Practice Leader, Client CFO – Growth

🕒 August 20

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $250k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Propeller Industries

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Private equity on 2020-09

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

Propeller Industries is an enterprise-grade financial services firm that partners with high-growth startups and emerging companies to provide fractional CFO, accounting, and strategic finance support. With roughly 250 professionals across three continents and nearly 17 years of experience, Propeller offers services including financial planning & analysis, trade spend management, accounting, transaction advisory, and CIO services, all backed by a proprietary technology platform for data and workflow optimization. They primarily serve CPG, e-commerce/DTC, technology, professional services, blockchain, and healthcare clients at venture and growth stages, positioning themselves as a long-term outsourced finance partner for ambitious businesses.

📋 Description

• Own the Growth practice end to end, including its commercial engine, embedded delivery teams, and strategic client relationships • Drive business development through networking, referrals, strategic partnerships, and direct outreach • Develop go-to-market strategy for Growth-stage Consumer companies • Build private equity, investor, and advisor relationships that generate referrals • Own practice revenue, margins, utilization, and profitability • Build, lead, and develop embedded teams of Controllers and CFOs • Place people in roles where their strengths compound • Set service standards and hold teams accountable for client satisfaction, deliverable quality, and engagement profitability • Conduct portfolio reviews and build capacity through hiring and development • Serve as executive sponsor and escalation point for key accounts • Advise Growth-stage Consumer operators at CFO level • Maintain strategic relationships with complex clients • Participate in board meetings and investor conversations • Translate financial data into strategic insight and deliver difficult messages clearly • Make decisions about pricing, resource allocation, and engagement scope • Use PropellerOS to deliver cross-client insights and codify effective Growth-stage practices • Continuously improve service delivery quality, efficiency, and client impact across the practice

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated business development success, including identifying, cultivating, and closing client relationships in coordination with the GoToMarket team • 15+ years in finance/accounting • At least 7 years in CFO or senior financial leadership roles • Direct experience scaling companies from $30M to $300M+ in revenue, ideally as CFO or VP Finance • Demonstrated AI fluency and current use of AI in finance workflows • Track record leading and developing teams, including managing managers • Multi-client or consulting background strongly preferred, such as Big 4, boutique advisory, PE portfolio, or similar • Strong executive presence and comfort presenting to boards, private equity sponsors, and sophisticated stakeholders • Experience building scalable financial infrastructure, including ERP transitions, reporting systems, and planning processes • Understanding of Consumer business economics, channels, metrics, seasonal rhythms, retail relationships, and brand dynamics • Deep expertise in at least one of DTC/e-commerce, CPG, or omnichannel retail • Experience with core processes and systems such as inventory, trade spend, QuickBooks, and NetSuite • Business Services depth alongside Consumer is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant variable compensation tied to practice performance and new business • Equity participation • AI/automation training • Executive coaching • Access to Propeller's network • Remote-flexible work arrangement • Generous paid time off • Holiday pay • Comprehensive health benefits • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • HSA contribution • Paid family leave • 401(k) match • Professional growth support