CFO boutique CFO services firm

Position: CFO for boutique CFO services firm

Fractional CFO | ex-McKinsey | ex-Private Equity | SAAS, AI, Payments

Senior Associate – Strategic Finance (CFO Track)

Role Overview

This role offers a rare opportunity to operate as the CFO across multiple VC-backed SaaS, AI, and payments businesses—not as an advisor, but as a hands‑on owner of the finance function. Collectively, our clients have raised more than 8 figures from top‑tier venture investors, and we work directly with founders, CEOs, and boards during periods of rapid growth and high‑stakes decision‑making.

You will sit at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations, leveraging your consulting skillset while building deep technical finance expertise and an operator’s mindset shaped by high‑growth startups. The role emphasizes applying structured thinking in an agile environment—owning models end‑to‑end and using them to drive decisions around fundraising, cash burn, pricing, go‑to‑market tradeoffs, and ROI‑driven growth. The objective is not better analysis, but better outcomes.

About

Bearing Line LLC

Bearing Line LLC is a boutique strategic finance firm serving as CFO to leading SaaS, AI, and payments companies. We operate as embedded finance leaders—owning the finance function and partnering closely with founders—rather than providing outsourced analysis. Our approach is bespoke, operator‑led, and highly strategic, combining rigorous financial execution with agile, real‑world decision‑making in fast‑moving startup environments.

Where Strategy Meets Ownership

This is not a traditional analytics role. You will work where analysis turns into action, and where financial insight directly informs executive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Cash burn management, runway planning, and burn‑reduction initiatives
• Fundraising strategy, financial storytelling, and board‑level reporting
• Pricing, packaging, and unit economics optimization
• Hiring and org design tradeoffs, including senior leadership roles
• Strategic shifts into new verticals or customer segments, and sales strategy
• Vendor management, contract negotiation, and spend discipline

Your work will directly shape capital allocation, headcount decisions, and company‑level strategy.

Exposure to Venture Capital & Boards

You will have direct exposure to the venture ecosystem through regular interaction with top‑tier venture capital firms. This includes preparing and presenting board materials, supporting fundraising processes, and shaping the performance narratives investors use to evaluate teams, metrics, and capital efficiency. These relationships are a core source of our client pipeline and provide sustained insight into how high‑performing venture‑backed companies are built and scaled across stages.

What

This Role Develops

This role is designed for someone with the strategy instincts of a consultant and the technical rigor of a banker, applied in a fast‑moving operating context.

• Run a finance function across multiple startups simultaneously
• Develop strong intuition around cash, growth efficiency, and scaling tradeoffs
• Communicate at an executive level with founders, boards, and investors
• Build and lead a finance team
• Possibly become the CFO or CEO of a VC startup

This is a true CFO apprenticeship, accelerated across multiple companies rather than a single seat.

Compensation & Growth

Total compensation starts at $120,000–$300,000, depending on experience, performance, and commission.

• Variable compensation: % tied to client growth and expansion, with no cap on upside
• Career trajectory:
  Opportunity to build and manage a team under you as the firm scales, with increasing ownership, responsibility, and earning potential over time

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Finance and Sales

Industries:
Business Consulting and Services

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