VP, Finance & Operations

You are the read on the business, not just the record of it.

Backline Alliance buys regional youth soccer clubs, keeps their name and identity, and runs the business behind them. This is the first corporate hire, because nothing else works until the numbers work. You start as a team of one with an outsourced bookkeeping firm behind you and build the finance function from there.

Compensation: $125-175K base + bonus + equity participation. Location: Los Angeles preferred, in-person.

What you own: multi-entity close, reporting, and consolidation across every club. The accounting function itself, built from nothing. Revenue collection and recognition across acquired clubs. Financial diligence on every target we look at. The reporting package the board, investors, and lenders rely on.

What we need: you have owned multi-entity close in a PE-backed or acquisitive business. You have been the person the bank calls. You can normalize a messy target's financials and say what they really show. You explain finance to people who don't speak it. You run your function without being managed.

Where this leads: this is the path to CFO. You build the function as the platform grows and grow into the senior finance seat rather than having one hired over you. Attributes over experience. If you don't match every line, apply anyway.