JOB-1884
A young AI-focused company that acquires and operates American manufacturing businesses serving aerospace and defense customers is looking for its first senior finance leader. The mandate is to become the company’s investor-minded deployer of money across the domestic industrial base, a job that rewards speed of execution over avoiding risk.
Your scope
- Head up acquisition finance: shape deal terms, perform diligence and valuation work, and determine the right leverage for each purchase
- Take charge of capital deployment and planning and analysis, including the financial model, cash outlooks and investor updates that underpin later fundraising
- Oversee the onboarding of newly bought factories, converting messy small-business books into clean, uniform finance operations and hiring local controllers
- Build out the finance team across deals, planning and post-acquisition reporting, working next to the current interim finance lead
- Act as a sounding board for the founders and represent the company before top investors, with an eventual path toward a public offering
What you bring
- Five or more years in finance, starting with a bank or private equity firm and followed by strategic finance, corporate development or finance leadership inside a fast-scaling startup
- Strong transaction skills: underwriting acquisitions, structuring deals, handling debt and running diligence
- Reasoning from first principles and comfort with big swings for big upside, preferring startup-style ownership to bonus-heavy pay
- A bachelor’s degree
- Willingness to visit portfolio factories frequently
On-site in New York, NY, five days a week. Candidates must be US citizens or green card holders; no visa sponsorship.
