CFO, Healthcare Staffing
Job Description
Our client is a Midwest-headquartered healthcare staffing firm supporting nursing homes, assisted living, and other care settings. The business runs on high-volume labor economics—hours worked, bill/pay rates, gross margin, mix, compliance, and disciplined cost control—requiring fast, reliable operating data and strong cash/working-capital management.
Reporting to the CEO, the CFO will lead finance and serve as a hands-on business partner to the executive team—translating operating drivers into clear actions that improve profitability, cash generation, and scalability. The role also oversees IT; technology strategy, systems execution, data governance, cybersecurity coordination, and IT investment prioritization. The CFO will be a key leader in preparing for and executing a future transaction.
Key Responsibilities:
Finance, Reporting & Controls
- Own GAAP reporting and a disciplined monthly close; strengthen controls and policies
- Lead accounting, FP&A, treasury, audit/tax/insurance/banking partner relationships
- Ensure multi-state tax/compliance implications are well managed
- FP&A, KPIs & Performance
- Run budget, reforecasting, long-range planning, and scenario modeling
- Build staffing-specific KPI rigor (hours, bill/pay, margin, client profitability, EBITDA, cash)
- Partner with Ops/Sales on pricing, forecasting, client economics, and growth decisions
Cash, Capital & Risk
- Drive liquidity visibility, cash forecasting, and working-capital discipline
- Improve A/R performance and manage credit/payment terms
- Oversee lender reporting/covenants (as applicable) and major risk programs (incl. workers’ comp)
- Strategic Leadership / Transaction Readiness
- Elevate quality-of-earnings mindset; prepare board/ownership-ready reporting
- Support diligence, management presentations, advisor coordination, and execution through close
IT Oversight
- Lead a 5-person IT team and set the annual roadmap
- Sponsor major implementations/integrations with tight governance, adoption, and ROI
- Oversee cybersecurity, business continuity, vendor management, and IT budgeting
Ideal Background:
- 12–15+ years of progressive finance leadership (CFO/VP Finance/divisional CFO)
- Strong GAAP reporting, FP&A, cash/working capital, controls, and business partnering
- Prefer staffing/healthcare services/professional services or another labor-intensive, multi-location model
- Comfortable with labor economics, pricing, gross margin, and client-level profitability
- Track record leading enterprise systems implementations; strong tech fluency (not hands-on engineering)
- Private equity/board/lender experience and transaction support strongly preferred
- CPA and/or MBA preferred
Job Number 8107
Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Jennifer Tucker
Director and Executive Recruiter
Jennifer has more than 20 years of experience in the staffing industry. She comes to MeeDerby having spent the bulk of her career working in temporary staffing and corporate recruiting for a national staffing firm. Beginning her career as an on-site manager in Lenexa, Kansas, Jennifer has experience recruiting in multiple geographies throughout the U.S. with expertise recruiting in the IT, Legal, Accounting and Finance, Administrative, Manufacturing, Light Industrial and Healthcare verticals. Jennifer is a graduate of Kansas State University and a mom of three. She loves traveling, playing games with her family, and Friday night date nights with her husband.
