Chief Financial Officer, PE-backed Vehicle Transportation Services

Position: Chief Financial Officer

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer and Board of Managers

Location: Kansas City metropolitan area (company headquarters) ~2-3 days per week on-site initially, scaling back over time.

Travel: Periodic travel to operating and acquired‑entity locations across the U.S. and Canada as integration activity requires.

Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance bonus, and equity participation, commensurate with experience.

Chamberlain Advisors is conducting a confidential executive search on behalf of a private‑equity‑backed provider of services in the broader transportation and logistics sector, scaling across the United States and Canada through a disciplined roll‑up strategy. The company is in a high‑growth, acquisitive chapter, integrating newly acquired businesses while professionalizing its finance and accounting function for scale. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and serving as the lead finance business partner to management, the board, and the sponsor, the Chief Financial Officer will bring a hands‑on, builder’s orientation—equally comfortable owning the close, breaking process bottlenecks, and telling the story behind the numbers—to establish a timely, reliable, and insight‑rich finance function capable of absorbing acquisitions on repeat.

• Hands‑On Operational Builder & Entrepreneurial Ownership: You will own the finance and accounting function as a working leader rather than a delegator. In the early chapters you will get into the details personally—posting journal entries when required, standardizing the monthly close, and dismantling the bottlenecks that today push the close to roughly forty‑five days against a target inside fifteen. You bring urgency, a high motor, and a genuine willingness to be on‑site to fix the work at its source, setting the standard for the team you will build and develop.
• Accounting, Controllership & Financial Reporting Depth: You bring deep accounting and controllership expertise—a CPA and/or substantive controllership background is required—and you apply it to produce timely, accurate consolidated monthly financial reporting and quarterly board‑level reporting packages. You do not simply tell the score; you tell the story, pairing results with the margin drivers, cost‑of‑sales and revenue trends, SG&A analysis, and forward commentary (MD&A) that leadership and the sponsor need to act.
  
  You lead annual budgeting and multi‑year planning and forecasting, and you uplift the existing accounting team’s capability as you go.
• Process Optimization & Post‑Acquisition Systems Integration: ...

• Own the close: Establish a timely, accurate, and repeatable monthly, quarterly, and annual close, driving cycle time down from roughly forty‑five days toward an inside‑fifteen target and, ultimately, a tighter steady‑state cadence.
• Lead hands‑on: Stand up and enforce standardized accounting procedures and internal controls, personally executing core accounting work where needed to remove bottlenecks and stabilize the function.
• Build the team: Assess, develop, and uplift the existing accounting staff and controller capability, professionalizing roles and reducing reliance on manual, siloed effort.
• Ensure consolidation: Deliver accurate consolidated financial reporting across U.S. and Canadian, multi‑entity operations, including newly acquired businesses.

• Tell the story: Own preparation of the monthly financial reporting and quarterly board and sponsor reporting packages, pairing results with substantive MD&A—margin drivers, cost‑of‑sales and revenue trends, and SG&A analysis—rather than distributing figures without commentary.
• Drive budgeting and forecasting: Lead the annual operating budget and short‑ and long‑range (1‑, 3‑, and 5‑year) planning and forecasting processes in partnership with functional leaders.
• Surface the levers: Identify and quantify the pricing, cost, and operational levers that protect and improve margin, and translate them into actionable recommendations for the senior leadership team.
• Monitor performance: Cond…