VP of Finance

We are looking for an experienced VP of Finance to lead the financial strategy and performance of our manufacturing business in San Diego, California. This executive will translate complex financial data into clear business insights, helping leadership make confident decisions in a fast-moving, family-owned environment. The ideal candidate brings deep manufacturing finance expertise, strong commercial judgment, and a hands-on approach to forecasting, profitability, and cash management.

Responsibilities:
• Provide executive leadership with clear analysis of business performance, including key drivers, emerging trends, and recommended actions to improve results.
• Direct the company’s budgeting and forecasting processes across revenue, production, staffing, materials, capital needs, cash flow, and profitability, adjusting outlooks as business conditions evolve.
• Monitor financial and operational indicators to identify potential risks related to liquidity, margins, pricing, collections, inventory levels, capacity constraints, or lending compliance.
• Lead and strengthen cost accounting practices to improve the accuracy of product costing, labor and overhead allocation, inventory valuation, and margin reporting by customer and product line.
• Guide the financial review of estimates and quotations by evaluating labor assumptions, material inputs, overhead, outside services, inflation exposure, tooling, risk, and target returns.
• Partner with estimating teams to validate pricing models, compare quoted assumptions to actual performance, and drive continuous improvement in the estimating process.
• Oversee the financial evaluation of long-term customer agreements, including pricing terms, escalation mechanisms, volume expectations, margin impact, working capital demands, and business risk.
• Manage the finance and accounting organization, including leadership of the Controller function, while clarifying responsibilities, strengthening structure, and ensuring accountability across the team.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting, month-end close, inventory accounting, internal controls, audit support, banking relationships, insurance coordination, and statutory filings.
• Collaborate with operations, sales, engineering, supply chain, quality, and human resources to improve planning, accountability, and overall business performance.

Qualifications:

• Significant senior finance leadership experience within a manufacturing environment, with strong command of cost accounting, inventory, margins, labor, overhead, and cash flow.
• Demonstrated success leading annual budgets, rolling forecasts, month-end close, and financial reporting processes.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts in straightforward, nontechnical language to owners and cross-functional leaders.
• Experience reviewing estimates, pricing assumptions, and long-term commercial agreements with a critical and analytical mindset.
• Strong business judgment with the confidence to challenge assumptions respectfully and present practical recommendations.
• Background working closely with privately held or family-owned businesses, including adapting to shifting priorities and frequent executive interaction.
• Proficiency with financial analysis and reporting tools, including Power BI.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; advanced credentials such as CPA or MBA are preferred.

Compensation

$210,000.00-$230,000.00 Yearly

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