Chief Financial Officer

Help Shape the Financial Future of a Growing, Innovative Broadband Cooperative

West Carolina is seeking a strategic, growth-minded Chief Financial Officer to join its executive leadership team and help guide the Cooperative through its next chapter of growth, investment, and opportunity.

This is not a traditional “keep the books and report the numbers” CFO position.

West Carolina is looking for a financial leader who wants a seat at the table—someone who can translate financial information into strategy, challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and work alongside the CEO, Board of Directors, and executive team to make smart decisions about where the Cooperative goes next.

For the right leader, this is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on a financially important, community-focused organization operating in an industry undergoing tremendous change.

As CFO, you will serve as West Carolina’s senior financial executive and a trusted strategic partner to the CEO and Board. You will lead the Cooperative’s finance and accounting functions while helping shape decisions involving broadband investment, capital deployment, acquisitions, affiliated companies, financing, grants, operational efficiency, and long‑term growth.

You’ll be joining an organization that is innovative, adaptive, and driven — one that doesn’t settle for “good enough” and doesn’t stop until a problem is actually solved—and expects its officers to bring that same mindset to the leadership table.

• Lead financial strategy, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, financial reporting, tax, internal controls, and enterprise financial risk.
• Partner with the CEO and executive team on strategic planning, financial modeling, pricing, investments, contracts, and major business decisions.
• Evaluate broadband infrastructure investments and develop business cases, return analyses, funding strategies, and long‑range capital plans.
• Lead financial due diligence, valuation, and integration planning for acquisitions and other growth opportunities.
• Oversee liquidity, debt, lender relationships, loan covenants, audits, and regulatory financial requirements.
• Provide financial oversight for federal and state broadband funding and grant programs, including reporting, reimbursement, controls, and audit readiness.
• Direct financial reporting and controls across West Carolina’s affiliated organizations.
• Oversee cooperative patronage capital, member equity accounting, and related financial responsibilities.
• Serve as executive sponsor for the Cooperative’s NISC enterprise billing and ERP platform, leveraging systems, financial data, and technology to drive greater efficiency across the organization.
• Champion the use of AI and forward‑looking technology across Finance and the organization—not just adopting it, but driving it, so West Carolina sets the standard for what a cooperative can be.
• Build, mentor, and develop a strong finance and accounting team with an emphasis on accountability, cross‑training, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Present clear, actionable financial information to the CEO, Board of Directors, Audit Committee, lenders, auditors, and other stakeholders.

The successful candidate will understand that great CFOs do more than report what happened.

They help determine what should happen next.

West Carolina is looking for someone who can see beyond the spreadsheet—an executive who understands the connection between financial discipline and business opportunity and who is comfortable asking the tough questions while helping the organization find a path forward.

You may already be a CFO, or you may be an accomplished Controller, Vice President of Finance, or senior…