Chief Financial Officer - Ignite Venture Partners, TBD, West Coast

website: www.ignite-vp.com

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:
Innovate. Incubate. Launch. Simply put, that's what we do at Ignite
Venture Partners. Ignite's mission is to turn innovative ideas in
growth markets into sustainable, profitable businesses. Ignite has
developed an effective process for choosing and launching ventures
that maximize the potential for success. Once we vet an idea against
our venture criteria, we initiate our process for business planning,
funding and commercialization.

We develop all of our ventures internally, which sets us apart from
most other early-stage capital and service providers. Our strong
network of relationships allows us to nurture our ventures by engaging
the best and brightest management talent, domain experts and leading
academicians. This ensures the highest quality business plan
development process.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:
In addition to traditional CFO responsibilities, responsible for all
aspects of business plan development (from financial perspective)
including financial modeling, investor relations, business plan
creation, road show creation and execution.

REQUIREMENTS:
General Requirements:
• Driven and passionate, experience in early stage development
and ambiguous environments
• Superior organization, coordination, writing and time management skills
• Effective, confident, articulate and dynamic communicator,
both written and oral for multiple audiences.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills
• Not afraid of making critical decisions with good judgment in
knowing when to move decisions upward
• Self starter who, with little direction, need not be micromanaged
• Experience or ability to manage multiple distributed (virtual)
resources, all of which may be operating under part time commitments
• Experience creating or critiquing robust, private equity
investment quality business plans and offering memorandums
• The presence, visibility and record of accomplishment which
will enable him/her to immediately establish credibility both within
the organization and with individuals external to it.
• Seasoning and maturity that often come with experience,
combined with a high energy level and enthusiasm.
• An intelligent, quick and forward thinking executive who is
team-oriented, proactive and predisposed to act as a "partner" and a
member of the senior management team.
• A "roll up the sleeves" attitude and a "hands-on" style.
• A team player who facilitates the sharing of knowledge and the
building of teams.
• The flexibility and adaptability to be able to change
direction instantly to meet the dynamic needs of an early-stage
company.
• Constant formal and informal communication with lenders and
financial sponsors.
• Attracting, recruiting and retaining a 'best of class' finance
team to create a tightly controlled, cohesive, decentralized financial
management organization.
• Demonstrated ability to gain and enhance the respect and trust
of superiors, peers, subordinates, customers and the investment
community.
• An ethical person with an unquestioned level of personal and
professional integrity.
• Ability and desire to work in a virtual, "bootstrap" environment

Specific Qualifications:
• Minimum 10 years senior financial leadership experience in
some combination of corporate finance and early-stage venture
development. Minimum 5 years as CFO.
• Extensive financial modeling experience, including valuation,
acquisitions, capitalization, forecasting, pro forma financial
statements
• Must have existing relationships into and experience raising
equity capital from angel and venture investors, including
institutions, specific experience with raising and maintaining bank
financing and P&L management in a leveraged environment is a plus.
Demonstrated success in negotiating terms with investor groups.
• Experience operating as CFO in early-stage ventures and
ambiguous environments a must.
• Impeccable personal and professional integrity are absolute
requirements in both principal and practice.
• An appreciation of the high cost of private equity capital and
expectations around efficient deployment and requisite financial
returns are critical.
• MBA / CPA strongly preferred; as long as above criteria are
met completely, will consider 10 years experience as CFO in lieu of
advanced education.

Other Ideal, But Not Required, Qualifications:
• Background in business to consumer (B to C) based businesses a plus.

APPLY TO:
Email resume and cover letter to recruit@ignite-vp.com