Chief Financial Officer

The Hunter Group Associates; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hunter Group Associates is seeking a high-profile CFO for a rapidly growing restaurant empire across the U.S. and globally. This is not a “keep the books” role.

We want a builder, a strategist, and a dealmaker who will join the leadership team, helping determine where the company goes next and how big it can become. The CFO will oversee capital strategy, acquisitions, new markets, forecasting, and enterprise value.

Qualifications

• Significant restaurant or hospitality finance leadership experience.
• Experience scaling multi-unit operations.
• Strategic thinker with dealmaking experience.
• Proven ability to deploy capital effectively.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate opportunities, structure deals, and build scalable financial infrastructure.
• Lead capital strategy, banking, acquisitions, and international expansion.
• Help drive growth through new restaurants and market expansion.
• Join leadership to guide a nationally and globally scaling restaurant group.

Skills

Restaurant expertise

Multi-unit ops

Labor management

Food cost control

Lease management

Acquisitions

Capital deployment

Risk management

Strategic dealmaking

International expansion

Forecasting

Banking relationships

Job description

CFO | RESTAURANT EMPIRE | BUILD WHAT’S NEXT.

This is not a “keep the books” CFO role.

I’m searching for a high-profile, dynamic financial executive to join the leadership team behind a major restaurant organization scaling aggressively across the U.S. and globally.

About the Role

We want a builder. A strategist. A dealmaker. A restaurant person. Someone who wants a seat at the table helping determine where this company goes next — and how big it can become.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions, structure deals, deploy capital intelligently, and build the financial infrastructure required to scale.
• Drive capital strategy, banking, investments, acquisitions, new markets, international expansion, forecasting, risk, profitability, and enterprise value.
• Help create what the numbers become through new restaurants, new markets, national expansion, and global growth.
• Participate as a key member of the leadership team in a major restaurant organization scaling aggressively across the U.S. and globally.

Qualifications

• If you’ve built, scaled, or helped transform a significant restaurant or hospitality organization — and you're ready for a bigger stage — I want to know who you are.

Required Skills

• YOU KNOW RESTAURANTS.
• Multi-unit operations.
• Labor.
• Food costs.
• Leases.
• Openings.
• Margins.
• You can evaluate opportunities.
• Deploy capital intelligently.
• Build the financial infrastructure required to scale.
• Banking.
• Investments.
• Acquisitions.
• New markets.
• International expansion.
• Risk.
• AND YOU HAVE THE PERSONALITY TO MATCH.
• Smart.
• Curious.
• Competitive.
• Decisive.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in national expansion and global growth within restaurant or hospitality organizations.
• Background as a high-profile, dynamic financial executive in multi-unit restaurant operations.

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