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The Role
The Chief Financial Officer will lead financial strategy and operations, oversee accounting and compliance, manage investor relations, and develop a high-performing finance team.
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About Catalant:
As the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, Catalant gives the world’s leading companies on-demand access to a community of highly vetted independent consultants and former operators. Together, we deliver strategic solutions that solve our clients’ most important challenges through flexible and fit-to-purpose consulting engagements. Growing rapidly over the last 10 years, our client base now includes more than 30% of the Fortune 500, top private equity firms, and a range of other organizations seeking independent, external perspectives and professional expertise to help their businesses grow and succeed.
We’ve reimagined consulting for today’s world: it’s digitally enabled and powered by the insights and capabilities of over 100,000 seasoned professionals drawn from leading consultancies and global businesses Our consultants offer clients a competitive edge: actionable insights and hands-on support from leaders who have successfully solved similar problems before. Our business is lean, agile, and optimized to deliver best-in-class value in a way that disrupts how executives think about consulting.
Backed by world-class venture investors, we’re building the team that will take Catalant and the future of consulting to the next level.
Role Description
Catalant is growing rapidly, with strong unit economics, top-tier clients, and a profitable, scalable business model. As we enter our next phase of growth — deepening enterprise partnerships, launching new productized services, and expanding globally — we’re seeking a strategic, hands-on Chief Financial Officer to lead our financial strategy and operations.
The CFO will be a key member of the executive leadership team, partnering directly with the CEO and President to shape Catalant’s growth trajectory and ensure financial discipline as we scale. This leader will oversee all aspects of finance — including FP&A, accounting, capital markets, strategic finance, and risk management — and play a pivotal role in strategic planning, investor relations, and corporate development.
This is both a strategic and operational role: Catalant is a lean, fast-moving organization, and the CFO will be expected to roll up their sleeves while providing thought leadership on long-term financial and company strategy.
What you'll do
- Strategic & Financial Leadership
- Serve as a thought partner to the CEO and leadership team in defining and executing Catalant’s financial and strategic roadmap.
- Lead the annual and long-range financial planning process, aligning financial goals with company objectives and investor expectations.
- Develop strategic insights into Catalant’s business model, platform dynamics, and margin structure to guide pricing, investment, and capital allocation decisions.
- Financial Operations & Controls
- Oversee accounting, reporting, and financial operations, ensuring GAAP compliance and operational excellence.
- Strengthen Catalant’s financial infrastructure, systems, and controls to support scalability and speed of insight.
- Lead FP&A to provide forward-looking, data-driven decision support to business leaders.
- Develop and implement the right reporting cadence to help drive performance and accountability and to inform changes to how we operate and to our strategy.
- Capital Markets & Investor Relations
- Manage banking relationships, including debt facilities, covenants, and refinancing strategies.
- Lead board and investor communications, ensuring transparency and credibility.
- Evaluate capital structure and financing opportunities to support growth, including potential M&A or strategic investments.
- Leadership & Culture
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance team.
- Foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement consistent with Catalant’s values.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Operations leaders to drive operational efficiency and alignment.
What you'll bring
- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity (CFO, VP Finance, or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading finance in a high-growth, technology-enabled services or marketplace business.
- Deep understanding of services business models, unit economics, and working capital dynamics.
- Experience managing debt facilities, investor relations, and board communications.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills — able to move fluidly between details and long-term vision.
- Hands-on leadership style: thrives in a lean, fast-moving environment.
- MBA preferred, but not required.
Benefits
At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- 13 company holidays + a week off from Christmas through New Years
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family
- Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental
- 401k to save for retirement
- Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts
- A lifestyle spending account to be used towards cell phone, internet, commuting, and learning & development
- Wellness stipend for your mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing needs and support
- Work from Home stipend
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Catalant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Catalant makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business objectives and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, qualified physical or mental disability, genetic condition or predisposition, or any other status protected by law. All Catalant employees are prohibited from engaging in any form of discrimination.
Our Flexible Work Model
We align our work environment with both the requirements of the role and the needs of our people. For positions local to our Boston headquarters, we utilize a flexible hybrid model to support team collaboration. Other roles are designed for full remote work.
The Interview & Onboarding Experience
We aim for a hiring process that is both rigorous and respectful of your time. Interviews and onboarding are conducted either virtually or in person, determined by the nature of the role and the individual circumstances of the candidate. Our People Team is here to coordinate the best path forward for you.
Top Skills
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What the Team is Saying
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Associate Client Partner, Private Equity
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Client Partner
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Principal Product Manager
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Associate Client Partner, Private Equity
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Vice President, Practice Community and Expert Services
Victoria
Chief Legal Officer & Head of People
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The Company
What We Do
Catalant, the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, has helped the biggest and best companies use independent consultants for their most important work for over 10 years. More than 30% of the Fortune 500, top PE firms, and leading consultancies partner with Catalant to gain access to highly skilled, experienced business professionals who’ve solved their exact problems before. Over 100k talented independent consultants count themselves as Catalant Experts. We reinvented the traditional consulting model with our modern, digitally-enabled approach to solving complex business problems, giving leaders (even those outside of the C-suite) direct access through a technology platform to the expertise of senior operators, SMEs, and former consultants. With backing from some of the world's top venture capital firms, we continue to bolster our industry-leading platform by growing the team that will take Catalant to the next level.
Why Work With Us
With more companies shifting to having a flexible and agile workforce, the freelance economy is taking off, making Catalant more relevant than ever. As companies are leveraging our marketplace more, the work our employees do is incredibly impactful. We take our work seriously but have a lot of fun and laughter along the way.
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Catalant Technologies Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston HQ come into our office on a flexible basis (typically once a week), and other employees are fully remote. Talk to our People team to learn more!
Typical time on-site:
Flexible
Boston, MA
Our Boston HQ is in the Seaport neighborhood — an area with a dynamic food scene and many of Boston's emerging tech companies.
