Vice President Finance

Key Responsibilities: Lead, Manage, and Hold Accountable: Own the performance, professional development, and strategic alignment of all direct reports to company objectives. Set clear expectations and drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Strategic Financial Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive leadership team, translating financial insight and business intelligence into strategic recommendations that shape company direction. Enable Execution: Identify and eliminate financial barriers that impede execution. Ensure the organization has the financial frameworks, approvals, and resources needed to move decisively on company priorities. Headcount and Resource Planning: Own headcount planning and resource allocation within the finance function, ensuring the team is structured and staffed to support the company's growth trajectory and operational demands. Finance Function Ownership: Build and maintain a finance function that operates with independence and precision—delivering accurate, timely financial data that enables sound business decisions across the organization. Financial Visibility and Accountability: Own finance-related Measurables on the company Scorecard and deliver consistent financial visibility to the leadership team, ensuring alignment between financial performance and strategic objectives. Capital Planning and Investment Analysis: Lead financial modeling for capital allocation, build-versus-buy analyses, and return-on-investment evaluations for major infrastructure investments and strategic ventures. Risk Management and Insurance: Own the company's financial risk profile—including contractual risk, liability exposure, insurance programs, and risk mitigation strategies—across all business lines and operating entities. Pricing and Margin Strategy: Ensure pricing models across all business lines are anchored in validated cost data and margin targets, providing the analytical foundation for disciplined, profitable growth. Cash Flow and Working Capital Management: Oversee the strategic management of receivables, payables, inventory financing, and working capital to ensure the company maintains the liquidity position required to fund operations and sustained growth. Banking and Lender Relationships: Own and manage relationships with banking partners, lenders, and capital providers—including credit facilities, debt covenants, and financing structures that underpin the company's growth trajectory. Business Intelligence and Data Strategy: Own the financial reporting infrastructure—dashboards, KPI frameworks, and analytical tools—that provide leadership with real-time visibility into business performance beyond the Scorecard.

Qualifications: Experience 10+ years in finance with progressive advancement from execution into strategic leadership (Director of Finance, VP Finance, CFO, or equivalent).Experience leading a finance function in a growth-stage or mid-market company—building high-performing teams, setting financial strategy, and partnering with executive leadership on critical business decisions. Demonstrated ownership of headcount planning and resource allocation within a finance organization, combined with cross-functional partnership at the executive level. Manufacturing, electrical distribution, critical infrastructure, or industrial market experience is a plus but not required. Skills Financial acumen that extends well beyond technical accounting—ability to connect financial performance to operational outcomes and advise leadership with clarity and conviction. Proven ability to build budgets, deliver accurate forecasts, and translate complex financial data into strategic guidance that directly influences how leadership allocates capital and manages risk. Proficiency with financial systems, reporting platforms, and analytical tools—with the judgment to know what to delegate and what to own personally. A natural enabler who develops talent, sets clear expectations, and creates the conditions for teams to perform at a high level. Comfortable leading through influence and holding people to exacting standards. EOS/Traction experience is a strong plus—including working knowledge of Scorecards, Measurables, Rocks, and L10 meetings.