Vice President FPA

ETI Professional Search; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

ETI Professional Search is seeking a Vice President of FP&A for a private equity-backed, high-growth company in Dallas. The role combines strategic planning, rigorous financial modeling, and board-level reporting with significant interaction across the executive team and sponsor.

The position is hybrid with 30% travel, expanding the capability in planning, analytics, and execution. The candidate will own the full planning cycle, build scalable models, and guide critical decisions on margins,

Qualifications

• Extensive FP&A leadership experience, ideally in a private equity-backed or fast-moving setting.
• Strong ELT and board relationship management.
• Owner/partner mindset, proactive problem-solving and accountability.
• Proven track record of building finance functions from the ground up.
• Experience with ERP systems, planning platforms, BI tools and data mapping.
• Excel expertise and familiarity with AI tooling.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the planning cycle end-to-end: annual, long-range, and rolling forecast.
• Build robust models to support confident decision-making.
• Prepare board and ELT reporting that clearly tells the story.
• Analyze margins, pricing, cash flow, and unit economics.
• Run scenario analyses before capital commitments.
• Partner with operators and assist acquisitions and integration as the company grows.

Skills

FP&A leadership

ELT relations

Board relations

Ownership mindset

Build from scratch

ERP/data mapping

Excel

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance

CPA or MBA preferred

Tools

ERP system

Planning platform

BI tools

Data modeling tools

Job description

Vice President, FP&A

Confidential retained search conducted exclusively by ETI Professional Search

Private Equity-Backed

Dallas, Texas

Hybrid with Travel (30%) - more travel will be required for the first 18 months.

About the Company

Our client is a private equity-backed company that has outgrown the way it once ran its finance function, and the leadership team knows it. They have a sponsor who believes in the business, has committed capital to it, and has a clear sense of what the next few years need to look like. What they are missing is the finance leader who can see around corners on their behalf.

This is a genuine build, with real backing, at a company with momentum and a defined path ahead. We have done the diligence on this search ourselves, and the fundamentals are as strong as the ambition. The sector, the sponsor, and the finer details are specifics we will walk you through directly once our client has given us the consent to share them.

What You Would Be Doing in Your Role

This role sits at the nucleus of how the company plans, decides, and reports on its own performance. When the CFO, the executive team, or the sponsor needs to understand where the business is heading, you are the person who tells them, and the one they trust to be right.

In practice, that means:

• Owning the planning cycle end to end: the annual plan, the long-range plan, and the forecast the business is actually managed against
• Building models that hold up under scrutiny, so leadership can make decisions on them with confidence rather than second-guessing the numbers
• Preparing board and ELT reporting that tells the story clearly
• Working through margin, pricing, cash, and unit economics
• Running the scenarios before capital is committed
• Partnering closely with the operators
• Supporting acquisitions and integration as the company grows, and helping build the systems and team to keep pace with it

What Experience You Would Need to Bring to the Table

• Substantial FP&A leadership experience, ideally within a private equity-backed or comparably fast-moving environment
• Strong ELT and board relationship management
• The instincts of an owner/partner to the CEO and CFO. Someone who takes the problem off other people's desks, challenges an answer when it is wrong, and wants their fingerprints on the outcome
• A track record of building rather than maintaining. You have stood functions up from the ground and do not need a large team around you to deliver
• Command of the tools these companies run on: a modern ERP being able to pull data and work with the technology team to ensure data mapping and reporting are telling the story, a capable planning platform, and the BI and modeling strength to support them.
• SME on Excel, AI tools
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance with CPA, MBA, or comparable credentials preferred

Why Is This the Time to Look

You will have the attention of the board and the sponsor from the outset and a direct line to the CEO and CFO. For a leader who has been waiting for a seat where the work genuinely matters, the upside is real; this warrants a conversation.

Compensation: $300,000 per year