Vice President Finance

Vice President Finance

We are partnering with a founder led consumer products business operating at meaningful scale across multiple sales channels. The company has built a strong marketplace presence and is expanding across DTC, wholesale, and retail.

As the business continues to grow, leadership is investing in strengthening financial infrastructure, increasing operational discipline, and building a finance function capable of supporting the next phase of scale.

This is a senior, hands on leadership role with a clear pathway toward broader CFO responsibility over time.

The Role

This is an operationally focused Vice President Finance position. The mandate is to bring structure, clarity, and predictability to a fast moving omnichannel business.

You will work closely with executive leadership to improve reporting accuracy, strengthen internal controls, enhance forward visibility, and support disciplined, profitable growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Strengthen reporting processes, forecasting accuracy, and cash management
• Improve internal controls and reduce avoidable errors through better systems and accountability
• Oversee accounting operations and ensure reliable financial reporting
• Develop clear visibility into product and channel level profitability
• Support inventory planning, cost optimisation, and margin improvement initiatives
• Partner with leadership on operational decision making across marketplace, DTC, wholesale, and retail
• Improve financial systems and reporting cadence
• Reduce manual dependency through process improvement and automation
• Build scalable financial infrastructure to support growth
• Enhance forward looking financial planning
• Strengthen working capital discipline
• Support thoughtful capital allocation decisions
• Lead and develop a lean finance team
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and performance standards
• Help shape the structure of the function as the company scales

What Success Looks Like

• Finance operates smoothly and predictably
• Leadership has high confidence in financial data and forward outlook
• Operational friction and avoidable errors are materially reduced
• Clear visibility into profitability by channel
• The finance function scales in step with business growth

Ideal Profile

• Experience leading finance within a complex ecommerce or omnichannel consumer business
• Strong controllership foundation combined with commercial judgement
• Hands on operator comfortable working close to inventory, cost structure, and margin drivers
• Comfortable in founder led, high accountability environments
• Calm, pragmatic, and systems oriented

Key skills/competency

• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Cash Management
• Internal Controls
• Accounting Operations
• Omnichannel Finance
• Inventory Management
• Cost Optimization
• Financial Systems Implementation
• Working Capital Management
• Team Leadership