Vice President Finance

The Vice President, Finance is a strategic finance leader who can bridge analysis, insight, and execution. This individual will serve as a senior member of the leadership team, reporting to the Chief of Staff, and will oversee the company's financial management as a member of the company's leadership team.

This is not a traditional accounting role — it’s for a strategic finance leader who can translate financial insight into business performance and organizational flow. The ideal candidate combines analytical rigor, strong modeling capabilities, and executive leadership presence with the ability to see, interpret, and communicate financial data and insights across the business.

This role will directly lead our finance and accounting function (including the Controller), and will partner closely with operations, IT, and executive leadership to modernize our financial infrastructure, systems, and reporting capabilities. The VP sets the financial agenda and governs the process — the finance function drives execution.

This role is pivotal to the company’s next chapter. The VP of Finance will ensure the company’s financial strategy, processes, and insights scale alongside its growth, enabling the President and leadership team to make faster, better, data‑driven decisions.

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• Serve as the senior finance leader, providing strategic financial insight and decision support to the Chief of Staff and executive leadership team of our operating portfolio.
• Own the company’s budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, and long‑range financial planning processes across platform businesses.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insights for executive and board‑level discussions.
• Develop scalable models that connect financial, inventory, and operational data to support multi‑entity growth.
• Support relationships with key stakeholders, including investors, board of directors, and financial institutions.
• Drive financial performance across marketing, education, publishing, and operations — helping each function understand and improve their financial outcomes through a shared financial lens.
• Establish and govern three core reporting cadences: annual budget cycle, quarterly board reporting, and monthly performance reporting — building processes that are documented, repeatable, and not dependent on the VP to execute.
• Architect and refine systems and processes that enable reliable, automated, and connected financial and operational reporting.
• Partner with IT on reporting tool integration and financial data flows to support efficiency, consistency, and timely insight across the business.
• Design data pipelines that eliminate manual work and improve margin and inventory visibility across business lines.
• Maintain accountability for the company’s financial controls, AR/AP, compliance obligations, and risk management framework — including tax compliance and nexus management, regulatory and legal filings, intellectual property‑related financial obligations, and financial risk identification and mitigation.

• Partner with operational leaders to drive continuous improvement across purchasing, inventory, fulfillment, and customer service.
• Align financial and operational KPIs, enabling the business to measure and improve throughput, margins, and capital efficiency.
• Own the company’s approach to cost management — establishing visibility across business lines, identifying efficiency opportunities, and ensuring leadership has the insight needed to make informed spending decisions.
• Support diligence, integration, and scaling of future acquisitions under a holding‑company structure (anticipated in the next 12–18 months).

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