Vice President Finance

We're a growing consumer products company looking for a hands on, tech savvy, VP of Finance with a strong FP&A background. In this role, you'll embody the company’s bootstrapped roots to lead the finance function and personally work on FP&A. This role is for a senior operator who still loves doing the work.

What You'll Do

• Lead the full finance function as our most senior finance leader
• Build our FP&A capability from the ground up: budgets, forecasts, and cash flow modeling
• Use Claude and other AI tools to build faster, model smarter, and automate manual work
• Work with our small finance team to institutionalize our accounting and month-end close
• Manage cash, banking and lender relationships, and tax planning
• Prepare to undergo an audit

.What We're Looking For

• Senior finance leadership experience (roughly 10+ years), with the ability to own the full finance function
• A strong FP&A background: you can build a budget, forecast, and cash flow model from scratch, on your own
• Genuinely tech-forward: you already use AI tools like Claude in your work and see it as a core part of how finance should operate
• A background in toys or licensed consumer products, with vast experience in royalty reporting, mass retail distribution, and overseas manufacturing
• A hands-on operator's mindset. Comfortable with a small team and rolling up your sleeves
• Enough startup hunger to build something, paired with the discipline to make it institutionally sound
• CPA and/or MBA a plus, not a requirement
• Someone with a track record of scaling the finance function from tribal knowledge to GAAP compliance

What Success Looks Like

• A real company budget in place, built department by department
• Forecasting and cash flow processes running on a predictable cadence
• Financials that are clean, documented, and audit ready
• KPIs are alive and measurable within the organization

Details

• Reports to: CEO
• Location: Cleveland area, on-site with our ops and finance teams
• Team: Leads a small Finance department, partners cross functionally with Operations