VP Finance

Every table is a mission-driven food company making nutritious, high-quality meals accessible and affordable. The company operates across retail, food service, K–12, senior meals, and franchise channels, supported by centralized food manufacturing and distribution.

Every table is seeking a hands-on Vice President of Finance & Accounting to lead the finance organization and serve as a strategic partner to the CEO, leadership team, Board, investors, and lenders.

The Vice President of Finance & Accounting will lead FP&A, accounting, financial reporting, treasury, audit, tax, and finance operations.

This role requires a leader who can operate at both the strategic and execution levels. The successful candidate must be comfortable presenting to the Board, advising senior leadership, managing and developing a team, and personally working through financial models, cash forecasts, reporting, accounting issues, and other critical deliverables.

The position reports to the CEO and serves as a key member of the executive leadership team.

• Serve as the company’s senior finance and accounting leader and a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team.

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and management reporting.

• Own the company’s financial model, cash forecast, liquidity plan, and performance reporting.

• Translate financial and operating data into clear insights and recommendations.

• Partner with business leaders on pricing, contracts, investments, cost savings, and growth initiatives.

• Develop reporting by channel, customer, location, and program.

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual close and ensure timely, accurate financial statements.

• Maintain appropriate accounting policies, controls, reconciliations, and documentation in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

• Review significant accounting matters, including debt, equity, leases, revenue recognition, inventory, and fixed assets.

• Lead the annual audit and oversee tax compliance and external accounting relationships.

• Maintain clear visibility into cash, liquidity, working capital, and financial obligations.

• Manage banking relationships, debt compliance, covenant reporting, and lender communications.

• Support debt and equity financings, including modeling, diligence, investor materials, and transaction execution.

• Serve as a primary finance contact for investors, lenders, and other capital partners.

• Partner closely with operations, sales, retail, food service, manufacturing, supply chain, and culinary teams.

• Connect financial performance to operational drivers such as food cost, labor, yield, waste, production volume, and delivery costs.

• Evaluate customer, contract, store, franchise, and program economics.

• Identify opportunities to improve gross margin, labor efficiency, profitability, and cash flow.

• Lead, manage, and develop the finance and accounting team.

• Establish clear responsibilities, accountability, and performance expectations.

• Remain highly involved in critical deliverables and willing to perform detailed work when needed.

• Improve finance processes, reporting tools, ERP usage, data quality, and automation.

• Build scalable processes while maintaining a lean and practical finance function.

The ideal candidate is a well-rounded finance executive with strong accounting fundamentals, advanced FP&A capabilities, and experience in a complex, fast-moving operating environment.

The individual must be equally comfortable leading a team, advising executives, and personally working in the details.