Head of Finance - FOCUS Learning - Brydon Portfolio Company

Vice President Of Finance

FOCUS Learning is a highly respected technology provider in mission-critical training and compliance solutions for highly regulated industries. This is an incredibly exciting time for the company - growing rapidly and building the leading energy training platform. Backed by The Brydon Group, FOCUS is looking for an exceptional finance leader to take the business to the next level. In particular, this is a great fit for a finance leader in a private equity portfolio company environment who is excited by a high growth company and an accelerated path to CFO.

The Vice President of Finance will serve as a key member of the executive leadership team, reporting directly to the CEO and lead the company's Finance function. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role responsible for building financial and operational infrastructure to support aggressive revenue growth and long-term sustainability.

Near term - VP of Finance :

• Move Focus Learning to best practice on controllership and financial management
• Improve and streamline the monthly close process
• Implement rigorous cash flow forecasting
• Implement improvements to internal spend and cash controls
• Include a monitoring mechanism for covenant compliance
• Develop a repeatable, effective financial reporting process
• Develop weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting mechanisms and provide an operating pack each month
• Work with other functions to quantify and track KPIs that drive value creation
• Design & implement a standardized process to be followed when updating the package
• Codify and drive the annual budgeting process
• Take the organization through an efficient, rigorous budgeting process
• Partner with the CEO, CoS, ELT to size and refine the 2026 value creation plan
• Build a tracking mechanism to capture synergies realized for M&A integrations
• Review billing and revenue recognition processes, and partner with the technology team to implement improved e-commerce systems / transaction processes
• Evaluate migrating existing finance systems to upgraded platforms to improve financial reporting, analysis quality, and scalability

Long term - Chief Financial Officer :