Chief Financial Officer, PE-backed Vehicle Transportation Services

Position

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Executive Officer and Board of Managers

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

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

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. Backed by institutional capital, 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:
  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. 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:
  Bring deep accounting and controllership expertise – a CPA and/or substantive controllership background is required – and apply it to produce timely, accurate consolidated monthly financial reporting and quarterly board‑level reporting packages. 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. Lead annual budgeting and multi‑year planning and forecasting, and uplift the existing accounting team’s capability as you go.
• Process Optimization & Post‑Acquisition Systems Integration:
  Treat process improvement as core to the role, standardizing and automating today’s manual, siloed workflows so that acquisitions can be integrated on a repeatable basis. Get the most from the company’s cloud‑based ERP platform and reworked chart of accounts, mapping acquired‑entity data and processes into established operating standards, and ensuring the people, process, and systems integration of each acquired business is planned, de‑risked, and executed cleanly post‑close.
• Private Equity‑Backed Finance Leadership:
  Experience as a finance leader within a private equity or sponsor‑backed environment is strongly preferred. Understand the reporting cadence, intensity, tight deadlines, and open, transparent, proactive, collaborative approach to communication – surfacing issues and presenting facts that come with institutional ownership. Lead covenant compliance, banking relationships, and disciplined cash‑flow reporting to keep a leveraged, acquisitive platform on solid footing.
• Strategic Business Partnership & Cultural Fit:
  Be a trusted business partner who sees around corners – surfacing issues, trends, and levers to pull on pricing, cost, and margin, then influencing the right leaders to act. Earn credibility across a largely blue‑collar workforce, leading with authenticity, low ego, and team‑over‑title instincts. Direct M&A deal experience (diligence, quality‑of‑earnings, transaction accounting, pro forma modeling) is a welcome plus rather than a prerequisite.
  
  A purely strategic finance executive who expects to delegate the details, operate…