Fractional CFO (Logistics) at AdaptCFO

AdaptCFO partners with ambitious businesses across the United States, delivering outsourced CFO and accounting services that combine financial expertise with technology-driven insights. This fractional CFO role focuses on logistics and transportation clients, with engagements typically running 10 to 30 hours per month, allowing you to work across multiple businesses simultaneously.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to business owners and executive teams, leading financial strategy, improving profitability and cash flow, and building scalable financial systems. The role covers the full scope of senior finance leadership, from budgeting and forecasting through to M&A support and KPI reporting, with a specific lens on the operational and cost drivers unique to logistics businesses such as fuel, labour, fleet, and customer profitability.

• Lead financial strategy and planning for multiple logistics and transportation clients
• Build budgets, forecasts, cash flow projections, and financial models tailored to logistics operations
• Analyse route, customer, service-line, and operational profitability to surface margin improvement opportunities
• Develop KPI dashboards and executive reporting to support data-driven decision making
• Manage working capital and evaluate pricing, labour costs, fuel costs, and other key operating expenses
• Support strategic growth initiatives, acquisitions, and financing, and collaborate with the accounting team on accurate financial reporting

• 3 or more years of CFO or senior finance leadership experience within logistics, transportation, freight, warehousing, distribution, or supply chain
• Strong expertise across FP&A, financial modelling, cash flow management, and profitability analysis
• Proven ability to advise business owners and executive teams in a client-facing capacity
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; CPA and/or MBA preferred
• Experience working with US-based companies; consulting or fractional CFO background is an advantage
• Deep understanding of logistics cost drivers including transportation, fleet, fuel, labour, and customer profitability

AdaptCFO is a US-based outsourced CFO and accounting services firm that partners with growth-oriented businesses. The firm combines senior financial expertise with modern technology and data-driven insights, operating on a transparent revenue-sharing model with its network of fractional finance professionals.