Director of Finance: Salary $130,000 - $150,000 plus 20% Bonus
The Director of Finance will play a pivotal role within our organization's leadership team, driving financial strategy and operational excellence. The Director will lead the finance function, overseeing P&L and cash flow management, ensuring financial integrity, and driving earnings growth initiatives. This role requires a finance leader with deep financial acumen, strategic vision, and a collaborative approach to ensure alignment across cross-functional teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Director of Finance is primarily responsible for supporting the strategic financial needs of two distribution centers in Texas and Colorado.
- Strategic Leadership – Serve as a key member of the leadership team, contributing to overall business strategy and operational decision-making. Develop and execute financial strategies aligned with long-term organizational goals.
- Financial Analysis – Build, execute, and oversee the reporting, comprehensive analysis, and evaluation of financial results, trends, fluctuations, and ratios that will drive higher levels of financial performance, improvement initiatives, and growth. Lead the revenue management process at specific intervals to assess impacts of price increases, cost increases, mix-shift, and delivery routes/logistics. Analyze the financial impact of major business decisions and operational issues.
- Business Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting – Participate with senior leadership to develop the strategic vision, annual budget, and ad hoc forecasts. Continuously work to improve the budgeting and forecasting process.
- Performance Metrics – Develop and manage operating and financial metrics that gauge cost effectiveness, cash flow generation, and fundamental performance. Provide a link between the performance metrics and the ability to meet the overall goals of the business.
- Operational Activities – Perform or assist with any departmental operations, as required or directed, to maintain workflow and meet delivery schedules and requirements. Attend and participate in a variety of meetings and task force groups within the businesses and across the platform to integrate activities, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve problems and maintain a specific level of knowledge pertaining to new developments, requirements and policies.
- Mergers and Acquisitions – Lead the financial due diligence and subsequent integration of mergers and acquisitions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in finance, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Highly ethical and trustworthy.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial analysis, and financial management.
- Excellent strategic planning, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical, research, project management, problem solving and organization skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, able to convey clear and concise messages.
Proficiency in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite, with intermediate Excel skills.
- Superior work ethic, intellectual curiosity, strong desire to learn and improve, and uncompromising attention to detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate closely with sales, marketing, operations, and other functional leaders to optimize business performance.
- Experience supporting M&A activity through due diligence and integration
Experience in distribution and logistics preferred.
Misc. Items:
- Full-time position
- Approximately 20% domestic travel