Chief Financial Officer

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Role Overview

The Chief Financial Officer will serve as a strategic and operational finance leader responsible for building a scalable, high-performance finance organization and establishing best-in-class financial infrastructure to support growth, margin expansion, cash generation, and exit readiness.

This role is both transformational and hands-on, with clear expectations to upgrade talent, implement rigorous financial and operational controls, improve working capital visibility, and position the company for a future liquidity event. The CFO will act as a proactive business partner to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, providing disciplined financial leadership, decision support, and value-creation insight across the organization.

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the Finance and Accounting organization, identifying top performers and capability gaps.
• Recruit, develop, and install high-caliber leadership across Controllership and FP&A, ensuring a scalable and effective organization.
• Establish Finance as a trusted, proactive business partner to Operations and Sales, delivering insights that directly impact margin, growth, and execution excellence.

• Establish a repeatable, GAAP-compliant monthly close process delivering final financial statements within 10 calendar days.
• Implement and own a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast with weekly variance reviews and accountability.
• Define and institutionalize a standardized EBITDA definition and adjustment framework.
• Lead structured monthly business reviews with executive leaders, clearly tying financial results to operational drivers.
• Deploy automated KPIs, dashboards, and business intelligence tools across Finance and Operations.
• Deliver clean annual audits with no material weaknesses or recurring deficiencies.

• Implement a quarterly rolling forecast cadence to support dynamic decision-making.
• Lead a bottoms-up, zero-based Annual Operating Plan aligned to capacity, margin, and growth drivers.
• Build and maintain a multi-year long-range plan aligned with the company’s strategic priorities and value-creation initiatives.
• Partner closely with the CEO and Operations leadership to quarterback all operating reviews, budgets, and forecast updates.

• Establish and monitor core working capital metrics including DSO, DPO, DIO, and cash conversion cycle with clear ownership and accountability.
• Improve accounts receivable through disciplined billing, milestone invoicing, and collections rigor.
• Optimize accounts payable through vendor rationalization, payment cadence optimization, and automation.
• Reduce WIP and unbilled balances, translating cash improvements into measurable debt reduction and liquidity enhancement.

• Define and implement a standardized job-costing framework covering labor, materials, subcontractors, freight, and overhead.
• Rebuild WIP and unbilled revenue processes to deliver accurate, timely margin visibility.
• Launch multi-dimensional profitability analytics across customers, projects, services, and geographies.
• Partner with Sales and Operations to drive margin expansion through pricing discipline, portfolio optimization, and exit of unprofitable work.
• Embed customer- and channel-level P&Ls into bid/no-bid decisions, pricing strategy, and long-term planning.

• Build and maintain a perpetual, diligence-ready data room with financial, operational, and legal materials.
• Ensure Quality of Earnings–ready financials with fully documented adjustments and supporting schedules.
• Enable leadership to clearly articulate the company’s margin story, scalability levers, and cash conversion profile.
• Evaluate strategic and operating decisions through the lens of EBITDA quality, net debt impact, and exit multiple implications.

• Proven CFO in a private equity–backed, growth-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated success building, upgrading, and leading finance organizations.
• Deep expertise in GAAP accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management.
• Strong experience with job costing, project accounting, and customer-level profitability analytics.
• Track record of working capital improvement, debt reduction, and cash generation.
• Prior experience supporting audits, Quality of Earnings, and exit transactions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA and/or MBA preferred.

• Hands-on, execution-oriented leader with a bias toward action and accountability.
• Strategic thinker who translates data into clear, actionable business insights.
• Trusted partner to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team with strong communication and influence skills.
• High integrity, disciplined,…