Senior Director of Finance

The Opportunity Scion Staffing, Inc., an award-winning staffing, recruiting, and executive search firm serving clients across all 50 states, has an immediate opening for a Senior Director of Finance for our internal team. This newly created position combines strategic financial leadership with hands‑on ownership of finance, accounting, reporting, forecasting, cash management, and finance strategy. Reporting directly to the CEO, this leader will work closely with the Managing Director of Operations & Finance to transition leadership of the finance function, including financial responsibilities, projects, systems, and workflows.

Stemming from our company growth, the Managing Director of Operations & Finance will be focusing on operations, legal, HR, and payroll while this position leads the finance and accounting function. The Senior Director of Finance will build on established capabilities, lead a small finance team, and strengthen the financial infrastructure supporting Scion’s next stage of growth. We are seeking an optimistic, resourceful leader who wants to help grow a company and make a lasting contribution.

You will equip our executive and division leaders with meaningful financial insights, listen to their goals, and help turn their vision into financially sound plans. Your work will help us understand performance, evaluate opportunities , improve profitability, and invest thoughtfully in our people and businesses.

Location:

Portland, Oregon region or remote US

Schedule:

Full‑time. Fully remote work within the U.S. may be considered for highly qualified candidates. Local candidates available for limited in‑office finance work on Tuesdays or Thursdays a plus.

Reports to:

Founder and CEO

The Leader We Are Seeking You are bold, confident, and willing to think outside the box. You question established approaches, bring fresh ideas, and look for solutions that make ambitious goals achievable. You understand risk and empower our growth, while recognizing when a creative, well-supported approach can help the business move forward. You bring a growth mindset and an entrepreneurial spirit, along with demonstrated experience helping a company grow.

You can explain how your financial leadership supported expansion, improved profitability, strengthened cash flow, modernized systems, or enabled a meaningful investment. You are comfortable recommending a different approach and accountable for evaluating its results. You believe anything is possible and through hard work success is attainable. You also enjoy the work itself. You are as comfortable building a financial model, doing hands‑on work at any level, or resolving an accounting discrepancy as you are advising the CEO.

Lead the finance function for our company and help shape Scion’s next stage of growth through thoughtful financial strategy, meaningful insights, and collaborative partnerships that empower our decision making, strengthen profitability, and turn ambitious goals into actionable plans. Assume leadership of the finance function through a structured transition of responsibilities, projects, systems, reporting, and workflows. Meet weekly with the CEO and Managing Director of Operations to review financial performance, cash flow, forecasts, priorities, risks, and opportunities.

Meet monthly and as needed with executive and division leaders to review division financial performance, forecasts, priorities, risks, and opportunities. Provide actionable insights and guidance to help leaders manage profitability, understand financial results, and evaluate growth opportunities. Maintain a separate, ongoing weekly one‑on‑one meeting with the CEO for financial strategy,…