A portfolio company needs a finance leader who can produce a defensible number quickly and manage cash under pressure. You take the CFO seat, install the reporting discipline the sponsor requires, and either stabilize the function for a permanent hire or carry the business through a specific event — a covenant issue, a system conversion, an exit process.
What you'll own- Cash flow forecasting and management, typically 13-week rolling at minimum
- Working capital improvement across receivables, payables, and inventory
- Monthly close discipline and reporting quality — accuracy first, then speed
- The sponsor and lender reporting package, including covenant compliance
- Budget, forecast, and variance discipline the operating team can actually use
- Financial metrics and KPI architecture aligned to the investment thesis
- Board and sponsor communication
- Assessment and development of the existing finance team
Get to a cash forecast you trust. Get to a close you trust. Then start improving the numbers rather than defending them.
What you bring- 15+ years in finance leadership, with prior CFO or divisional CFO experience
- Direct private equity portfolio company experience — you know what sponsor reporting demands
- Manufacturing cost accounting depth, including standard cost, variance analysis, and inventory valuation
- Hands-on cash management under constraint
- Lender relationship experience, including covenant negotiation
- Comfort with a finance function that is understaffed, under-systemized, or both
Strong plus: ERP conversion experience; exit or sale process participation; distressed or turnaround situations; CPA or MBA.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of finance leadership experience
- Prior Chief Financial Officer or divisional Chief Financial Officer experience
- Direct private equity portfolio company experience
- Manufacturing cost accounting expertise, including standard cost, variance analysis, and inventory valuation
- Hands-on cash management under constraint
- Lender relationship experience, including covenant negotiation
- Ability to operate in an understaffed or under-systemized finance function
- ERP conversion experience
- Exit or sale process participation
- Distressed or turnaround experience
- CPA or MBA
What We Do
Value Driven Solutions (VDS) is an operational-excellence consulting firm serving middle-market companies, private-equity firms, and portfolio companies. It improves operational and financial performance through supply-chain optimization, operations, finance, technology, procurement, strategic consulting, and vetted interim executives. VDS also applies Lean Six Sigma, automation, robotics, AI, and analytics to strengthen efficiency, margins, capital efficiency, and enterprise value, with measurable, lasting results.
