Remote CFO for Digital Agency: FP&A & People Ops

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency, a fully remote US digital agency with 30–40 people, seeks a Chief Financial Officer to own finance end‑to‑end, plus the people operations that go with it. You report directly to ownership and run it autonomously as the senior finance person.

You will manage FP&A, the monthly close, cash flow, and remote HR/payroll across several countries, delivering transparent insights for leadership decisions.

Qualifications

• Have run finance yourself: built the models, owned the close and answered to ownership for the numbers.
• Independent and driven. Nobody hands you a checklist.
• Strong Google Sheets or Excel, QuickBooks or Xero, and clear written and spoken English.
• Full time as your only job, with substantial overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Finance: clean books with our bookkeeper, the monthly close, cash, payables, receivables and controls.
• FP&A: revenue, margin and cash flow models and forecasts, monthly actual versus forecast, unit economics and the capacity model that says when to hire.
• People operations: onboarding and offboarding for a remote team across several countries, contracts, payroll setup, access in and out.
• Plain answers for ownership on where the business stands and what to do about it.

Skills

Financial modeling

Close & accounting

FP&A

People operations

Remote team management

Tools

QuickBooks

Xero

Google Sheets

Excel

Job description

Blacksmith Agency, a fully remote US digital agency with 30–40 people, seeks a Chief Financial Officer to own finance end‑to‑end, plus the people operations that go with it. You report directly to ownership and run it autonomously as the senior finance person.

You will manage FP&A, the monthly close, cash flow, and remote HR/payroll across several countries, delivering transparent insights for leadership decisions.