Finance Manager

Chase Consultants provides eCommerce CFO advisory and consulting services to growing online and retail brands. The firm partners closely with founders and leadership teams to deliver strategic financial leadership, commercial insight, and operational clarity at scale. Chase delivers through a fractional finance team model. CFO advisory is led by the firm's principal, with consultants working directly with client finance, operations and ecommerce teams to build the systems, analysis and reporting that sit underneath it. Drawing on extensive experience with fast-scaling brands, Chase Consultants supports clients in driving profitable growth, improving margins, and strengthening financial visibility. Engagements range from strategic planning and cashflow modelling to automation of finance processes, reporting frameworks, and cross-functional KPI setting. Services are tailored to each brand's needs, from financial health checks to ongoing fractional CFO advisory.

How the Role Works

This role is client facing. You work directly with the clients; finance team, operations and ecommerce leads, founders and external accountants to scope, build and implement. You attend client strategy sessions to present your analysis and findings. The principal leads the advisory relationship with founders and owns the recommendations. You own the build, the numbers behind it, and the working relationship that delivers it. Expect regular direct contact with clients: working sessions, implementation check-ins, and walking teams through what you have built. This role helps set how the firm delivers, with a pathway to leading engagements as the practice grows.

Role Description

• Automate and streamline finance processes by rebuilding how finance runs as best practice across clients, setting up financial infrastructure to give clients financial visibility to make data-backed decisions.
• Identify manual work, design better processes, and implement them.
• Scope and roll out tools that support finance operations, including reporting layers, dashboards, and integrations between Shopify, inventory systems and Xero.
• Make decisions on systems and implement them.
• Run working sessions directly with client finance and operations teams to scope requirements, implement systems and train users.
• Act as the day to day contact for client finance and operations teams across live projects.
• Conduct analysis on margin by channel, region and product, contribution margin after marketing and fulfilment, cohort performance and customer economics.
• Analyze working capital and inventory efficiency.
• Produce management packs, cashflow forecasts and management reporting.
• Prepare analysis, scenarios and options that inform CFO recommendations to clients.
• Provide first-draft thinking ahead of client strategy sessions.
• Attend client strategy sessions to present analysis and findings, and contribute to the advisory discussion.
• Build standards and frameworks that become the basis for how the practice delivers for all clients.
• Work autonomously and manage priorities across multiple clients.

Qualifications

• Strong finance and financial planning skills, with experience in cashflow modelling, budgeting, and profitability analysis.
• Strong commercial instinct and the ability to tell the difference between a number that moved and a number that matters.
• Consulting or client-facing experience, including stakeholder management and the ability to tailor solutions to diverse business needs.
• Solid accounting knowledge, including financial statements, reporting standards, and controls.
• Experience with eCommerce or retail business models, including revenue drivers, margin dynamics, and customer acquisition economics.
• Proficiency with finance and reporting tools, and highly experienced with automation and AI-driven analytics.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field; professional qualifications (CA, CPA, CFA).
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple client engagements, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.