Chief Financial Officer

**We are a multi specialty healthcare clinic located in Jacksonville, FL in the United States with a solid history of growth and an positive outlook towards the future.**

**This is of course a remote position.**

**We are looking for an experienced fractional CFO to assist us with numbers so we can focus on growth and expansion.**

**We currently have an accountant and a bookkeeper, but we need someone to help us focus on being financially savvy in our decisions.**

A fractional CFO is an experienced CFO who provides services for organizations in a part-time, retainer, or contract arrangement.

**What Does a Fractional CFO do for a Company?**

Fractional CFOs most commonly partner with companies to help overcome financial challenges, achieve growth, optimize strategy, implement systems, raise capital, or navigate an audit or transaction.

**Overcoming Specific Challenges**:
Fractional CFOs are often brought into an organization when there are financial challenges that the company’s existing team does not have either the skills or manpower to overcome. In our case, we do not have an in-house CFO.

A fractional CFO is often brought into a company to help overcome specific financial challenges such as:

- Cash flow issues
- Low gross margins
- High expenses
- Outgrown existing systems
- Need to make cost cuts
- Navigating an audit

**Create Forward-Facing Financial Visibility**

Fractional CFOs are also helpful in optimizing or implementing more forward-facing financial visibility. While many financial professionals such as bookkeepers, accountants, and controllers are tasked with keeping past and current finances organized and well-documented, a CFO focuses on the future.

A fractional CFO helps determine how to get you from where you are to where you want to go. Growing a business requires strategic use of capital. For many fractional CFOs, one of their most important contributions will be providing a financial forecast that will act as a blueprint to achieve the growth in the most efficient, accelerated, and sustainable way possible.

With a short-term (next 90 days), mid-term (rest of this year), and long-term (next 3-5 years) view of the business, a company can better anticipate its trajectory and cash position or requirements. It can make it easier to manage through the lean times, help determine when and how to secure loans or investments, anticipate future owner compensation, and help plan and prioritize future business decisions such as staffing, production, geographical expansion, etc.

Fractional CFOs can help companies:

- Develop detailed short-, mid-, and long-term financial forecasts
- Prepare budgets based on forecasts
- Analyze potential future products, services, markets, and customer segments

**Helping Manage Growth**

Fractional CFOs are also helpful in scaling a business, ensuring profitable growth as the business becomes more complex. This work involves reinventing the tools, processes, and vendor relationships the business uses to deliver value to an ever-growing and increasingly diverse set of customers. This is often called “bridging the chasm”, as most companies start to see declining margins and increasing headaches as they grow revenue past a certain threshold.

The philosophy of “What got you here won’t get you where you want to go” is ever-present in business once past the initial start-up phase. Businesses launch additional products, open new territories, open additional locations, transact in new currencies, and deal with increasing regulatory requirements. These all require more advanced thinking, tools, and techniques.

We are looking to:

- Develop existing employees and hire new ones that bring essential knowledge and skills
- Implement systems that will support sustainable growth
- Improve visibility and analytical capabilities to convert large amounts of data into actionable information
- Explore causes of revenue leakage, cost overruns, and operational friction in a growing business and develop potential solutions

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 5-15 per week

Pay: R110.70 - R200.00 per hour