VP of Finance

Location: Onsite in Santa Ana, CA

Salary: $195,000 – $235,000 annually

Type: Full-Time

About Us

eJam is a bootstrapped consumer products company that has built, scaled, and exited multiple brands — all without ever taking a dollar of outside capital. Our portfolio includes category leaders ranked at the top of Amazon, carried in major retailers nationwide, and sold across DTC, marketplaces, and every channel in between.

We’re not a startup hoping something works. We’re a team that has done it repeatedly — taken products from zero to eight figures, landed them on retail shelves nationwide, and built real brands that consumers love. We operate like a holding company with the speed of a startup: small team, no bureaucracy, massive ownership.

This is the place where you’ll see the entire machine — sourcing, product development, packaging, manufacturing, compliance, marketing, marketplace strategy, retail — all under one roof. If you want to learn how consumer products actually get built and shipped at scale, there is no faster education than this.

The Role

We are hiring a Vice President of Finance to lead eJam’s finance and accounting function across the enterprise. You will own the books, the operating budget, the forecast, the investor reporting package, and the asset-based lending relationship. You will serve as the financial backbone of our monthly Sales & Operations Planning process in partnership with Supply Chain, Sales, and brand leadership, and you will produce the brand-level financial reporting and analytics that our General Managers rely on to run their businesses. You will lead an Accounting Manager, three AP/AR processors, and a dedicated Treasury-focused Accountant, and you will partner closely with our external accounting, tax, and audit advisors. You will play a central role in transaction support — Quality of Earnings engagements, diligence, and external financial reviews — and in the selection or optimization of our ERP platform.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will work alongside the CEO, the President of eJam, the COO, and the brand General Managers to deliver finance outputs that make the business stronger — numbers the executive team, the board, the lender, and our investors can act on with confidence.

What You Will Own

• Ownership of financial statements at both the brand entity level (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow for each subsidiary) and the parent level (eJam Inc. consolidated) — including monthly close, brand-level P&L production, and financial reporting to the executive team, investors, the lender, and external reviewers
• Budgeting and forecasting at both the brand and parent levels — annual operating budgets built with each brand’s General Manager to support the commercial outcomes they are chartered to deliver, rolled into the eJam consolidated budget; quarterly reforecasts at brand and parent levels; monthly variance analysis and brand/channel scenario modeling
• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) — serve as the financial partner in the monthly S&OP process owned by the COO; produce the integrated financial forecast, translate demand and supply assumptions into margin and cash implications, and own the variance analysis that closes each cycle
• ABL management — borrowing base certificates, covenant compliance, and direct lender communication
• Investor reporting — monthly and quarterly packages for institutional investors and the board
• Transaction support — QoE engagements, data room management, diligence Q&A, and integration planning
• Tax and external review — own the annual external CPA firm engagement, manage external tax advisors, and ensure federal, multi-state, California, and applicable international tax compliance across the organization
• ERP — participate in the selection, implementation, or optimization of the ERP platform alongside internal stakeholders and external consultants
• Team leadership — coach the Accounting Manager, three AP/AR processors, and a dedicated Treasury-focused Accountant (concurrent hire), manage external accounting partners, and build the bench

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience at consumer product companies, through Director of Finance or Controller-level roles
• Hands‑on experience managing an asset‑based line of credit — borrowing base, eligibility, covenants, and lender relationship (required)
• Experience supporting M&A transactions — Quality of Earnings engagements, due diligence processes, and external financial reviews
• Experience serving as the finance lead inside a Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) or Integrated Business Planning process, and building operating budgets in partnership with commercial and operations leaders
• Experience supporting businesses sold through national retail partners (Walmart, Target, and similar) — deduction and chargeback context strongly valued
• Experience with ERP selection, implementation, or major optimization projects
• Subscription DTC exposure (Shopify, recurring revenue, cohort analysis) — strongly preferred
• CPA preferred; ERP fluency preferred (NetSuite ideal)
• Team leadership experience — you have built, coached, and retained accounting and FP&A talent
• Direct, humble, and responsive. You work at the pace of a growing CPG operating team and you partner across functions without territory

Benefits

• Health, Dental & Vision
• Target annual bonus: 20–25% of base
• 401k with match
• Generous paid time off
• Amazing, pet‑friendly office environment
• Quarterly Outings & Events