Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Southwest Adventure Tours

$120K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field
  • 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience
  • Experience leading accounting and finance teams
  • Advanced financial modeling skills
  • Strong forecasting and budgeting experience
  • Executive-level communication skills
  • Experience partnering with CEOs, owners, or boards
  • A sparkling personality

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic financial leadership to guide growth initiatives
  • Oversee financial operations to ensure efficiency and accuracy
  • Leverage business intelligence and analytics for informed decision-making
  • Implement accounting technology and automation processes
  • Lead mergers and acquisitions activities to support expansion
  • Collaborate closely with executive leadership to inform company strategy

Benefits

  • Directly influence the future of a growing company
  • Participate in significant growth opportunities through acquisitions and strategic initiatives
  • Be a core member of the Executive Leadership Team
  • Create unforgettable experiences for travelers worldwide
  • Engage in technology and innovation pursuits to drive operational excellence
  • Be part of a culture that values accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement
Full Job Description
Job Description
Not Your Typical CFO Job.

If you're looking for a Fortune 500 bureaucracy where your biggest challenge is debating depreciation schedules in endless meetings, this isn't it.

We're not looking for a CFO who simply closes books.

We're looking for a CFO who builds empires while capturing hearts.

This is a rare opportunity to join an executive leadership team that is actively scaling through:

  • Organic growth
  • Acquisitions
  • Technology transformation
  • Operational efficiency initiatives
  • New tourism products
  • Geographic expansion

You'll sit at the table where decisions are made.

You'll help determine where we invest, what we acquire, how we grow, and how we maximize profitability while maintaining an exceptional customer experience.

If words like acquisition modeling, cash flow optimization, KPI development, automation, business intelligence, and strategic growth get your heart rate up, keep reading.

The Opportunity

The CFO will be a key member of the Executive Leadership Team and serve as the financial architect of Southwest Adventure Tours' next decade of growth (including several additional entities, as mentioned before).

This role goes far beyond accounting.

You will be responsible for:

  • Strategic Financial Leadership
  • Financial Operations
  • Business Intelligence & Analytics
  • Accounting Technology & Automation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Leadership


What Success Looks Like

Within your first 12 months, you will:

  • Create executive dashboards that provide real-time visibility into company performance
  • Improve forecasting accuracy across all departments
  • Increase profitability through operational and financial improvements
  • Streamline reporting and reduce manual processes
  • Develop acquisition evaluation frameworks
  • Improve cash management and capital planning
  • Build stronger financial visibility across the organization
  • Help position SWAT for significant long-term growth


Requirements

We're looking for a high-impact financial architect, not a traditional bean counter, to lead our next decade of explosive growth. If you're a seasoned strategist with 10+ years of experience who thrives on building systems, mastering automation, and translating complex data into operational wins, this is your arena. We need a business builder who craves influence, communicates effortlessly, and rejects the slow pace of corporate bureaucracy. Bring your expertise in M&A, your passion for scaling, and your "sparkling personality" to help us define the future of adventure travel.

You are not simply a finance professional. You are a business builder.

You have:

Required
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field
  • 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience
  • Experience leading accounting and finance teams
  • Advanced financial modeling skills
  • Strong forecasting and budgeting experience
  • Executive-level communication skills
  • Experience partnering with CEOs, owners, or boards
  • A sparkling personality
Strongly Preferred
  • CPA
  • MBA
  • Experience in tourism, hospitality, transportation, logistics, travel, or service industries
  • Multi-entity financial management experience
  • Acquisition and integration experience
  • Business intelligence/dashboard expertise
  • AI and automation exposure
  • Experience scaling growth companies


Benefits
Why Join SWAT?
Impact

You'll directly influence the future of a growing company.

Growth

Acquisitions, expansion, and strategic initiatives create enormous opportunities.

Leadership

You'll be a core member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Adventure

Your work helps create unforgettable experiences for travelers from around the world.

Innovation

We're very interested in technology, automation, AI, and operational excellence not for the sake of it, but because we truly believe it will help us achieve all that we're working to achieve.

Culture

We value:

  • Accountability
  • Ownership
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Servant Leadership
  • Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • Results
Compensation & Benefits
  • Competitive Executive Salary
  • Performance-Based Bonus Program
  • Health Benefits
  • Paid Time Off
  • Travel Opportunities
  • Professional Development
  • Long-Term Incentive Opportunities
  • Executive Leadership Participation
  • Great people to work with
Ready to Build Something Extraordinary?

At Southwest Adventure Tours, we aren't just looking for someone to occupy a seat at the executive level; we are looking for a financial architect to help us build the table itself.

If you are a visionary leader driven by strategic growth, technological innovation, and the challenge of complex acquisitions, your expertise can create a lasting legacy with us.

Join Southwest Adventure Tours today and become a primary author of our future success.

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