Chief Financial Officer

Scaling.com•Mapleton, UT

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Scaling.com is seeking a hands-on, builder-oriented Chief Financial Officer to build and lead the finance organization as the company scales from $15 million to $120 million in annual revenue. This role requires a strategic financial thought partner who can operate at the current stage while designing the necessary people, systems, controls, reporting, and capital relationships for future growth. The CFO will work directly with the CEO and partners, owning the strategic finance functions, accounting and controls, cash and treasury, capital access, and legal operations. The mission is to protect cash, create reliable reporting and controls, establish continuous access to responsible capital, and serve as the CEO’s trusted financial advisor.

Requirements

Approximately 12 or more years of progressive finance and accounting experience.
At least five years leading a finance or accounting function.
Demonstrated experience helping a founder-led, privately held, or PE-backed company scale substantially—ideally through at least a 3X expansion or from a stage similar to Scaling.com toward $75 million–$100 million or more.
End-to-end ownership of strategic finance, forecasting, accounting, close, cash, controls, and executive reporting.
Experience building scalable financial processes, controls, and reporting in a fast-changing company.
Proven success securing, renewing, or expanding business financing and building lender relationships before an urgent capital need arose.
Experience preparing lender-ready financial packages and negotiating pricing, covenants, collateral, guarantees, and reporting requirements.
Experience building a finance team and systems rather than merely inheriting a mature organization.
Strong understanding of US accounting principles, treasury, controls, and multi-entity organizations.
CPA strongly preferred.
Utah-based or willing to relocate and work meaningfully in person with the CEO and leadership team.
Low ego and high ownership.
Calm, direct, discreet, and fast without being careless.
Comfortable acting with incomplete information while making assumptions explicit.
Ability to move between detailed reconciliation, major wire, lender negotiation, three-year model, and candid conversation with the CEO.
Ability to bring bad news early, disagree respectfully, and reduce rather than increase the CEO’s cognitive load.

Nice To Haves

Responsibilities

Own the annual operating plan, rolling forecasts, long-range financial model, and scenario planning.
Deliver a concise weekly financial scorecard and monthly planned-versus-actual analysis.
Translate financial results into clear decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations on hiring, customer acquisition, pricing, compensation, debt, distributions, and capital allocation.
Identify risks early, communicate difficult news directly, and challenge assumptions respectfully.
Own the month-end and year-end close and ensure accurate, timely financial statements.
Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, payroll oversight, expense management, tax coordination, and financial compliance.
Maintain accurate financial records and work effectively with external accounting, tax, and advisory partners.
Build durable financial controls, approval authorities, documentation, and reporting processes.
Oversee annual financial statement audit.
Maintain a reliable 13-week cash forecast and longer-range liquidity plan.
Own treasury, banking, payment processors, credit cards, wires, working capital, and liquidity visibility.
Build trusted relationships with commercial banks, credit unions, SBA lenders, equipment-finance providers, asset-based lenders, private-credit providers, and other responsible capital sources.
Maintain multiple credible financing paths.
Prepare lender-ready financial packages and evaluate financing alternatives.
Serve as the internal owner of legal operations while working closely with qualified outside counsel.
Coordinate entities, LLCs, operating agreements, partner agreements, contracts, renewals, governance, insurance, disputes, and legal-risk follow-through.
Design and build the finance organization needed at approximately $30 million, $60 million, and $120 million, including Controller, accounting, and FP&A capabilities.
Complete a disciplined transition from the current finance leader.
Stabilize the finance function and ensure uninterrupted ownership of cash, reporting, accounting, tax coordination, banking, and legal operations.
Establish a reliable 13-week cash forecast, monthly close, weekly CEO financial briefing, and monthly planned-versus-actual reporting cadence.
Create a capital roadmap and lender-ready data room, begin meaningful conversations with at least five qualified banking or capital-source contacts, and maintain at least three credible financing paths in active discussion.
Present the finance-team, systems, controls, and reporting plan required for Scaling.com’s path to $120 million.