Senior Vice President, Finance

ABOUT CFO’S DOMAIN (A Solomon Edwards Company):

CFO’s Domain, a Solomon Edwards Company, is a national accounting & finance consulting and recruiting organization serving CFOs and their stakeholders. Our search practice recruits and works with highly skilled finance, accounting, and business professionals looking to excel in their careers.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Our client is a fast-growing, PE-backed brand experience studio with a blue-chip client roster. They are at an inflection point, and the SVP of Finance is the person who keeps strategic planning, reporting, and controls in lockstep with that pace. This is not a maintenance role, it's a high-visibility seat for someone who wants to grow into the most senior finance position at a category-defining creative business.

The SVP of Finance will own the integrity of the financial function: the close, budget, and forecast cycles; leadership of the Controller and FP&A support; and the project-level economics like estimating, burn, utilization, and margin, that a project-based creative business needs to scale. Just as important, this leader translates the numbers into a story the CEO and Board can act on, ensuring leadership is never surprised.

We're looking for a hands-on finance operator, not a tower executive. This role is ideal for someone who understands how project-based creative businesses make money, brings PE-fluency and M&A instincts, and is ready to build as the company scales.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a senior finance partner to the CEO, executive leadership team, and Board, providing financial insight and recommendations that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Lead the company’s budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes, ensuring financial plans are grounded in operating assumptions and business realities.
• Oversee the Controller and FP&A resources, establishing clear ownership, accountability, performance expectations, and development priorities across the finance organization.
• Develop and maintain financial models supporting strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, new business opportunities, investments, and scenario analysis.
• Drive recurring financial performance analysis, including budget-to-actual results, forecast variances, revenue trends, operating expenses, profitability, and key business drivers.
• Improve visibility into project-level and portfolio-level economics, including estimating, project budgets, spend progression, resource requirements, utilization, and margin performance.
• Partner with operational and commercial leaders on pricing, project scoping, staffing, capacity planning, and resource allocation to support profitable growth.
• Establish stronger connections between headcount, staffing decisions, utilization, project activity, and overall financial performance.
• Oversee the month-end close and financial reporting process through the accounting leadership team, ensuring timely, accurate, and audit-ready results.
• Lead the annual audit and coordinate tax and other external financial reporting requirements across a multi-entity organization.
• Manage cash flow, liquidity, working capital, and other treasury-related priorities in support of ongoing operations and growth initiatives.
• Support lender-related requirements, including financial reporting, covenant monitoring, debt-related analysis, and ongoing stakeholder communication.
• Prepare and present clear financial reporting and analysis for executive leadership, the Board, ownership stakeholders, and financing partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve working capital, cash conversion, cost efficiency, and capital deployment.
• Support M&A and strategic partnership activity as needed, including financial modeling, diligence, transaction evaluation,…