About This Role
This leadership position in finance oversees financial operations across Federated Service Solutions and its affiliated businesses, including fssGO. The role involves both shaping the financial direction of the business and delving into details when necessary, providing clear recommendations to leadership. It suits a financial leader who can operate at both strategic and tactical levels, with an opportunity to grow into broader CFO-level responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Own financial strategy and performance across FSS and its affiliated businesses, focusing on improving margins, strengthening cash flow, improving the company’s debt position, and supporting sustainable profitable growth
- Develop thoughtful recommendations around capital allocation, including when to invest, preserve cash, pay down debt, and when opportunities justify additional investment
- Maintain rolling cash flow forecasts and actively manage working capital
- Own accurate, timely financial operations, reporting, controls, compliance, forecasting, and month-end close
- Maintain command of underlying accounting and transactional detail to investigate discrepancies independently and understand how financial results were produced
- Remain personally involved in activities such as payroll and close during transition, with the expectation to build processes and team capabilities to delegate transactional responsibilities appropriately while maintaining strong financial oversight
- Turn financial and operational data into clear, decision-ready information for the CEO, COO, and other leaders
- Explain why financial events happened, what they mean, what is likely to happen next, and recommend actions
- Build comprehensive financial reporting that tells a clear story while maintaining supporting detail
- Respond thoughtfully when assumptions, reports, or recommendations are challenged, using questions and pushback to improve analysis and decisions
- Lead and develop a team that currently includes accounts payable/accounts receivable, data administration, invoicing, purchasing, and warehouse responsibilities
- Establish clear expectations and accountability while developing people to independently own their responsibilities
- Solve day-to-day problems without unnecessary escalation, using sound judgment about decisions requiring COO or CEO involvement
- Help evolve the finance and operational structure as the company grows, including identifying when responsibilities should be delegated, reorganized, or supported through additional leadership
- Proactively partner with leaders across the company on pricing, contracts, organizational investments, headcount decisions, supply chain, financing, and other significant business decisions
- Maintain productive banking relationships and participate directly in debt, credit facility, covenant, and refinancing discussions
