ADPma, LLC Hiring for VP Finance Job at Remote Full Time

ADPma, LLC is a high-growth aerospace company specializing in the design, certification, manufacturing, and sale of proprietary aircraft parts to the commercial and defense aerospace industries. Founded over 20 years ago in the East Tennessee foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, we have a well-established and hard-earned reputation for customer centricity and engineering excellence.

With the support of new ownership and a growing leadership team, we are aggressively expanding our product portfolio, adding value to our customers, and growing the company.

Our daily purpose is to enable safe, reliable, sustainable, and cost-effective flight worldwide.

To help us work toward our purpose and further accelerate our trajectory, we are recruiting a Vice President, Finance to join our leadership team. This individual will report directly to the President and will fill a key role on the senior management team to lead the company through its next stage of growth, expansion, and scaling.

This is a full-time position working on-site at our headquarters in the Johnson City, TN area (or in a remote/hybrid capacity), alongside a growing team of approximately 20 engineers, quality control, sales, and administrative team members. We expect the annual salary compensation to be between $175,000-$225,000, depending on experience, skills, and cultural fit. Additionally, health insurance, profit-share, paid time off, and relocation assistance are also available.

This is a unique position at a critical point in ADPma’s growth journey. We are looking for the rare person who is equal parts manager and doer; who thrives on bringing order to chaos with their own two hands on a daily basis, while also thinking strategically over the long term; who can be directly responsible for all things within the finance and accounting function, while also driving excellence across the entire business; whose thirst for building scalable systems and processes rivals our existing engineering prowess and customer centricity; who brings an unbending commitment to objectivity, rigor, and rationality; and who has the fortitude to always vocalize what is true, especially when uncomfortable or unpopular.

This role will be a synthesis of the following responsibilities and tasks:

• Partner with the President to:
  • Help define and execute our overall business vision and strategy.
  • Recruit, hire, retain, incentivize, and develop the team.
  • Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
  • Grow and enhance our existing culture of compliance, safety, ethical behavior, and good judgment.
• Drive excellence in the systems, processes, team, and accountability mechanisms across all aspects of our business, primarily within finance and accounting.
• Build out and lead our product development process and analysis; help us decide how we should spend our time and money to add the most value to our customers and company over the long term.
• Infuse our organization (via systems and coaching) with analytical rigor, financial precision, business judgment, disciplined decision-making, and an investor’s mindset.
• Create KPI systems and processes to rigorously measure performance, identify trends and opportunities, and allocate resources efficiently and valuably.
• Track, analyze, and organize our costs and expenses, and regularly communicate your findings, concerns, and solutions to our team.
• Build a team, processes, and systems to execute the nuts-and-bolts of the financial side of our business, including payroll, AP, and AR, as well as accurate and timely month-end and year-end closing process and financial reporting.
• Build, implement, and enforce sensible internal controls, best practices, and procedures.

The following characteristics will resonate with the perfect candidate:

• You’re a unique blend of manager and doer.
• You’re a builder, who likes to deliver real and tangible value to the world, disrupt industries, and serve customers.
• You’re an optimizer, who loves to create order and clarity through the use of systems, processes, and data.
• You love business, growing, learning, and improving.
• You strive to be objective and rational, and to identify and mitigate biases, blind spots, and noise in decision-making.
• You eat, sleep, and breathe market-based economic principles, like capital allocation, ROIC, opportunity cost, and value pricing.
• You’re eager to dive into a high-performing, rapidly-growing business, roll up your sleeves, and Get. Stuff. Done.
• You have a strong and clear voice focused on excellence, precision, education, and accountability.
• You have an investor’s mindset, constantly canvassing the world for opportunities to create value.
• You have strong judgment and people often come to you for your opinion.
• You love to use your deep understanding of financial data to deconstruct the unit economics of a business, identify “where the puck is going,” and then execute solutions to go there.
• You have experience with, or are eager to become an expert in, federal contracting, compliance, and cost accounting.
• You have past experience in a senior finance or accounting position, and you love numbers and financial statements.
• You have past experience standing up, stitching together, integrating, and rolling out web-based ERP and finance systems and software (e.g., QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Quantum).
• You have past experience developing metrics or KPIs, assigning responsible parties, and holding people accountable to results.
• You know what excellence and scale looks and feels like because you’ve been there before.

While it’s essential for us to outline the characteristics and competencies of the perfect candidate, it might be equally important to list the types of candidates who need not apply:

• A seat-filler, content to spend your time in a slow-moving, bureaucratic, low-growth environment.
• An order-taker, paralyzed by indecision until someone directs your day-to-day activity and tells you what to do.
• A maintainer, uneasy about growth rates above 10% CAGR.
• A bean-counter, committed to simply entering the numbers and nothing more.
• A political animal, who advances via corporate politics rather than value creation.
• A head in the sand, who wants to “just do my job” and not actively search for other ways to improve our business and team.

Finally, we think the following career experiences would be a “bonus” for this role (but are not a requirement):

• Skilled in investment and/or financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and building complex models.
• Demonstrated ability to scale product-based operations in a high-growth environment.
• Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or federal contracting.
• Experience at a business which underwent hyper-growth (>100% YoY sustained for multiple years).
• Experience investing in private or public markets or business ownership.
• Knowledge of the accounting and regulatory environments that affect Accounting, Tax, and Finance.
• CPA and/or CFA designations.

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If you are qualified and interested, please apply by filling out the blanks on the right side of this page, and clicking “Submit Application.” We look forward to hearing from you and will be in touch with the “next steps.”

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