Chief Financial Officer; CFO

Our client, a payroll processing company, is seeking a strategic Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with expertise in financial leadership, payroll operations, cash management, regulatory compliance, and scalable growth. The ideal candidate must have a strong track record of leading finance within payroll, fintech, payments, financial services, or another transaction-intensive environment.

• Lead the company's financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, translating operating performance into clear recommendations for executive leadership.
• Strengthen cash flow and treasury management across corporate and payroll-related funds, ensuring appropriate liquidity, controls, reconciliations, and risk oversight.
• Establish financial controls and reporting processes that support accurate, timely financial statements and scalable growth.
• Drive profitability through margin analysis, pricing insights, expense management, unit economics, and financial modeling across products, clients, and business segments.
• Oversee accounting, tax, audit, treasury, banking relationships, and financial compliance while maintaining strong internal controls and audit readiness.
• Evaluate financial and operational risks specific to payroll processing, tax funding, client funds, payments, banking relationships, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and lead a high-performing finance organization with the systems, talent, accountability, and processes required to support continued company growth.

5+ years of progressive finance and accounting leadership experience, including significant experience as a CFO, VP of Finance, Controller, or comparable senior financial executive. Experience with in payroll services, fintech, payments, financial services, HCM, SaaS, or another high-volume, transaction-driven business environment. Strong command of financial planning and analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, treasury, financial modeling, and management reporting. Proven ability to improve profitability using KPI analysis, pricing strategy, margin analysis, cost controls, and operational financial data.

Experience selecting, implementing, or optimizing ERP, accounting, FP&A, treasury, and business intelligence systems. Strong executive communication skills with the ability to advise CEOs, owners, boards, lenders, investors, and senior operating leaders. Proven leadership experience building finance teams and establishing disciplined processes in a growing organization.

Location:

Brooklyn, NY Salary: $300K