VP of Finance / Controller
VP of Finance / Controller
Location: Nashville, TN metro (on-site)
Reports To: President
Compensation: $150,000–$200,000 base, depending on experience, plus bonus, equity and benefits
Search: Confidential, client name disclosed upon mutual interest
About the Client
The company is a specialty distribution business in the Nashville metro. It buys excess, returned, and obsolete power tools and accessories and resells them to cost-conscious buyers, operating out of a single large warehouse.
Inventory is sourced through OEM, distributor, and retailer relationships, along with opportunistic truckload buys and auctions, and moves back out through wholesale and e-commerce channels. The plan is to broaden the sourcing base and shift the sales mix from wholesale truckloads toward selling individual units directly to DIY customers and contractors through the company's website.
The business is backed by a private equity firm running a playbook it has already executed successfully in industrial surplus, and is held as a long-term investment rather than a quick flip. The management team is being built from scratch: a President joined
