About Good Roots

Good Roots is a remote team of accountants, consultants, and marketers working exclusively in food and agriculture. We're people who grew up in agriculture, who have run businesses, who speak the language and understand the stakes. Today, that's 35+ consultants across the country bringing over 300 years of combined experience to more than 700 farmers and food entrepreneurs.

We come from different places, farms and ranches, finance and tech, marketing agencies, university extension offices, farmers' markets — but we operate with a single focus: building a better food system for the people, animals, and the earth it depends on.

The work is practical and hands-on. We sit inside our clients' numbers, their marketing funnels, and their operational decisions. We tell the truth even when it's hard. We roll up our sleeves, and we don't disappear when things get complicated. Our team makes an impact to our clients every day, they live our mission through delivering meaningful work.

Position Summary
Remote Full-Time Farm and Food Business Consultant is focused on billable client projects in all areas of our services from business plan development to feasibility studies and everything in between. Within this role you will be responsible for projects that support client delivery . You will have multiple projects and project types concordantly to work across. Core areas of work responsibilities can include data entry to inform the reorganization of a businesses financial reporting systems, preparing financial statements, assisting with budget and cash flow creation, writing narratives in business plans, conducting market research, holding financial review meetings with clients and more. Good Roots is a fully distributed company which provides much flexibility but also relies on a high level of commitment, accountability and transparency to effectively collaborate on project work with each other and with our clients.

Hiring Timeline & Process (Dates May Be Subject to Fluctuate Slightly)

• Application Screening: Now – November 13th
• First Round Interviews: November 16 – November 20
• Final Interviews: November 23– December 4
• Target Start Date: December 21

What you'll do

• First 30 Days: 
• • Integrate with the team, learn our values
  • Be trained on our processes and software systems
  • Understand Good Roots approach to business consulting and bookkeeping, through project shadowing and completing self guided training modules
  • Meet with your manager 1:1 to reinforce topics covered in self guided training
  • Be assigned an official mentor who will help guide you for your first 6 months
• Days 31 to 60: 
• • Continue to engage in hands-on learning while shadowing on client projects. This may include everything from making budgets and basic bookkeeping to assisting with feasibility studies, business plans and scenario financial modeling
  • Sit in on other practice area team meetings to garner a sense of our firm's other service offerings. 
• Days 61 to 90: 
• • Take on client work, begin to work independently on assigned tasks
  • Continue to do some project shadowing work where necessary
  • Effectively manage your time 
• Post 90 Days
• • Grow your skills and confidence in business and financial consulting through more challenging work and professional development opportunities
  • You become adept at running financial reports packages with very basic analysis 
  • Basic business and financial management skills are established including foundations of bookkeeping
  • Understand core components of business plans and feasibility studies
  • Continue to work with your mentor to develop your professional capacity and identify a trajectory of interest
  • Demonstrate exemplary project management skills by keeping on top of assigned tasks, meeting deadlines efficiently within the allotted time
  • Have fun getting relaxed and realizing it’s not so scary after all, bop around the slack channels and find your people

Who you are

• Organized: You can work by yourself unsupervised, but also enjoy collaboration and having an intense conversation. You understand how to prioritize and feel comfortable reaching out before you get in over your head. You have a dedicated workspace where you feel productive and focused. 
• Basic Business Acumen: You are knowledgeable of the basic principles of business management, including the components of financial statements. 
• Tech Savvy: Highly proficient in Google Suite, Zoom, Slack, and project management software.
• Process Improvement: Strong ability to learn from, follow, and develop written procedures for internal work and as resources for clients.
• Numbers: You are not only good at numbers you downright think of them as a hobby!! This means you have some experience using Quickbooks, and understand basic principles of bookkeeping. You also are extremely adept at using Excel and/or Google Sheets for more than just making your grocery list. You can create formulas, pivot tables, and other logic tools to tell a story.
• Project Management: Capable of efficiently and decisively managing a multitude of client projects, team needs, and competing priorities. 
• Emotionally Intelligent: Exemplary skills related to self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
• Research Skills: You understand the importance of using outside data sources to validate business plans, inform financial forecasting, and develop market assessments. You know where to look for reliable sources of data including the USDA Ag Census and other databases. You think that making data based decisions is a good thing. 
• Writing: You demonstrate a talent and ability for written communication - from technical documents to persuasive narratives and communicating internally with your colleagues.

Required Experience

• 2-3 years working in a business consulting capacity
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience working in a remote enviroment
• Experience or knowledge of the farming and/or agriculture industry. You can meet our clients where they are because you are coming from a place of knowing.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience as a business owner or in a management role. 
• 2+ years remote work

Good Roots has an internal pay structure based on role, skills and experience to provide for equity amongst all employees. We do not negotiate salaries outside what is listed.  There is opportunity for increases to pay based on merit and/or career advancement through promotion.