Chief Financial Officer

The Role: Reporting to ownership, the CFO will be a forward-looking, strategic finance partner. The accounting team and outside CPA firm handle the books, tax and audit. The CFO will work across every department to find where value is being lost, including problems no one has identified yet, and fix them.

Key Responsibilities: Use SAP data to find where and why production losses occur, and drive the fix with the operating teams. Analyze and challenge freight and logistics costs. Own the product-level cost model and lead costing and pricing with sales: cost floors, margin ranges, and volume and seasonal exceptions. Build a rolling cash flow forecast for a highly seasonal business, and own the weekly cash and payables review. Lead budgeting, forecasting and KPI reporting. Oversee a lean accounting team and the relationship with the outside CPA firm. Serve as a trusted advisor to ownership on major decisions.

Required: finance leadership experience in a perishable goods, such as horticulture or floriculture, nursery, agribusiness, livestock or poultry, aquaculture or seafood, or fresh produce (growers or distributors).Strategic finance skills: cost modeling, pricing and margin analysis, scenario modeling and cash forecasting. Proven record of reducing losses and costs in an operating business. Hands-on player-coach who builds rapport with front-line teams. Conversational Spanish, enough to talk with floor employees. Fluency is not required. Six Sigma or process-improvement training, a manufacturing background, and SAP Business One are a plus. CPA and MBA not required.