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Help me build the future of the CFO Role

2026-02-12 · 18:38 UTC ·Secret CFO ·3 min read

Brief

Secret CFO is recruiting a Head of the CFO Innovation Lab to formalize and productize best practices for the modern finance function. The brief is unusually operator-focused: the hire would synthesize lessons from CFO advisory work and real in-seat finance execution into a reusable operating system spanning multiple company states, from growth to distress and from founder-led firms to public companies. A notable angle is explicit AI evaluation: the lab is expected to test emerging AI tools and software, filter signal from hype, and incorporate useful tools into a library of validated frameworks, models, and templates. The role appears to blend research, product development, and practitioner community feedback, with Secret CFO emphasizing a high-intensity working style, frequent in-person collaboration despite remote setup, and a narrow candidate profile with deep finance-function fluency and systems-level thinking.

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title: Help me build the future of the CFO Role

author: Secret CFO

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published: 2026-02-12T18:38:09+00:00

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February 12, 2026

I’m hiring a one-of-its-kind role… this is a last call for new applicants before we close the shortlist.

As a reminder, I am setting up a CFO Innovation Lab, and I’m looking for someone special to run it for me.

What’s the role? Head of the CFO Innovation Lab.

Your job:

Research real-world CFO best practices to support Secret CFO content and build new tools for the audience

Build and maintain the definitive operating system for how great CFOs operate across every context; growth, distress, PE-backed, founder-led, public, etc

Test the latest AI tools and software, to separate the wheat from the chaff

Create the battle-tested library of frameworks, models, and templates that define best practice for modern CFOs

Work with my community of CFOs to validate what you’ve found is _truly_ best practice

I need someone very specific:

You've had significant tenure in Office of the CFO consulting or a CFO advisory practice

But you’ve also worked the other side of the desk implementing; either in a finance team or on long secondments - you know how the finance function actually works

You can read financial statements faster than most people read their email

You are opinionated, and smarter than me

You are a systems / frameworks thinker

You are a relentless AI and tech tinkerer

You read a lot, but have consistently put what you’ve read into practice throughout your career

You can hold a big vision in your head, and execute frantically every day at the same time

You are US or UK-based or prepared to relocate

This is a remote role, but we will work directly together and need to meet in person frequently. This is not for the faint of heart, I can be annoying and intense.

And if you're happy to wait and see what the future of the finance function looks like, this won’t be for you.

But if you want to be central to design the finance function of the future, and then work with me to help CFOs all over the world deliver it. This could be the start of something incredible.

And while I’m not publishing details of the pay, benefits and bonus here, you won’t be disappointed.

If you are interested drop your details in this short form, and I’ll reach out with next steps:

APPLY NOW

Deadline for applications is COB tomorrow.

Stay crispy,

Secret CFO

Dover, Delaware 19901, United States

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