Fractional CFO helping Eightx support fast-growing ecommerce and consumer brands. Improving earnings, reducing risk, and preparing founders for lenders, investors, and exits.
Responsibilities
Help clients build enterprise value and serve as a trusted first call for founders
Grow earnings through contribution margin, advertising spend, pricing, inventory and cash optimization
Drive durable organic growth with healthy customer economics
Prove earnings quality through repeatable, contractual economics, strong LTV and margins
Reduce customer, channel, supplier and operational risks
Manage a portfolio of approximately 10 clients at full load
Run client onboarding, including profit tracker, constraint analysis, financial model and Growth Economics Audit
Establish department scorecards and capital allocation frameworks
Hold weekly working sessions and scorecard reviews with founders
Review monthly close and financial models, with clear cash analysis
Advise on advertising spend, inventory purchases, hiring and funding decisions
Measure, diagnose and model responses to unfavorable metric movements
Review and direct analysts' and accountants' work
Reply to client messages the same day
Support interim CFO placements, lender calls, investor updates, board meetings, data rooms, quality-of-earnings preparation, sales calls and client proposals
Prepare clients for lenders, investors, due diligence and exits
Requirements
10+ years in finance, including time as a CFO, VP Finance or head of FP&A in a growth company, or a PE, investment banking or transaction advisory background plus real operating experience
Strong three-statement, driver-based modelling skills, explainable to someone who hates spreadsheets
Experience with lenders, investors or acquirers in a raise, refinance, quality of earnings review, due diligence or exit
Understanding of what drives a multiple and experience helping a business improve one
Fluent business English, spoken and written
Ability to coach and empathize; founders and CEOs have acted on your advice
Based in the US, Canada, the UK or Europe, with good overlap with North American business hours
Ecommerce, DTC or CPG experience strongly preferred
Experience with contribution margin, CAC and payback, cohorts, inventory and cash conversion, Shopify and Amazon strongly preferred
CPA, CA, ACCA or CFA, or an MBA
Experience running a weekly operating cadence (EOS, scorecards, L10s or similar)
Experience coaching or managing analysts and accountants
Benefits
Senior-level pay benchmarked to your market
Partnership model with upside growing with the clients you serve
Fully remote work
A team underneath you and an operating system to run with every client
Generous vacation and time-off policies
Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
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