Latch Bookkeeping · 1 day ago
Founding CFO
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expLatch is a bookkeeping and fractional CFO service provider focused on contractors and home service businesses. As the Founding CFO, you will lead client relationships, oversee financial functions, and help build scalable financial systems for the company.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary CFO for our client portfolio—delivering monthly financial reviews, cash flow forecasting, and strategic guidance
Oversee and QC the bookkeeping team's output before it reaches clients
Build and refine our CFO service delivery model—templates, dashboards, meeting cadences, client deliverables
Translate messy contractor financials into clear insights owners actually use
Identify operational and financial patterns across clients that signal growth opportunities or risks
Help hire and develop the finance team as we scale
Qualification
Required
Construction accounting experience is non-negotiable. You understand job costing, WIP schedules, progress billing, retention, equipment depreciation, and the cash flow chaos of project-based businesses
3+ years in finance/accounting roles, ideally with exposure to fractional CFO work, outsourced accounting, or SMB advisory
Comfortable being hands-on now while building for scale later
Strong communicator—you can explain financials to an owner who's more comfortable on a job site than in a spreadsheet
Entrepreneurial mindset—you're excited by equity because you see what this can become
Benefits
Equity: True ownership stake in Latch (specific terms discussed on call)
Starting base: Modest monthly stipend during ramp-up period
Full-time salary: Transition to competitive base within 90 days as client base grows
Company
Latch Bookkeeping
We help contractors stop guessing and start knowing where their money goes. Latch Bookkeeping is built for home service contractors doing $1M–$20M.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase