Chief Financial Officer

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Department: Accounting & Finance - Reports To: CEO - Location: On-site only | 531 Old Swede Road, Douglassville, PA 19518 (No remote work available) - Schedule: Monday–Friday | 8:00AM–4:30PM | Full-time - Compensation: Competitive executive compensation based on experience, technical depth, strategic finance leadership, industry background, and market data - Build Your Career with ACECO (intro) - What This Role Really Is (description) - Who Thrives Here — And Who Does Not (culture fit) - What Success Looks Like In The First Year (quarterly milestones) - Why Join ACECO? (benefits/impact) - What You’ll Do (list of duties) - What We’re Looking For (requirements) - Education - Experience We need to map to sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (must-have), Qualifications (education/experience?), Skills (maybe abilities), Benefits (why join), Pay (compensation), Schedule (schedule). Must only include sections with real content. Let's extract each. About the role: Could be the introductory paragraph: "Build Your Career with ACECO We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer to provide strategic and operational financial leadership as our organization continues to grow, mature, and invest in our future. This role reports directly to our CEO and will also collaborate closely with our President. We are looking for a finance executive who can see beyond historical reporting and help the organization make better decisions about profitability, cash flow, investment, risk, growth, capital needs, and long-term direction. The right person will spend time understanding how ACECO actually works, how jobs move through Engineering, Manufacturing, Service, Sales, Purchasing, Quality, and Operations, and then translate that understanding into clearer financial strategy, better forecasting, stronger accountability, and better business decisions. You won’t get lost here. Your perspective will matter, your judgment will be relied upon, and your impact will be visible across the organization." That's substantive. Responsibilities: The "What You’ll Do" section lists many duties. Also "What This Role Really Is" maybe also responsibilities. We'll combine duties under Responsibilities. Requirements: "What We’re Looking For" includes bullet-like paragraphs: "Strategic financial leadership within an operating business", "Strong technical accounting foundation", etc. Also "Education" and "Experience". Could be separate sections: Qualifications (education), Requirements (experience/skills). But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map: - Requirements: core competencies/experience needed (strategic financial leadership, technical accounting foundation, executive judgment, hands-on budgeting, forecasting, modeling, cash-flow planning, connecting operational activity to financial results, business partnership, leading/developing teams, improving financial accountability, communication with non-financial leaders, challenging assumptions, change leadership, ERP implementation, integrity, curiosity about tech). - Qualifications: Education (Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field strongly preferred; CPA preferred; MBA or other advanced degree preferred; equivalent executive-level financial leadership experience may be considered when supported by strong technical accounting background). - Skills: maybe the specific abilities like "Experience working directly with business owners", "Experience leading and developing Accounting or Finance teams", "Ability to improve financial accountability across departments", "Strong communication with non-financial leaders", "Comfort challenging assumptions constructively", "Change leadership and ERP implementation capability". But many overlap with Requirements. Could treat Skills as the specific abilities like "Strategic financial leadership", "Technical accounting foundation", etc. However we need to avoid duplication. Perhaps we can put Requirements as the bullet list of "What We’re Looking For" (the competencies). Qualifications as Education. Skills as maybe "Experience connecting operational activity to financial results", "Experience leading and developing teams", etc. But we need to ensure we don't invent content. Better: Use Requirements for the list under "What We’re Looking For" (the bullet-like statements). Use Qualifications for Education and Experience (the bullet under Experience). Use Skills for maybe the specific abilities like "Strong communication with non-financial leaders", "Comfort challenging assumptions", "Change leadership and ERP implementation capability". But those are also in Requirements. Might be okay to have overlapping but we need to preserve all info; duplication is okay as long as we don't invent. But we must not create sections with filler. So each section must have real content. Pay: Compensation line: "Competitive executive compensation based on experience, technical depth, strategic finance leadership, industry background, and market data". That's specific enough. Schedule: "Monday–Friday | 8:00AM–4:30PM | Full-time". Also location info maybe separate but schedule section only schedule. Benefits: "Why Join ACECO?" includes bullet points: Executive-Level Impact, Hands-On Business Partnership, A Business in Growth Mode, ERP Transformation, Long-Term Financial Strategy, Direct Access to Leadership. Also maybe other benefits like "Executive-Level Impact ...", etc. We'll capture those. Now we need to output HTML with

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  for prose. We must not include markdown fences. Let's craft. First, About the role: Use prose

  . Could be multiple paragraphs but we can combine. Responsibilities: Use

  • for each duty from "What You’ll Do". Also maybe include "What This Role Really Is" but we can incorporate. Let's extract duties from "What You’ll Do": - Serve as a trusted financial advisor to our CEO, President, and Leadership Team - Help develop, evaluate, and implement strategic business plans - Provide financial analysis and recommendations related to growth, investments, financing, expansion, and organizational priorities - Evaluate tradeoffs, risks, and financial implications of major decisions - Connect financial strategy to the operational realities of the business - Lead, manage, develop, and provide executive oversight to the Accounting and Finance function - Provide direct leadership and coaching to the Controller and other assigned team members - Maintain appropriate separation between Controller ownership of day-to-day technical accounting and CFO ownership of strategic financial leadership - Strengthen technical capability, process discipline, succession readiness, and cross-training - Build a collaborative, solutions-focused Accounting function that supports company growth - Provide executive oversight of the annual budgeting process - Ensure annual budgets are completed before the start of each fiscal year - Update forecasts quarterly in collaboration with department leaders and executive leadership - Develop a comprehensive 5–10 year financial outlook - Model growth, expansion, capital expenditures, financing, staffing, cash needs, and strategic initiatives - Improve financial visibility and accountability across departments - Review monthly financial results for accuracy, trends, risks, and business outcomes - Prepare meaningful commentary and present results to executive leadership - Analyze actual results against budget, forecast, historical performance, and strategic goals - Develop dashboards, KPIs, and financial summaries - Analyze job-level and project-level profitability, cost coverage, and operational performance - Translate complex financial data into clear business implications and recommendations - Lead cash-flow planning, liquidity management, and capital requirement analysis - Evaluate financing needs and long-term capital strategy - Support decisions related to growth, expansion, investment, and organizational capacity - Anticipate future working-capital and cash requirements - Identify and evaluate financial and operational risks - Work with Legal, Safety, Production, Insurance, Accounting, and other functions to reduce financial exposure - Support insurance-renewal decision-making - Oversee customer credit risk - Monitor risks related to liquidity, customer concentration, contractual obligations, inventory, financing, and other material exposures - Provide executive financial oversight of inventory and related controls - Support annual physical inventory and cycle-count processes - Partner with Accounting, Purchasing, and Manufacturing to improve inventory accuracy - Evaluate inventory levels, financial exposure, and working-capital implications - Serve as a key executive leader in ACECO’s planned ERP conversion - Represent Finance and Accounting requirements during planning, configuration, testing, implementation, and stabilization - Help shape future-state financial processes, controls, workflows, reporting, and data quality - Support training, cross-training, process documentation, and change management - Explore opportunities to improve finance through automation, analytics, dashboards, and responsible AI use - Maintain strong relationships with bankers, bond brokers, CPAs, auditors, tax advisors, insurance brokers, and other professional partners - Represent ACECO in significant financial and professional discussions - Participate in regular meetings regarding company performance, financing, audit, tax, and future needs - Provide CFO-level financial guidance to NorLink Solutions - Review monthly financial performance - Provide perspective on pricing, marketing strategy, hiring, investment, cash requirements, and other business decisions - Support NorLink’s growth while aligning financial guidance with ACECO’s broader strategy That's a lot; we can keep as list. Requirements: list from "What We’re Looking For": - Strategic financial leadership within an operating business - Strong technical accounting foundation - Executive-level judgment and decision-making - Hands-on budgeting, forecasting, modeling, and cash-flow planning - Experience connecting operational activity to financial results - Strong business partnership with owners, CEOs, and senior leaders - Experience leading and developing Accounting or Finance teams - Ability to improve financial accountability across departments - Strong communication with non-financial leaders - Comfort challenging assumptions constructively - Change leadership and ERP implementation capability - High integrity, discretion, and confidentiality - Strong curiosity regarding technology, automation, analytics, and AI Qualifications: Education: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field strongly preferred - CPA designation preferred - MBA or other advanced degree preferred - Equivalent executive-level financial leadership experience may be considered when supported by a strong technical accounting background Experience: maybe also under Qualifications? But we have separate Qualifications heading for education; we could put experience under Requirements? But we already have experience items in Requirements. Could treat Qualifications as education + experience. But we need to follow headings list; we can put Qualifications for education and experience combined. However we already used Requirements for competencies; Qualifications for education/experience. That seems okay. Skills: maybe we can list specific abilities like "Strong communication with non-financial leaders", "Comfort challenging assumptions", "Change leadership and ERP implementation capability". But those are already in Requirements. To avoid duplication, we could put Skills as the technical skills: "Budgeting, forecasting, modeling, cash-flow planning", "ERP conversion leadership", "Financial analysis, dashboards, KPIs", "Inventory and working capital oversight", "Risk management", "External financial relationship management". But that may be inventing. Better to keep Skills empty? But we must not create a section with filler. So if we don't have distinct skills content, we should omit Skills section. Thus we will include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We will omit Skills. Now Benefits: from "Why Join ACECO?": - Executive-Level Impact: This role will directly influence growth strategy, capital planning, profitability, risk, technology investments, and long-range business decisions. - Hands-On Business Partnership: The CFO will work closely with leaders across Engineering, Manufacturing, Service, Sales, Purchasing, Quality, HR, and other functions. - A Business in Growth Mode: ACECO is continuing to invest in people, technology, systems, capabilities, and operational scale. - ERP Transformation: The CFO will be a key executive leader through a significant ERP conversion and will help shape future financial processes, controls, reporting, and workflows. - Long-Term Financial Strategy: This is an opportunity