Business Unit CFO
hireneXus · Nashville, TN · 1 wk ago
FinanceFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the executive leadership team, partnering with senior leaders to define and execute the company’s strategic, operational, and financial objectives.
- Provide financial leadership and decision support for growth initiatives, market expansion opportunities, strategic investments, partnerships, and capital allocation decisions.
- Design, implement, and continuously enhance scalable financial systems, processes, controls, governance structures, and reporting capabilities that support organizational growth and long-term value creation.
- Lead business unit budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario modeling, and performance management processes to support strategic decision-making.
- Develop and maintain key performance indicators, management reporting, and financial analytics that provide actionable insights into growth, profitability, customer economics, operational performance, and investment returns.
- Partner closely with business, operational, product, and technology leaders to evaluate strategic initiatives, product investments, commercialization opportunities, pricing strategies, and resource allocation decisions.
- Establish financial frameworks and analytical models that support business planning, contract evaluation, profitability analysis, investment decisions, and operational optimization.
- Monitor financial and operational performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations that drive profitability, scalability, efficiency, and sustainable growth.
- Collaborate with accounting leadership to ensure effective financial controls, reporting processes, revenue recognition practices, compliance standards, and risk management programs are maintained across the organization.
- Support executive leadership, board presentations, strategic planning initiatives, and governance activities through thoughtful analysis, financial modeling, and business insights.
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships and serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, fostering alignment, accountability, transparency, and disciplined execution throughout the organization.
- Recruit, develop, and mentor finance talent while promoting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and high performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive finance leadership experience, including responsibility for strategic planning, forecasting, financial operations, business performance, and organizational growth.
- Experience serving as a senior finance business partner to executive leadership teams.
- Experience supporting technology, software, digital services, cybersecurity, managed services, healthcare technology, SaaS, or other high-growth business environments.
- Demonstrated success building scalable financial processes, governance structures, operating models, and reporting capabilities within emerging or rapidly evolving organizations.
- Strong expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, strategic planning, capital allocation, business partnering, and performance management.
- Experience evaluating investments, contracts, profitability, growth opportunities, and strategic initiatives.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence executive decision-making and drive organizational results.
Preferred
- MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced degree or professional certification.
- Experience within a private equity-backed, venture-backed, or high-growth technology environment.
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, integration activities, or large-scale business transformation initiatives.