.

• Deliver real-time financial insights to the CEO, leadership team, and GMs on profitability, cash flow, liabilities, and working capital.

• Lead scenario modeling for fleet investments, facility expansions, pricing strategies, and new service lines.

2. Reporting, Controls & Governance

• Standardize monthly close processes, reporting, P&Ls, KPIs, and dashboards across the group.

• Build strong internal controls and audit-readiness frameworks in partnership with external advisors.

• Ensure GAAP-aligned statements and entity consolidation.

• Oversee compliance requirements (tax, banking, regulatory, insurance) and support governance processes.

• Support relationships with banking partners, auditors, tax advisors, and insurance providers.

3. Cash Flow, FP&A & Operational Finance

• Manage the group’s rolling cash forecast and long-term liquidity planning.

• Lead annual budgets and quarterly forecasts across all businesses, ensuring collaboration with controllers and general managers.

• Analyze cost structures across operations including value-added services, transportation, warehouse, leasing, and labor.

• Improve margin tracking, pricing analysis, and customer profitability models.

4. M&A, Integration & Growth Support

• Lead core financial workstreams in diligence, modeling, integration planning, synergy analysis, and post-close reporting.

• Help develop a repeatable roll-up playbook for consolidating systems, reporting, and operations across new acquisitions.

• Support evaluation of capital structure planning, financing opportunities, and banking relationships.

5. Systems, Technology & Data Enablement

• Implement modern financial systems and BI tools that unify AP/AR, billing, payroll, fleet expenses, and customer invoicing.

• Integrate financial systems with operational data sources (fleet telematics, cold-chain metrics, warehouse flows) to enhance decision-making.

• Drive automation, accuracy, and scalability across financial processes.

• Partner with the technology team to align on data strategy and ensure consistent data governance.

6. Team Leadership & Cultural Stewardship

• Mentor and expand a growing finance team (controllers, accountants, AP/AR).

• Foster transparency, operational empathy, accountability, and cross-entity collaboration.

• Promote financial literacy for GMs, operations staff, and frontline leaders.

• Support the cultural transition from founder-led to systems-led while preserving Unified Motion’s people-first values.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of progressive financial leadership, ideally in logistics, transportation, or manufacturing, and in multi-entity environments.

• Experience supporting or partnering with executive leadership in high-growth, founder-led, and/or PE-backed companies strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated success in FP&A, cash flow forecasting, cost optimization, multi-entity reporting, and financial controls.

• Familiarity with M&A financial processes (diligence, modeling, integration).

• Experience implementing financial systems and scaling financial teams.

• Strong understanding of transportation economics, fleet costs, leasing models, and operational cost drivers.

• Exceptional communication skills and leadership presence with senior leaders, general managers, and front-line operators.

• A high-potential finance leader who can grow into a future Group CFO role.

Performance Indicators

• Accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting

• Cash flow visibility and forecasting accuracy

• Margin enhancement and cost optimization execution

• Adoption of financial systems and reporting tools

• Strengthening of financial controls

• Successful integration support for acquisitions

• Development of finance team capabilities

• Demonstrated readiness for future CFO responsibilities