Fractional Chief Financial Officer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏱ Part 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

• Provide ongoing, strategic financial leadership on a part-time basis to one or more privately owned, growing organisations • Lead or support cash-flow forecasting and financial planning • Produce management reporting that informs real business decisions • Develop funding strategy and manage relationships with lenders, investors, and advisers • Design or strengthen financial controls and governance • Prepare businesses for succession, management buyout, ownership transition, or financing • Provide decision support through succession, buyout, or financing processes • Strengthen and work through the existing finance team • Accept accountability for agreed deliverables including forecasts, management reporting, controls, decision papers, and lender materials • Work jointly with finance staff, operational leaders, and owners to improve forecast accuracy, cash conversion, closing timeliness, and margins • Influence financings, buyouts, successions, and enterprise value where outcomes depend on external parties or owner decisions • Participate in registration, assessment, curator review, and potential membership in the Rutherford Talent Clearinghouse™ • Develop a Rutherford Fractional Thesis™ or Rutherford Consultant Thesis™ after acceptance, where applicable

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated capability or assessed potential to perform at a high level in a growth and succession fractional CFO mandate • Executive-level financial leadership responsibility, assessed by actual responsibility rather than title • Experience working with owners, chief executives, boards, or family shareholders • Experience challenging assumptions and explaining the outcomes • Experience with cash-flow forecasting, planning, and management reporting that informed decisions • Experience designing or strengthening financial controls and governance proportionate to business size • Relationships with lenders, investors, and advisers • Financing experience led or supported • Relevant contribution to succession, management buyout, ownership transition, or financing, where applicable • Ability to distinguish accountability within an agreed mandate, joint outcomes, and influenced outcomes • Ability to prioritise within limited time • Ability to develop or work through an existing finance team • Readiness to describe growth, succession, ownership transition, buyout, financing, or governance-formalisation situations • Openness to fractional, advisory, or consulting arrangements • No fixed minimum years-of-experience threshold applies • Professional designations are considered alongside demonstrated capability; some client situations may call for one • Must meet Rutherford's benchmark for high-potential management consultants • Current résumé required for registration • LinkedIn profile optional

🏖️ Benefits

• Independent engagements with clients • Ability to work part-time and ongoing across one or more clients • Flexible engagement arrangements, including fractional, advisory, and consulting options • Members remain independent and may work with several clients • Curator-led professional development and review • Selective promotion where there is a credible fit • Optional publication of a curator-approved profile, with member consent • Access to the searchable Rutherford Talent Clearinghouse™ directory • Clients may approach members directly or request curator shortlists • Opportunity to register interest in both the Clearinghouse and Guild communities