Chief Financial Officer for Seattle-based Manufacturing & Services Company

SEARCH FIRM: CFO Selections®, LLC  
TYPE: Retained Search
CLIENT*: Seattle area manufacturing and services company
POSITION: Chief Financial Officer
COMPENSATION: $200,00 – $275,000 with annual bonus
LOCATION: Seattle, WA (potentially hybrid after first six months)
SEARCH TEAM: Alex de Soto, Jamie Peters

ABOUT the company

Our private equity backed client is a Seattle based B2B manufacturing and services company with nearly 400 employees and manufacturing facilities in the Seattle area as well as on the east coast. In the past few years, the company has been growing by making strategic acquisitions and will continue to grow through future acquisitions. The ownership is focused more on long-term growth than a short-term sale of the company.

POSITION SUMMARY

The CFO will report to the President, with direct interaction with the Board of Directors. The CFO will be a member of the executive team and will assume a key strategic role in the overall leadership of the company. The CFO will have primary day-to-day responsibility for reporting, planning, implementing, managing, and controlling all financial-related activities of the Company and for orchestrating the financial architecture to best support business building objectives to increase shareholder value. This will include direct responsibility for accounting, finance, purchasing and estimating. The CFO will serve as the Company’s financial conscience, constantly driving financial discipline and financial metrics to maximize commercial, operational, and strategic opportunities in support of the aggressive and successful growth of the company.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance; MBA is preferred.
• Public accounting experience and a CPA is highly desirable.
• FP&A experience both in manufacturing gross margin analysis and improvement along with FP&A experience in the services industry.
• Prior experience as a VP Finance or CFO is preferred, but this can be a person’s first time in the VP Finance/CFO role.
• Experience managing an accounting team.
• Experience working with professional investors or executives at a parent company that operates like an investment holding company.
• Experience structuring and managing conventional credit (term and revolving), capital markets, project finance, and other sophisticated financing transactions.

ABOUT CFO SELECTIONS

CFO Selections® provides finance and accounting interim consulting and executive search services to a wide range of organizations in key markets nationwide. Established in 2002, the company focuses on locating and recruiting the highest caliber senior-level talent available. Its team of consulting CFOs and Controllers work in a collaborative and problem-solving way to generate maximum results.