Fractional CFOs are helpful in optimizing or implementing more forward-facing financial visibility. While many financial professionals such as bookkeepers, accountants, and controllers are tasked with keeping past and current finances organized and well-documented, a CFO focuses on the future. A fractional CFO helps determine how to get you from where you are to where you want to go. Growing a business requires strategic use of capital. For many fractional CFOs, one of their most important contributions will be providing a financial forecast that will act as a blueprint to achieve the growth in the most efficient, accelerated, and sustainable way possible. CFO will work with COO & President closely and report directly to COO.
REQUIREMENTS:
Not everyone can be a Fractional CFO. To be seriously considered for this role, please have the following:
- Macro-focused individual who is currently working as a CFO and has an additional 5 hours a week to work
- Working experience with Quickbooks would be helpful in this role with reporting and budgeting.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As the Embrace Grace Fractional CFO, some of your responsibilities will include:
- Develop detailed short-, mid-, and long-term financial forecasts
- Prepare budgets based on forecasts
- Analyze potential future products, services, markets, and customer segments
- Implement systems that will support sustainable growth
- Improve visibility and analytical capabilities to convert large amounts of data into
actionable information - Explore causes of revenue leakage, cost overruns, and operational friction in a growing
business and develop potential solutions - Getting books in order
- Producing financial forecasts
- Bringing expertise and validation to the company
- Sitting in on board meetings
- Helping with strategic relationships
- Analyzing term sheets and contracts
- Overseeing due diligence