Chief Financial Officer

CRE Recruiting
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2024
Our client, a national build-to-suit development firm with expertise across multiple verticals including single-tenant net leased (STNL), and specialized healthcare & veterinary facilities seeks an ambitious Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join their collaborative team in based out of Chicago.

Our client is experiencing tremendous deal-flow, and looking for a CFO with experience having created, managed, or run a fund-driven platform as they look to raise a small fund in 2024. The firm has a strong existing investor network of family offices, PE firms, and institutions, and hopes to find a CFO familiar with fund set-up, compliance, and ongoing administration.

The CFO will work closely with the firm’s CEO & Chairman, and will build and grow the organizational structure and networks needed to execute the Company’s business plan and ensure employees and service providers are all rowing in the same direction.

A day in the life of the CFO includes, but is not limited to:

  • Acquisitions: assisting with project or portfolio underwriting, PSA negotiation, due diligence and execution

  • Fund Formation & Administration: collaborating with legal and financial advisors on the initial set-up, ongoing compliance, and administration of the firm’s first and subsequent funds

  • Capital: assisting with raising debt and equity funding, negotiate loan terms, review loan and investor documents, prepare lender and investor decks, and investor reporting and relations

  • Finance: forecasting, budgeting, tax strategy, accounting, A/P, payroll, insurance, regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, cash and credit management, internal controls

  • Analytics: recommending and implementing data-driven business intelligence tools, platforms, and processes to maintain a competitive edge

  • Legal: working with outside legal and financial advisors regarding contracts, employment, permitting and licensing, investor and lender documents, regulatory compliance, tax law, etc.



Requirements

Our ideal CFO possesses the following characteristics & skills:

  • 5-10 years of operational oversight for a private equity fund, REIT, or other fund-driven platform as a Controller, CFO or equivalent with full P&L responsibility

  • 5 years of experience scaling, leading and managing a rapidly growing organization

  • Proficiency in using Excel and CRE-specific platforms, accounting, and reporting software

  • Bachelor's degree, and preferably a master's degree in real estate development, engineering, economics, accounting, finance, business or a related field


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