Chief Financial Officer

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🕒 October 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Rutherford International

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🤝 B2B

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💼 Consulting

B2B • Recruitment • Consulting

Rutherford International is a talent agency and executive search firm focused on recognizing exceptional talent and facilitating their career growth. They offer a variety of services, including bespoke executive search, organizational analytics, and access to a community of high-performing professionals. Their approach combines advanced analytics with behavioral science to ensure optimal matches between candidates and opportunities, enhancing organizational performance across various sectors. Rutherford International also operates the NEXTalent Marketplace, connecting businesses with top-tier management consultants and providing tailored career diagnostic services to assist individuals and organizations in navigating professional transitions.

📋 Description

• Lead the finance function on a continuing basis • Provide financial stewardship and reporting for boards, lenders and owners • Lead planning, budgeting, forecasting and decision support • Manage liquidity, working-capital policy, banking relationships and financing readiness • Establish and oversee financial controls, risk escalation and audit committee or board support • Build, lead and develop the finance team • Strengthen finance systems and data • Provide commercial judgement on pricing, investment, acquisitions and cost • Govern review of automated or AI-assisted tool outputs and determine what is fit for the board • Deliver plans, forecasts, reporting, controls, board and lender papers, and timely risk escalation within delegated authority • Work jointly with operating leaders and the finance team to improve forecast accuracy, close timeliness, cash conversion, margins and covenant compliance

🎯 Requirements

• Senior finance role in an enterprise on a permanent basis, or preparation for such a role • Demonstrated capability or assessed potential to perform at a high level in an appropriate enterprise finance mandate • Enterprise finance responsibility, including organisation, ownership and scale, finance team, reporting line and authorised decisions • Experience with reporting, planning and forecasting that informed real decisions • Experience designing or strengthening controls and governance, and working with an audit committee or board • Experience leading or supporting financing, banking and lender relationships • Experience building finance capability, including team depth, systems, planning cadence and succession within finance • Ability to describe accountability, joint achievements and influenced outcomes • Readiness to describe relevant leadership contexts and appointment formats • No fixed minimum years-of-experience threshold applies • Private-equity, succession, acquisition or regulated-sector experience strengthens fit where relevant but is not required for registration • Professional designations are recorded and considered; some mandates, sectors or regulators may require one • Current résumé required for registration • LinkedIn profile optional • Career Thesis not required at registration

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent appointment brings continuity, embedded accountability and the chance to build a finance team over time • Curator-led development of a Career Thesis for accepted members • Selective introductions to organisations for specific roles, where there is a credible fit and under applicable arrangements • Access to private talent pipelines and Rutherford & Company retained searches • Assessment results interpreted by a Rutherford curator alongside experience, achievements and objectives