Finance & Accounting Leader — Path to CFO (PE-Backed)

Vaco by Highspring; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring seeks a Director of Finance & Accounting to build and lead the financial infrastructure, partnering with the CEO and PE sponsor to drive profitability and growth. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and strategic analysis in a fast-growing, PE-backed setting.

You will establish scalable processes, lead the accounting function, and develop a high-performing team to support future CFO-level objectives and value creation across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience across finance and accounting, with increasing leadership responsibility.
• Strong FP&A / corporate finance background with a solid foundation in accounting.
• Experience building or significantly improving a finance function, preferably within a growing or PE-backed organization.
• Demonstrated experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, KPI development, and management reporting.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles, and month-end close processes.
• Experience partnering directly with senior executives and influencing business decisions through financial analysis.
• Experience leading, developing, or building finance and accounting teams.
• Private equity, M&A, professional services, logistics, transportation, or other asset‑light services experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted financial advisor to CEO and leadership team.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic planning and growth.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.
• Develop meaningful financial and operational KPIs to measure performance.
• Provide leadership with analysis on revenue, profitability, pricing, headcount, productivity, and cash flow.
• Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities to improve profitability and efficiency.
• Provide leadership and oversight of the accounting function and month-end close.
• Coordinate with external providers on close, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Establish scalable budgeting, forecasting, reporting, cash management, and analysis processes.

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial Modeling

KPI Development

Management Reporting

Executive Partnership

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics

Job description

Vaco by Highspring seeks a Director of Finance & Accounting to build and lead the financial infrastructure, partnering with the CEO and PE sponsor to drive profitability and growth. The role focuses on budgeting, forecasting, and strategic analysis in a fast-growing, PE-backed setting.

You will establish scalable processes, lead the accounting function, and develop a high-performing team to support future CFO-level objectives and value creation across the organization.