# Financial Leadership Partner CFO-Level Consultant

> The Herring Group · United States (Remote) · Part-time · Posted 2026-05-29

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Executive Leadership

## Description

**Financial Leadership Partner (CFO Level Consultant) - The Herring Group Remote (TX, GA· ~ Hourly 30 -35 hrs./week during business hours)**

**Most people will not read this thoroughly or will think it is too good to be true.**

**What we believe**

**The Herring Group is a professional services and data analytics firm. We work with owners of landscape companies who have built something real and want to keep it — without being crushed by it.**

**We optimize two margins, not one.**

-   **Profit margin. We put our clients on a disciplined Path to 12% profitability. Most landscape businesses run at 3–7%. The solution is not a mystery; it is a system. We build the system.**
-   **Life margin. If the owner cannot take a three-week vacation without the business wobbling, we have not done our job. Profit that requires the owner's presence to operate is not profit — it is a salary with extra steps.**

**These margins are not separate goals. They reinforce each other. A business that cannot give its owner a life cannot give its employees one either, and neither carries 12% for long.**

**Autonomy and accountability. We help our clients build teams that think, decide, and own outcomes.**

**What you would actually do**

-   **Hold a portfolio of SMB clients (companies with $3M–$50M in revenue) as their outsourced financial leader. Own the models, forecasts, dashboards, and KPIs that leadership actually uses — not the ones that live in a forgotten folder. Help owners and management teams every month translate numbers into decisions.**
-   **Push them on pricing they have been afraid to raise, labor efficiency they have been afraid to measure, and margin they did not know was leaking.**
-   **Help us get sharper, too. Every client engagement is a chance to improve our methodology, our delivery, and our tools so the next client benefits from everything we have learned on this one.**

**Who this is for**

-   **You have done this work for 10–20 years, with titles like CFO, Controller, FP&A Director,  Principal Consultant, or Business Owner.  You have worked inside SMBs, not just for them — you know what the owner is actually worried about at 5:47 a.m.**
-   **You can build a model in your sleep, but models are not what you are most proud of. You arere proud of a conversation that changed a decision that changed a company.**
-   **You think like a business owner.**
-   **You find ~30 – 35 focused hours a week more appealing than 50 unfocused ones, and you would rather be paid for results than seat time.**
-   **You want work that is meaningful, interesting and challenging with a high degree of autonomy.**

**Who does not fit**

-   **Anyone who wants a W-2 with a ladder to climb. We measure personal success by client success.**
-   **Anyone who wants to build the model and hand it off. We stay in the room.**
-   **Anyone who thinks "mission-driven" is marketing copy.  We believe it.**

**The facts**

-   **Location. Fully remote. Must reside in Texas or Georgia.**
-   **Commitment. Minimum 30 hours per week, during business hours.**
-   **Reality. You will manage multiple client engagements at once in a fast-paced consulting environment. We will not pretend otherwise.**
-   **Clients.  We provide them.**
-   **Compensation. Competitive hourly pay with a pay-for-performance component.**

## Requirements

-   **Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics or an MBA preferred.**
-   **Minimum 10 years of experience in financial leadership, with titles such as CFO, Controller, FP&A Director, or Business Owner.**
-   **Hands-on experience supporting small to mid-sized businesses ($3M–$100M+ in annual revenue).**
-   **Proven ability to drive profitability improvement, margin expansion, and cash flow optimization through financial analysis.**
-   **Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, dashboards, and analytics tools.**
-   **Exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.**
-   **Ability to manage multiple client engagements concurrently in a fast-paced consulting environment.**
-   **Previous business owner or entrepreneurial experience is considered a strong plus.**
-   **Must reside in Texas or Georgia.**

## Benefits

**Health insurance, PTO, vacation, and a Simple IRA match.**

## Apply

[Apply at The Herring Group](https://apply.workable.com/the-herring-group/j/EA451938DA/apply)

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