VP of Finance
Job in
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 44101, USA
Listed on 2026-07-25
Listing for:
Gilder Search Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-25
Job specializations:
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Finance & Banking
Financial Manager, Financial Reporting, Corporate Finance, Financial Compliance
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the Role
We’re a growing consumer products company looking for a hands on, tech savvy, VP of Finance with a strong FP&A background. In this role, you'll embody the company’s bootstrapped roots to lead the finance function and personally work on FP&A. This role is for a senior operator who still loves doing the work.
Ideally this role would be based in Cleveland, OH however remote candidates will be considered.
What You’ll Do- Lead the full finance function as our most senior finance leader.
- Build our FP&A capability from the ground up: budgets, forecasts, and cash flow modeling.
- Use Claude and other AI tools to build faster, model smarter, and automate manual work.
- Work with our small finance team to institutionalize our accounting and month-end close.
- Manage cash, banking and lender relationships, and tax planning.
- Prepare to undergo an audit.
- Senior finance leadership experience (roughly 10+ years), with the ability to own the full finance function.
- A strong FP&A background: you can build a budget, forecast, and cash flow model from scratch, on your own.
- Genuinely tech-forward: you already use AI tools like Claude in your work and see it as a core part of how finance should operate.
- A background in toys or licensed consumer products, with vast experience in royalty reporting, mass retail distribution, and overseas manufacturing
- A hands‑on operator's mindset. Comfortable with a small team and rolling up your sleeves.
- Enough startup hunger to build something, paired with the discipline to make it institutionally sound.
- CPA and/or MBA a plus, not a requirement.
- Someone with a track record of scaling the finance function from tribal knowledge to GAAP compliance
- A real company budget in place, built department by department.
- Forecasting and cash flow processes running on a predictable cadence.
- Financials that are clean, documented, and audit ready.
- KPIs are alive and measurable within the organization
- Reports to:
CEO. - Location:
Cleveland area, on‑site with our ops and finance teams. - Team:
Leads a small Finance department, partners cross functionally with Operations - Compensation:
Competitive base plus bonus (cash).
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