[Remote] Chief Financial Officer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AmbitionCFO is seeking a Fractional CFO who will serve as a peer-level executive to business owners and leadership teams. This role involves leading strategic financial discussions, managing a portfolio of client engagements, and providing decision-grade financial insights to help clients improve their profitability and decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary financial leader and trusted executive partner for a portfolio of growth-focused clients across construction, distribution, and professional services
• Build and maintain the 13-week cash forecast and the rolling 12-month profit forecast for each client, and run the monthly leadership meeting that anchors decisions to those numbers
• Lead the gross-margin rebuild job costing, work-in-progress, pricing teardown, and cost-of-delivery analysis until every client knows where they make money and where they don't
• Translate complex financial data into clear, decision-grade insights tied to the owner's specific goals
• Surface risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities before the client asks
• Advise on capital planning, debt strategy, and acquisition financing when the conversation gets there
• Challenge unrealistic plans thoughtfully and hold leadership accountable to execution
• Ensure financial reporting and systems support decision-making, not just compliance
• Participate in firm-building peer reviews, client reference calls, and occasional brand-building activity inside your network

Skills

• 20+ years of progressive experience in finance and/or operations, with 10+ years sitting in a true CFO seat (controller, accounting manager, and bookkeeper roles do not qualify on their own)
• Demonstrated executive presence with founders, CEOs, and senior leadership teams
• Proven ability to influence decisions, challenge thinking, and coach leaders without resorting to authority or title
• Direct experience inside founder-led businesses in the $10M–$100M revenue range (construction, distribution, trades, professional services, or similar complex operating businesses)
• You have built, scaled, or fixed a business not just analyzed one from the outside
• Comfort working with imperfect data, evolving systems, and entrepreneurial chaos
• Emotionally steady, accountable, solution-oriented, and resilient under pressure
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Prior fractional or multi-client CFO experience is preferred but not required if your in-seat experience is deep

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