Chief Financial Officer, PE-backed Vehicle Transportation Services

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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. 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: 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: You will 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. You will 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‑riske d, 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. You 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. Lender relationships will be led by the CFO and supported by the PE sponsor — covenant compliance, banking relationships, and disciplined cash‑flow reporting — that keep a leveraged, acquisitive platform on solid footing.
• Strategic Business Partnership & Cultural Fit: You will be a…