Executive Vice President & CFO

Catalight is the parent organization leading a family of companies (FoC) that includes Easterseals Northern California, Easterseals Hawaii, and Catalight Care Services (CCS). Across the four non-profit companies, nearly 900 employees work together to responsibly disrupt and transform home and community-based care, aiming to become a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization that proactively addresses complex societal problems, such as healthcare access and improved well-being for underrepresented communities.​ 

Job Summary

Are you a progressive leader, a big-picture thinker, and perpetually curious?

Interested in partnering with our executive team and board of directors to help build the company’s future?

Join us in driving change, shaping strategy, and developing talent. We are seeking a dynamic and modern Chief Financial Officer to advance our mission of disrupting healthcare systems and ensuring that individuals with developmental disabilities have equitable access to the services they need, when they need them, regardless of geography, race, gender, or sexual orientation. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of healthcare and drive initiatives that dismantle barriers and biases contributing to these inequities by balancing short-term results with long-term sustainability.

The ideal candidate is someone who understands the art of the impossible—the concept that, with the right mindset, skills, and strategies, individuals can achieve goals that initially seem unattainable. Key qualities include strategic thinking, analytical skills, integrity, adaptability, emotional intelligence, and a future-focused perspective, while acting as the headlights on the bus—spotting potholes and potential problems ahead.

We are looking for a leader who will ensure every decision strengthens the financial engine of the business, creating lasting value rather than just managing numbers. Someone who:

• Able to utilize big data, predictive analytics, and real-time reporting to enhance strategic planning and boost business performance.

• Recognizes that stakeholders increasingly expect CFOs to manage complex strategic and operational challenges beyond traditional finance responsibilities.

• Works with the business to create impact and maximize profitable growth.

• Demonstrates strong board communication skills by effectively informing the board about big-picture issues and presenting new or complex topics.

You will work directly with our CEO and collaborate with the executive team, leading finance, business intelligence, risk management, and technology.

Core Responsibilities & Essential Job Functions

The role of the CFO is evolving, and the success profile Catalight seeks includes the following key responsibilities:

• Inspire Trust: By spreading risk competencies from specialized back-office functions to awareness and practices throughout the enterprise, mastering accounting principles and finance frameworks that measure and monitor the tangible value of environmental, social, and corporate governance assets, and transforming risk from a passive compliance role to a strategic lever for growth, innovation, and resilience.

• Build Healthy Teams: Cultivate, develop, and motivate a healthy, high-performing team committed to growth, development, and innovation. Actively facilitate employee spaces with charisma, vision, and clarity. Foster creative problem-solving and a growth mindset throughout your organization.

• Drive Value: Reshape multi-business portfolios by assessing the maximum value each business can create. You optimize the allocation of scarce resources to decide which companies can run better, and where to buy to scale.

• Activate the Digital Agenda: Champion a finance-led data governance framework as the baseline from which to drive quality and data standardization. Utilize dynamic investment approaches, design thinking, and market speed operating model concepts to drive innovation within the business.

• Modernize Skills: Foster customer-oriented finance cultures that prioritize partnership and value creation by investing in continuous workforce retraining and upskilling. This involves bringing together disparate cultures of data science and traditional finance acumen, as well as advocating for the integration of emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and AI.

• Anticipate Market Change: Future-proof the business against disruption by combining internal and external data to fuel forecasting models augmented by human insight.

• Accelerate Growth: Effectively partner with the board and C-Suite in the pursuit of new capabilities, products, and services through discretionary investments.

• Rethink Service Delivery Models: To evolve delivery models, you will need to be well-versed in global business services partnerships as talent resource alternatives, managed services structures for mission-critical activities, and offshore, nearshore, and onshore arrangements focused on delivering value, rather than solely reducing costs.

Qualifications

Minimum Education, Experience & Training Equivalent to:

We believe humans with diverse experiences may be suited for the work at hand. We are avoiding education and experience minimums for this role with an acknowledgment that these can be barriers for historically excluded groups. This role will be best suited for a strong people leader with a history of building scalable growth ecosystems from the ground up within quickly moving and creative industries or roles.

HELPFUL SKILLS + KNOWLEDGE (aligned to our core values):

Bold:

• Challenges the status quo and embraces disruptive innovation.

• Leads transformative initiatives and drives systemic change.

• Navigates ambiguity and uncertainty with a growth mindset.

Community-Oriented:

• Strong connector with the ability to build relationships with diverse groups.

• Passion for creating inclusive and equitable environments.

• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals.

• Strong user advocate, elevating the needs of any audience in the growth design process.

Equity-Informed:

• Effectively advocates for historically excluded or forgotten groups.

• Approaches work with empathy, engages in continuous feedback.

• Understands that humans have biases and are imperfect as a baseline.

• Effectively working with an ethnically, socioeconomically, linguistically, and culturally diverse population.

• Understanding of the social determinants of health and healthcare disparities.

• Experience in working with people with disabilities and underserved populations and addressing health inequities.

Wellbeing-Driven:

• Advocate for the wellbeing and needs of your team to be effective contributors in our ecosystem

• Committed to employee + community well-being and work-life harmony in your leadership

• Ability to foster a safe and supportive work culture in all rooms.

• Willingness and commitment to personal self-reflection and systems re-thinking

• Ability to understand your physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing needs with a willingness to co-create boundaries that allow you to sustainably show up and honor your humanity.

REQUESTS:

• Technical Innovator: Familiarity with the latest tech and competitive generative ecosystems.

• Excellent Storyteller: Highly effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills are a part of your being.

• Flexible + Firm Mindset: Flexibility and willingness to change approach and work tasks based on your evolved strategy grounded in insights, with concurrent ability to stand with conviction for areas that require us to challenge the status quo.

• Strong Discretion: Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality.

• Baselines Technical Operations: You can operate with Microsoft tools, including (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, etc.), and a variety of AI-based tools, and can use phones and computers to stay connected.

• Communication: Frequent visual or auditory communication and listening (40-80%).

• Availability: 8 hours each day from 9-5 PM PT, unless otherwise discussed.

In addition to the core values, the ideal candidate should possess:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute long-term growth strategies.

• Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of financial metrics and the ability to drive revenue growth.

• AI + Digital Expertise: Experience in leveraging digital technologies to improve efficiency and patient outcomes.

• Global Perspective: Understanding of international healthcare markets and the ability to adapt to different cultural contexts.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to communicate effectively within the work environment, read and write using the primary language within the workplace.

• Visual and auditory ability to work with clients, staff and others in the workplace continuously.

• Frequent speaking and listening (25-75%) to clients, staff, and others in the workplace.

• Utilize computer and cell phone for effective communication.

Conditions of Employment

• Ability to obtain and maintain criminal record clearance through the Department of Justice (DOJ). The People & Performance Department must analyze DOJ/FBI live scan reports in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, as well as fitness for the position.

• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance through the Office of Inspector General.

• Must attend any required training, e.g., HIPAA compliance, workplace safety, cyber security, and inclusive leadership for managers

Time Type:

Compensation:

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas as deemed fit for the organization.