Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grüns is a company dedicated to providing comprehensive nutrition through their innovative products. The Chief Financial Officer will lead the finance and data functions, driving efficiency and financial intelligence across the organization while ensuring growth and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Leveraged what we’ve built so far, found areas for improvement, and fully operationalized a goal accountability framework that keeps business initiatives tied to financial outcomes, ensuring the leadership team is consistently tracking toward revenue and profitability targets
- Driven meaningful EBITDA margin improvement across all functions and improved LTV:CAC efficiency to fuel continued revenue growth
- Delivered self-serve dashboards, templatized reporting, and real-time P&L visibility across functions so every team has the data access they need without relying on ad-hoc requests. Business decisions are democratized and exponentially quicker
- Created the conditions for a high-performing, motivated team empowering vs. micromanaging, actively developing leaders, and driving strong results and performance without burnout
- Built the systems and processes to meet all external reporting and compliance requirements seamlessly, keeping the team focused on growth
Skills
- 10+ years leadership experience in a high-growth, profitable businesses; some level of physical inventory experience (CPG, retail, e-commerce, or similar) is a must
- Experience leading the functions in scope - finance, accounting, data, and BizOps functions
- Experience within a high-growth company that is adapting to public-company practices
- Relentless Growth Mindset: Always asking what it takes to get to the next level, whether that's another point of margin, better efficiency, or a faster path to revenue growth - a genuine internal drive to make the business the best it can be. Finding new opportunities across the business and proposing these opportunities to the CEO and functional leads
- Integrity and Business-First Thinking: Prioritizes the truth over 'looking good'. Navigates competing stakeholder interests honestly and thoroughly rather than taking the path of least resistance
- Empowering Leadership: Leads by giving people the tools, clarity, and confidence to make great decisions vs. controlling the work directly. Actively develops their functional leaders, makes their team better than they were before. Drives sustainable high performance
- Paper Wall Pusher: Treats perceived constraints as hypotheses, not facts. When told something takes six weeks or 'this is how it's done,' they ask why and push for faster, smarter, or different. Actively hunts for process bloat and inherited ways of working to find improvements
- AI-Native Operator: Uses AI natively in their own workflow and actively builds AI fluency into the team's operating model. Sees AI as a core lever for scaling the function's impact without scaling headcount
- Direct, but kind: Direct and honest in every conversation, saying what needs to be said, even when it's uncomfortable. Deeply committed to the business and the people in it
Benefits
- Incentive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being and growth of our team
- Super strong benefits coverage -- for you and your family
- Generous PTO
- Free Grüns subscriptions
- A few more perks centered around health and well-being that we can't wait to tell you about
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