Build the finance function

• Personally run month-end close, reconciliations, payment runs and reporting during the first months, to learn the business from the bottom.
• Within 60 days, deliver a proposed final state design for the function: what is automated, what is hired, what remains outsourced, what is the sequence, and how much will it cost.
• Hire and develop the agreed upon team.
• Select and implement required systems including accounts payable automation and, where justified, ERP.
• Bring work currently held by fractional advisors in house, retaining outside support only for specialist technical matters.

Planning and analysis

• Build and own the annual budget and a rolling 13-week and 12-month cash forecast.
• Produce a monthly forecast against plan with clear variance explanation by site and product line.
• Build cost models by facility, process stage and product — including cost per pound of flower and cost per gram of extract — and keep them current.
• Provide decision support on capital investment, pricing, product mix, capacity and new-market entry, with scenarios and recommendations.
• Own the long-range financial model supporting expansion into additional states, sites, or business lines.

Management reporting

• Design and deliver a single monthly reporting pack on a fixed calendar: P&L by site, cash, production against plan, yield and potency, price realization and key operating metrics.
• Refine the KPI set each operating leader is measured against and present them monthly.
• Present results to the executive team and the board with a focus on insights, not just numbers.

Sales and operations planning

• Chair the monthly S&OP process, reconciling the commercial demand plan against the capacity of each facility.
• Publish the committed production plan and report variance against it, as a neutral party with no site or commercial interest.
• Surface capacity, inventory and working-capital constraints early enough to act on them.

Accounting, controls and tax

• Own the general ledger, month-end close, and multi-entity consolidation.
• Own inventory accounting and costing, including capitalization methodology across cultivation, processing and packaging.
• Direct outside tax advisors on Section 280E positions, inventory method and state excise obligations.
• Establish the control environment: delegation of authority, dual approval for payments, banking controls, vendor verification and segregation of duties.

Treasury and capital

• Manage cash, banking relationships and cash-handling controls in a sector with limited banking access.
• Support the CEO on financing, lender relationships and capital raising, including models, diligence and data room preparation.
• Support due diligence and financial integration for acquisitions and new-market entry.

• By day 60: A reliable month-end close within 10 business days, and payment release no longer dependent on the CEO.
• By day 60: The proposed design for the function delivered and agreed.
• By month 3: The monthly reporting pack established and trusted by the executive team; a rolling cash forecast in use.
• By month 4: S&OP running monthly with a committed production plan; cost models by site and product in place.
• By month 6: The function staffed and systematized as designed

• Has built or substantially rebuilt a finance function at a company between $10M and $75M in revenue.
• Comfortable owning the models: forecasting, budgeting, cost and margin analysis and scenario work. This role does not delegate the analysis.
• Cost accounting in a business that makes physical goods — manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods or pharmaceuticals.
• Technical accounting competence to own inventory costing and direct outside advisors: GAAP, standard and actual costing, multi-entity consolidation.
• Multi-site or multi-state operations.
• Experience with lender, investor or board reporting.
• MBA and or CPA preferred. Public accounting background valued but not required.
• Cannabis experience and Section 280E familiarity valued, not required.

• Will do the work. Runs a payment batch or a reconciliation personally without regarding it as beneath them. Candidates who want to arrive to a built team will not succeed here.
• Builds rather than administers. More interested in designing what should exist than maintaining what does.
• Operationally curious. Walks the facilities, understands where cost actually comes from, and is credible with people who grow and manufacture.
• Comfortable with incomplete information. Much of the historical data is imperfect. Improves it rather than waiting for it.
• Clear rather than comprehensive. Produces reports that lead to decisions. One page before twenty.
• Professional maturity. Steady, discreet and reliable..

• Sedentary Exertion: Exerts up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, or a negligible amount of force frequently, to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects (including paperwork and light office supplies).
• Stationary Position: Remains in a stationary position (sitting or standing) for prolonged periods, typically 75% to 80% of the workday.
• Fine Motor Skills: Constantly operates a computer, keyboard, mouse, calculator, and other office productivity machinery to analyze complex financial data.
• Communication & Exchange: Frequently communicates, expresses oneself, and exchanges accurate information verbally and in writing during board meetings, executive briefings, and financial presentations.
• Visual Acuity: Requires close visual acuity, with or without corrective lenses, to prepare and analyze data, view a computer monitor, and read extensive legal, regulatory, or financial documents.
• Mobility: Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, and meeting rooms.