Client-Facing Chief Financial Officer - Manufacturing Focus (Remote)

Overview

This fully remote role is for a CFO Advisory professional supporting manufacturing and production-based clients (and other client types as needed). You will serve as a trusted strategic partner, owning client relationships, analyzing financials, and delivering actionable recommendations to help owners and leadership teams make complex financial decisions with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end client relationship, providing strategic guidance in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, M&A, and capital investment decisions.
• Lead cost accounting structure development and improvement, including standard, job, or process costing; bills of material; labor and overhead absorption; and variance analysis to support margin visibility by product, line, and customer.
• Oversee inventory accounting across raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods, including physical counts, costing methods, and obsolescence reserves; drive improvements in inventory turns and accuracy.
• Translate plant operational metrics (capacity utilization, throughput, scrap and yield, cost per unit) into financial decisions and KPI dashboards that connect the plant floor to the P&L.
• Lead capital expenditure and equipment ROI analysis, make-vs-buy decisions, and working capital strategy.
• Manage lender relationships, including borrowing base reporting and covenant compliance.
• Build pricing and quoting models incorporating raw material and commodity costs, tariffs, supplier terms, and demand shifts.
• Help clients maximize ERP/MRP systems so costing, inventory, and production data flow accurately into financial reporting.
• Lead structured, impactful client QBRs and deliver service that consistently earns outstanding client satisfaction.
• Proactively manage client scope and margin; contribute to firm growth by bringing manufacturing credibility to proposals and prospect conversations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop client teams (Controllers and accountants), sharing manufacturing know-how to raise team capability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in financial advisory, strategic accounting, or CFO services, including 5+ years in a senior finance leadership role within a manufacturing or production-based company.
• Hands-on expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, including implementing and maintaining costing methods, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and product/customer profitability.
• Experience working within manufacturing ERP/MRP systems and partnering with operations leaders on capacity, pricing, and capital equipment decisions.
• Proven leadership guiding mid-market businesses through financial planning, capital strategy, lender relationships, and operational efficiency.
• Strong background in accounting principles, GAAP (including inventory accounting), and forecasting tools.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted advisor in complex business scenarios including M&A, restructuring, and risk mitigation.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to simplify complex topics and build trust with executives, operators, and team members.
• Integrity and ethics, with a passion for mentoring others and fostering a value-aligned culture.
• Independence and flexibility to work from your home office (work wherever philosophy).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience presenting to board-level stakeholders (and/or presenting complex financial information clearly to non-finance leaders).
• Background mentoring and developing accounting and finance teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $175,000 - $185,000.
• Full benefits including health, dental, vision, accident, and pet insurance.
• Flexible vacation and a company close at the end of the year.
• 401k plan with company match.

Location

• Fully remote (work from your home office).

Additional Information

• This is a W2, full-time, 40-hour/week position.
• Recruiting process includes two short assessments; results will be considered as part of the application.
• There will be a live accounting test via Teams Screen Share to confirm accounting skills. Passing this test is mandatory.
• Offer of employment is contingent upon satisfactory results of a thorough background check and the ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US.
• Committed to long-term employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Employment is based on merit, competence, qualifications, and is not influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.