Candyce Thieken is a CFO and finance operator — Co-Founder and CFO behind a 10× private-equity exit, finance leader from a $30M farmer-owned cooperative to a $26B global enterprise, and author of The Executive's Complete M&A Integration Playbook. Today she consults for agricultural retailers and cooperatives on costing, margin integrity, and the reporting that boards, lenders, and member-owners rely on.
Work with Candyce Connect on LinkedInIndependent finance consulting for agricultural retail. Current engagement: a $3B farmer-owned agricultural cooperative — tracing inventory costing from purchase order through grower invoice, auditing the P&L for mis-classified costs, and delivering a reconciled costing model ahead of fiscal year-end close.
Global leader of finance reporting, BI, automation, and governance (GAAP, IFRS, SOX) at the $26B world leader in crop inputs, managing 70 professionals across a matrixed environment. Promoted from Senior Manager to Director within 12 months. Automated the 1099 statutory filing process, eliminating 98% of manual effort.
Led valuation, governance, and performance reporting for a $9B technology investment portfolio. Built the KPI frameworks and dashboards that informed executive decisions and Investor Day communications. Received the Chief Data Officer award for excellence in executive communication.
Scaled a greenfield agricultural retailer to $150M revenue, 50 locations, and 30 SKUs of in-house manufactured product — a top-50 U.S. ag retailer — and delivered a 10× return to private equity investors at exit. Owned Finance, Tax, Treasury, HR, and Systems end-to-end on AgVance ERP; executed three acquisitions from due diligence through ERP integration and synergy capture; managed the revolver and term debt across 7 refinancing cycles.
President-equivalent role over a $30M farmer-owned cooperative, reporting directly to a farmer Board of Directors: six business lines, 75 employees, full P&L. Doubled seed revenue in a drought year through an early-order marketing program.
Led finance across 140 locations and $1.6B in revenue for one of the largest U.S. ag-retail platforms (now Nutrien Ag Solutions). Grew net income before tax from $3M to $11M in a single year through margin discipline and working-capital tightening. Delivered the company's most profitable region three years running.
Founder of a patent-pending perpetual-memory AI system for operators — it holds an operator's context, decisions, and patterns and surfaces them when needed. Structured to transition to operating partners when Candyce accepts a full-time executive seat.
A 100-day, ten-workstream integration system built across three real acquisitions — used by operators on PE-backed platforms, and the source of the frameworks in the shop.
Every framework in the shop was built from real capital approvals, board meetings, and integrations — and the consulting practice works the same way.
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