Chief Financial Officer

Key Responsibilities
1. Financial & Operational Leadership

• Lead the company’s financial strategy in alignment with ownership’s long-term vision.
• Serve as a strategic business partner to ownership, sales, operations, supply chain, and HR.
• Translate financial data into actionable operational insights that improve profitability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Drive financial discipline and accountability across all functions.

The CFO serves as the executive owner of Governance, Risk & Compliance, ensuring Martin Inc. operates with disciplined oversight, strong internal controls, and a scalable governance framework aligned with a multi-site industrial distribution business.

• Establish governance structures, policies, and standards that promote transparency, accountability, and operational consistency across all branches and functions.
• Strengthen policy management across finance, operations, supply chain, HR, and IT.
• Ensure consistent branch-level governance, including standardized processes, controls, and reporting.
• Oversee data governance, ensuring accuracy and integrity across ERP, WMS, CRM, and financial systems.

• Lead enterprise risk management (ERM), identifying and mitigating financial, operational, supply chain, cyber, and compliance risks.
• Oversee insurance strategy, including property, liability, fleet, workers compensation, and cyber coverage.
• Implement risk dashboards and reporting mechanisms for ownership and executive leadership.
• Ensure risk-aware decision-making in capital allocation, pricing, credit, and operational initiatives.

• Ensure compliance with GAAP, tax regulations, credit policies, safety requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Strengthen internal controls across finance, inventory, credit, and operational processes.
• Partner with HR, operations, and supply chain to ensure compliance with employment law, safety standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain a centralized contract repository and ensure adherence to contract governance protocols.

• Oversee FP&A, including forecasting, scenario modeling, and performance measurement tied to operational drivers.
• Lead the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes with strong alignment to sales, supply chain, and operations.
• Develop and monitor KPIs specific to industrial distribution: gross margin, pricing discipline, inventory turns, service levels, working capital, ROIC, and branch-level performance.

• Establish and oversee pricing governance, including matrix pricing, contract pricing, and margin leakage prevention.
• Partner with sales to evaluate customer profitability, rebate programs, and supplier incentives.
• Ensure disciplined pricing execution across branches and customer segments.

• Support operational initiatives related to inventory optimization, logistics efficiency, branch performance, and demand planning.
• Provide financial analysis for capital investments, fleet decisions, automation, and facility expansions.
• Implement branch-level P&Ls and scorecards to drive accountability and performance.

• Ensure timely, accurate financial reporting in accordance with GAAP.
• Oversee tax planning, audits, regulatory compliance, and internal controls appropriate for a privately held family business.
• Build clear reporting and dashboards that link financial performance to operational outcomes.

• Manage cash flow forecasting, liquidity, and capital allocation.
• Optimize working capital with a strong focus on inventory, customer credit, collections, and supplier terms.
• Oversee customer credit policies and credit risk management in a high-volume distribution environment.

• Lead day-to-day accounting and finance operations (AP, AR, payroll, general accounting).
• Partner with operations and IT to optimize ERP systems, WMS, pricing tools, and reporting platforms.
• Champion process automation, data integrity, and technology modernization to support scalability.

• Build a data-driven culture with robust dashboards, analytics, and operational scorecards.
• Improve data quality across ERP, CRM, WMS, and supply chain systems.
• Enable real-time visibility into branch performance, customer profitability, and inventory health.

• Manage relationships with banks, lenders, insurers, and external advisors.
• Ensure compliance with loan covenants and reporting requirements.
• Oversee insurance strategy as part of enterprise risk management.

• Oversee and support the leaders of Supply Chain and HR to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Strengthen supplier economics, rebate optimization, and sourcing strategies.
• Support workforce planning, talent development, and organizational…