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About the role

  • 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
  • Build revenue, COGS, purchasing, payroll, overhead, cash, budget, balance-sheet and multi-year financial plans
  • 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
  • A real path to partner

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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