Job Description
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
$130,000 - $160,000 + Bonus Potential
Why Join?
✔ Highly visible executive leadership role
✔ Opportunity to influence company strategy and long-term growth
✔ Partner directly with ownership and executive leadership
✔ Lead both accounting and finance functions
✔ Strong autonomy and ability to make a measurable impact
✔ Opportunity to modernize processes and improve financial performance
✔ Stable organization with an established reputation
✔ Collaborative leadership team and employee-focused culture
✔ Competitive compensation and benefits package
About the Opportunity
Our client is seeking a hands-on Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead the organization's accounting, finance, and business operations functions.
The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable overseeing day-to-day accounting operations while also serving as a strategic advisor to ownership and executive leadership. This individual will play a key role in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, operational improvement, and long-term planning.
This opportunity is ideal for a finance leader who enjoys rolling up their sleeves, building strong teams, and driving growth through sound financial management.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all accounting and finance operations
- Oversee month-end and year-end close processes
- Manage financial reporting and financial statement preparation
- Direct budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning
- Develop and monitor KPIs and business performance metrics
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and regulatory requirements
- Oversee internal controls, risk management, and audit activities
- Partner with leadership on strategic planning and growth initiatives
- Manage banking relationships, treasury functions, and cash management
- Provide financial analysis and recommendations to executive leadership
- Drive process improvements and operational efficiencies
- Lead, mentor, and develop accounting and finance staff
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA preferred
- Progressive accounting and finance leadership experience
- Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting
- Experience overseeing accounting, FP&A, budgeting, and treasury functions
- Proven leadership and team development skills
- Strong business acumen and strategic mindset
- Excellent communication and executive presentation abilities
- Hands-on approach with the ability to operate both strategically and tactically
If you're looking for an opportunity to have a seat at the table, influence key business decisions, and help shape the future of an organization, we'd love to speak with you.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Avon, CT |
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://www.cfstaffing.com/ |
About Company
Founded by CPA firms in 1994, Creative Financial Staffing has spent over 30 years helping job seekers and employers succeed. In fall 2025, we rebranded as CFS—a name that reflects our full range of expertise while staying true to the trusted company you know.
CFS is the industry’s leading employee-owned staffing firm, connecting top talent in accounting, finance, technology, and human resources. We provide skilled professionals on both a temporary and permanent basis across diverse industries, leveraging our extensive network to match the right people with the right opportunities.
Our dedication to excellence extends to our award-winning culture, recognized repeatedly for growth, recruiting, workplace environment, and employee support. Honors include Forbes’ “America’s Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms,” Staffing Industry Analysts’ top U.S. staffing rankings, FlexJobs’ Top 100 Companies for Remote and Hybrid Work, Top Workplaces USA, Newsweek’s Best Practices awards, and more.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounting Closeunmatched
- Auditingunmatched
- Bank Managementunmatched
- Budget Reportingunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- Business Skillsunmatched
- Business Strategyunmatched
- Cash Flowunmatched
- Cash Managementunmatched
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Compensation and Benefitsunmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Financial Analysisunmatched
- Financial Managementunmatched
- Financial Operationsunmatched
- Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Financial Statementsunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)unmatched
- Head of Financeunmatched
- IBM DB2unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Relationship Managementunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Team Buildingunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Treasuryunmatched
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