Finance Leader Candidate #092226
St. Louis, MO
Finance
14 years
9/22/2026
Profile
Entrepreneurial minded finance professional with experience developing and enhancing accounting, financial, and operational processes within a growing, founder led business. Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with leaders across sales, marketing, customer service, and production to support strategic decision-making and business growth. Brings a hands-on, business-minded approach to finance with a focus on improving processes, profitability, and scalability.
Career Highlight 1: Helped develop and implement a customer rewards program that strengthened customer retention and increased average customer lifetime value from approximately $300 to $600. The improved retention contributed to increasing ROAS from 3.0x to 5.5x while reducing paid advertising spend from approximately 25% to 15% of revenue, resulting in an estimated $300,000 in annual advertising savings while supporting sales growth.
Career Highlight 2: Helped drive profitable growth while the company consistently achieved approximately 20% year-over-year revenue growth. Over a three year period, profitability tripled from approximately $400,000 to $1.2 million while production turnaround times improved, contributing to a stronger customer experience, increased retention, and improved employee morale.
Career Highlight 3: Restructured the company’s debt, transitioning from reliance on merchant cash advances to a more sustainable venture debt structure. This was able to support investments in production staffing and inventory to improve production turnarounds. Built a strong relationship with the company’s capital partner, creating additional financing opportunities to support future growth by drastically improving performance to meet lender’s covenant requirements.
Why Hire This Candidate (In Their Own Words): Brings a collaborative approach to finance, working closely with department leaders to understand operations and connect financial strategy to business performance. Focuses on establishing meaningful targets, improve processes, and provide financial insights that support profitable growth.
Strengths: Hands-on, eager to learn, and willing to take initiative wherever value can be added. Continuously looking for opportunities to improve processes, solve problems, and further develop both professionally and personally.
Hobbies & Personal Interests: Enjoys spending time with wife and daughters. Working out and training for Hyrox fitness race. And recently has been taking up golf.
Education: BS in Finance & Economics
Credentials: CMA (Certified Management Accountant) exam in progress
Industry Experience: Manufacturing, Retail
Company Fit: Small < 50 full time employees
Management Experience: 3 years experience managing a team of 3-5 team members.
Software Experience: QuickBooks Online
Custom Built Proprietary ERP System
Open To: Hybrid, In-office, Remote
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