Good Roots is a consulting firm serving farmers and food entrepreneurs with accounting, marketing, and business support. Its work includes 180-day business transformations, fractional accounting, and marketing foundations, helping clients improve profitability, organize operations, address labor and hiring challenges, and move toward organic practices. The company also creates industry resources and reports, hosts conferences, and runs partnership programs for farm and food businesses across the United States.
Farm and Food Business Consultant II
Support farmers and food entrepreneurs with financial reporting, business plans, feasibility studies, and market research. This fully remote position is with Good Roots, a food and agriculture consulting firm.
Aprašymas
- Deliver client projects in business planning, feasibility studies, bookkeeping, and related consulting work
- Enter data to help reorganize clients’ financial reporting systems
- Prepare financial statements
- Support budget and cash flow development
- Write business plan narratives
- Research markets and use external data to validate business plans, forecasts, and market assessments
- Lead financial review meetings with clients
- Learn Good Roots’ consulting and bookkeeping processes through training and project shadowing
- Support budgeting, basic bookkeeping, feasibility studies, business plans, and scenario-based financial models
- Manage assigned client work and take on tasks independently
- Prepare financial report packages with basic analysis
- Manage time, project tasks, priorities, and deadlines
- Work with managers, mentors, and distributed teams across practice areas
- Build professional skills and identify a career direction
Reikalavimai
- Bring 2–3 years of experience in business consulting
- Hold a bachelor’s degree or have equivalent experience
- Have experience working remotely
- Have experience or knowledge in farming and/or agriculture
- Understand basic business management principles, including the components of financial statements
- Be highly proficient with Google Suite, Zoom, Slack, and project management software
- Be able to learn from, follow, and develop written procedures
- Have experience with QuickBooks and understand basic bookkeeping principles
- Have advanced Excel and/or Google Sheets skills, including formulas, pivot tables, and logic tools
- Be able to manage multiple client projects, team needs, and competing priorities
- Be able to research reliable data sources, including the USDA Ag Census and other databases
- Have strong writing skills for technical documents, persuasive narratives, and internal communication
- Be able to work independently and collaboratively
- Have a dedicated workspace suited to productive, focused work
Privalumai
- Work fully remotely
- Enjoy a flexible work environment
- Receive an assigned official mentor during the first six months
- Access professional development opportunities
- Be eligible for merit-based and/or promotion-based pay increases
- Build skills and confidence through challenging work
- Use dedicated training and self-guided training modules
- Learn through project shadowing and hands-on experience
- Receive one-to-one manager support
- Collaborate flexibly within a fully distributed company