Vice President of Finance

Chosen Foods, LLC•San Diego, CA

20h•$240,000 - $275,000

About The Position

The Vice President of Finance is a strategic partner to the CFO/COO, CEO, and executive leadership team. The role builds and leads a Finance organization focused on cash generation, deleveraging, forecast credibility, commercial optimization, and enterprise value creation. It connects financial strategy and performance with customer, operational, and capital decisions to improve business outcomes. Chosen Foods operates with a lean, entrepreneurial model, making this a hands-on leadership role. The VP of Finance develops enterprise-level recommendations, leads a high-performing Finance organization, and personally executes important and complex financial initiatives. The position is intended for a high-potential, future-CFO-caliber leader who may assume broader Finance leadership responsibilities over time. The role directly leads the Finance organization, including the Director of FP&A and other Finance leaders as assigned, and is responsible for organizational design, succession planning, talent development, performance management, and clear ownership and accountability. It partners closely with Accounting and Tax. Work takes place in a temperature-controlled office building with an open floor plan and a professional office environment. The role uses standard office equipment and requires the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. The job description also specifies physical requirements, including regularly sitting, using hands, and talking or hearing; occasional standing, walking, and other movement; and lifting up to 15 pounds regularly or occasionally up to 25 pounds.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
12+ years of progressive Finance experience, including significant leadership responsibility across FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated experience partnering with CEOs, CFOs, executive leadership teams, Boards, ownership groups, and lenders on complex business and financial decisions.
Strong command of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, capital structure, leverage, capital allocation, and enterprise value creation.
Strong commercial and enterprise business acumen, with the ability to connect financial analysis to customer, operational, and strategic decisions.
Proven track record of building and developing high-performing Finance teams while operating strategically and hands-on.

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced financial qualification.
Experience in CPG, consumer products, food and beverage, or a similarly complex operating environment.
Experience with M&A, financing, strategic transactions, and Finance transformation.

Responsibilities

Partner with the CFO/COO to maximize free cash flow, liquidity, working capital, and disciplined capital deployment.
Manage debt service and paydown, total net debt, leverage, covenant headroom, and progress toward an optimal capital structure.
Evaluate significant investments, strategic opportunities, and resource allocation decisions using ROI, ROIC, cash generation, and value-creation frameworks.
Support financing strategy, lender relationships, refinancing alternatives, and capital structure analysis.
Lead enterprise planning and performance management, including the Long Range Plan, Annual Operating Plan, forecasting, and executive performance management.
Build forecast credibility through rigorous assumptions, clear ownership, and early identification of risks and opportunities.
Identify material performance gaps early and provide management recommendations.
Oversee FP&A while empowering the Director of FP&A to own planning, forecasting, reporting, and the business-partnering cadence.
Develop a measurable pipeline of opportunities to improve revenue quality, gross margin, EBITDA, working capital, and cash flow.
Partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain, connecting customer, channel, pricing, trade, product, procurement, logistics, inventory, and supply-chain economics to value creation.
Lead financial analysis and recommendations for significant commercial, operational, and supply-chain decisions.
Establish financial ownership and benefit tracking for margin expansion, productivity, and optimization initiatives.
Set strategic direction for Finance technology, analytics, automation, dashboarding, and AI with Finance and IT leadership.
Improve productivity through simplification, standardization, automation, self-service reporting, and AI-enabled workflows.
Challenge recurring manual processes and low-value activities before adding resources.
Ensure Finance systems, dashboards, and reporting tools provide timely, trusted, actionable information and scale with company growth.
Advise the CFO/COO, CEO, and executive leadership team on strategic and financial matters.
Take ownership of complex and ambiguous business problems, form a clear point of view, and provide recommendations and potential solutions.
Lead or support strategic projects, including financing, M&A, major commercial or supply-chain opportunities, strategic partnerships, transformation initiatives, and other CFO/CEO priorities.
Communicate complex issues clearly, frame decisions and tradeoffs, and encourage thoughtful challenge and ideation before reaching a recommendation.
Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing Finance organization capable of supporting growth toward and beyond $1 billion in revenue.
Coach and develop Finance leaders, building accountability, succession depth, and internal career pathways.
Build organizational capability through talent, technology, automation, and process improvement before adding unnecessary layers or headcount.
Partner with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, controls, audit, and enterprise risk; potentially assume broader Finance leadership responsibilities based on performance and organizational needs.
Oversee organizational design, succession planning, talent development, performance management, and clear ownership and accountability across the Finance function.