Strategic CFO | Growth, Profitability & Equity

Beacon Hill Staffing Group; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Private Equity-backed firm in Reading, PA seeks a Chief Financial Officer to lead the finance function through its next growth phase. The CFO will partner with the CEO and leadership team on strategy, planning, and governance, ensuring robust financial controls, reporting, and capital management.

A hands-on, operational executive with manufacturing experience is essential. Ideal candidates will understand inventory, product costing, and margin management within a complex product

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a CFO or senior financial executive.
• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare products, specialized technology, industrial products, or another operationally complex environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of businesses involving inventory, substantial product breadth, product costing, and margin management.
• Strong command of accounting, financial reporting, controls, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Experience working within a professionally sponsored, investor-backed, or similarly sophisticated ownership environment.
• Previous involvement with acquisitions, integrations, recapitalizations, ownership transitions, or other significant corporate transactions.
• Track record of developing finance teams, improving financial processes, and introducing greater visibility and accountability into an organization.
• Ability to work effectively across finance, operations, sales, supply chain, and executive leadership.
• Strong communication, judgment, and executive-level presentation capabilities.
• A hands-on leadership style and willingness to work directly with financial details when necessary.
• CPA, public accounting, or comparable technical accounting experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and executive leadership team on financial strategy, business planning, resource allocation, and organizational priorities.
• Provide timely financial analysis and actionable insight regarding company performance, opportunities, and risks.
• Translate financial results and operating data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Support the company's long-term strategic objectives and future corporate initiatives.
• Provide leadership across accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, and internal controls.
• Maintain high standards for financial accuracy, discipline, compliance, and accountability.
• Continuously improve monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting processes.
• Enhance the quality and usefulness of management reporting across the organization.
• Ensure the finance function and underlying processes can appropriately support a growing and increasingly complex business.
• Lead, develop, and mentor the company's finance and accounting organization.
• Assess organizational structure, capabilities, systems, and processes as the company's needs evolve.
• Develop talent and create appropriate levels of accountability throughout the finance function.
• Promote effective partnership between finance and the company's commercial and operational teams.
• Build processes that allow the finance organization to scale effectively with the business.
• Provide financial leadership for acquisitions, investments, partnerships, or other strategic initiatives as appropriate.
• Participate in financial evaluation, due diligence, transaction planning, and integration activities.
• Help ensure financial systems, controls, reporting, documentation, and business processes are prepared to support future corporate initiatives.
• Work with executive leadership and external advisors on significant financial and strategic matters.

Skills

CFO leadership

Manufacturing exposure

Inventory management

Product costing

Margin management

Financial reporting

Budgeting & forecasting

Acquisitions

Team development

Executive communication

Hands-on leadership

Investor relations

Education

CPA

Job description

Confidential Private Equity-backed firm in Reading, PA seeks a Chief Financial Officer to lead the finance function through its next growth phase. The CFO will partner with the CEO and leadership team on strategy, planning, and governance, ensuring robust financial controls, reporting, and capital management.

A hands-on, operational executive with manufacturing experience is essential. Ideal candidates will understand inventory, product costing, and margin management within a complex product