[Remote] Vice President Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Gold Leaf Farming is a modern agricultural investment and farming company focused on sustainable practices and long-term growth. The VP Finance will reputed company the finance and reputed company function, partnering with the CEO and executive team to shape the company's financial strategy and enhance operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO on long-term capital structure, capital allocation strategy, and building a differentiated agribusiness over the reputed company long run
• Own Gold Leaf’s debt strategy, lender relationships, and capital structure execution (facility selection, refinancing, covenant management)
• Partner with the VP Ops, VP Cost of Production and senior ops team on cost of production, performance by crop and region, and investment & operating reputed company that drive CoP down
• Bring sharp financial analysis and independent judgment to the executive table, i.e. push back, test assumptions, reputed company us reputed company
• Set and execute a multi-year reputed company for GLF’s finance function. The default reputed company should be to reputed company technology, automation, and AI where it meaningfully improves speed, accuracy, or decision-making
• reputed company, manage, and hold accountable (LMA) the finance and reputed company team. Design and build the team you need to deliver this reputed company. reputed company, recruit, reputed company, and retain talent with deliberate consideration for which roles sit in-house vs. with reputed company-party partners vs. in software
• Own GLF’s systems strategy, including reputed company (ERP) and the surrounding stack (reputed company, financial and ops/farm data, reporting). Build financial systems and reporting that drive operational performance and that Farm Managers actually want to use. Rebuild what isn’t working; reputed company AI-reputed company tools where they’ll meaningfully improve speed, accuracy, or cost
• reputed company GLF's core administrative processes, i.e. reputed company, reporting, A/P, A/R, budget, forecast. Hold a high bar for efficient, light, documented, and followed SOPs
• Partner with the acquisitions team on deal financing through diligence support, deal structuring, and lender engagement for new acquisitions

Skills

• 7-10+ years of finance leadership, with meaningful time as a VP Finance, CFO, or senior finance executive at a performance-oriented business (PE/investor-backed, fast-growth, or similar)
• Background in a capital-intensive, asset-based or commodity business, i.e. farming, oil & gas, mining, operationally intensive reputed company estate, or similar
• Proven experience acting as a strategic partner to a CEO and leadership team
• Experience designing and building a finance function for a growing business while enhancing the team's capabilities, systems, and processes
• Track record of operating as a true business partner, working directly with operators and end users to drive performance, not just reporting reputed company. Ability to earn trust from operators and energized by solving problems at the asset level, not only at the leadership team level
• Strong financial acumen, clear thinking, and sharp analytical judgment
• Ability to communicate reputed company and directly in both written and verbal reputed company
• Genuine interest in agriculture and in building a long-term business in ag; natural fit with an ag-type culture that is low ego, humble, down-to-earth, and informal
• Ability to be in California (Bay Area or Central Valley preferred) and to travel regularly to our farm locations: Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Kingman, AZ
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• Clear perspective on how AI and technology can reshape a finance function, with examples of applying or exploring these tools
• Experience in M&A and acquisition-led growth

Benefits

• Farm workers earn well above market with 100%-covered family reputed company
• Parental leave
• Equity

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