Chief Financial Officer

About the Role

The Chief Financial Officer is accountable for financial strategy, planning, budgeting, cash management, accounting integrity, controls, reporting, tax coordination, risk management, capital readiness, and transaction support. The CFO gives the CEO and the executive team a dependable financial view of the company and translates strategic choices into clear economic consequences. The CFO serves as the company's principal financial advisor and strategic business partner to the CEO. While the CEO establishes enterprise strategy, capital priorities, and final transaction decisions, the CFO provides financial analysis, governance, risk assessment, recommendations, and disciplined financial execution that enable informed executive decision-making. The CFO partners across the Executive Leadership Team to ensure financial integrity, capital readiness, and sustainable enterprise growth.

This is an equity-only, fractional executive leadership opportunity for a visionary leader who is energized by building, scaling, and shaping a high-growth technology company. The ideal candidate thrives in entrepreneurial environments, embraces ambiguity, and is motivated by creating long-term enterprise value while partnering with a collaborative executive team.

Department: Executive
Reports to: CEO
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Who We Are

Our team's digital inventiveness and mobile location expertise creates brand stories that produce results. We are seasoned professionals who have worked in marketing, technology, mobile, and beyond. Our skills include Micro-fencing, mobile strategy, data analytics, and more.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise strategy, the Path to $53M in 2026, and the planned exit into an integrated financial plan with assumptions, milestones, scenarios, and funding requirements.
• Own annual planning, rolling forecasts, budgets, cash-flow projections, liquidity management, runway analysis, and variance reporting.
• Ensure timely, accurate accounting, reconciliations, close procedures, financial statements, management reporting, and audit-ready records.
• Establish scalable financial governance, including banking, treasury, procurement, payment approvals, contracting, payroll inputs, equity administration, financial policies, internal controls, and enterprise financial compliance.
• Model deal economics, pricing, margins, commissions, delivery costs, renewals, and enterprise profitability in partnership with Revenue and Operations.
• Lead financial readiness for fundraising, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, litigation funding, intellectual property valuation, licensing transactions, due diligence, and future exit opportunities.
• Manage relationships with banks, accountants, tax advisers, insurance providers, investors, funders, and financial counterparties.
• Report clearly to the CEO on cash, runway, revenue, collections, expenses, forecast, risks, capital needs, and decisions.

Enterprise Leadership

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on enterprise growth, investment priorities, capital strategy, and long-term value creation.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide decision-making beyond the finance function, balancing financial discipline with innovation and growth.
• Build financial transparency across the organization by helping leaders understand the financial implications of strategic decisions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, data-driven decision-making, and operational excellence.

Executive Partnership & Collaboration

• Partner with COO on budgets, operating plans, cost discipline, deadlines, and corrective action.
• Partner with CRO on validating deal economics, pricing, margins, commissions, collective assumptions, and forecast integration.
• Partner with Technology to evaluate investment priorities, infrastructure costs, software capitalization, delivery economics, and scalable operating models.
• Partner with CHRO on payroll input and people headcount budgeting, and equity records.
• Partner with GC on coordinating financial terms, controls, risk, tax, and approval requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline required. MBA, Master's degree in Finance or Accounting, or CPA strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive finance experience, including at least 5 years in a senior executive leadership role.
• Experience leading financial strategy, capital planning, forecasting, governance, and organizational scaling within a high-growth, entrepreneurial, or technology environment.

Qualifications

Certifications (strongly preferred):

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)
• Certified Financial Planner (CFP)

Benefits

• Equity-based opportunity to shape the financial strategy and long-term value creation of Digital Factory.
• Strategic partnership with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team in building a high-growth technology company.
• Opportunity to architect the financial infrastructure that supports innovation, disciplined growth, and future liquidity events.
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation, accountability, and purpose.

Pay

This opportunity is offered on an equity-only basis as we continue to scale. There is no salary or hourly compensation at this time.