Regional Finance Leader

Regional Finance Leader

Job Location: St Louis, MO

FLSA Status: Exempt – Full‑time

Air Control Concepts is more than just a collection of firms, we are a community of forward‑thinking experts committed to excellence, innovation, and collaboration. With a focus on commercial HVAC representation, we bring together esteemed entities from diverse regions, each boasting decades of invaluable experience. We understand that success in the HVAC industry goes beyond individual accomplishments. That’s why we believe in the power of unity and collaboration.

By leveraging our collective assets, knowledge, and resources, we empower our member firms to deliver unparalleled service, safety, and efficiency to clients across healthcare, commercial, and residential sectors.

The Regional Finance Leader (RFL) serves as the senior financial and operational leader for the region, overseeing all aspects of financial performance, reporting, forecasting, and transformation across the region’s portfolio of operating companies. Acting as a strategic partner to both regional and corporate leadership, the RFL ensures financial accuracy and transparency while driving operational excellence, scalability, and growth. The RFL plays a pivotal role in shaping how the region operates—creating synergies across entities, professionalizing financial operations, and supporting business leaders in making data‑driven, profitable decisions.

• Serve as the primary finance leader and advisor for the region’s operations, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to Regional Leadership and Corporate Finance
• Translate financial results into business insights to drive decisions on pricing, resource allocation, and performance improvement
• Partner with Corporate FP&A on budgets, forecasts, and scenario analysis
• Act as the link between OpCos and corporate leadership, ensuring alignment between strategy, performance, and execution
• Partner with regional operations and business leaders to identify growth opportunities, efficiency improvements, and synergies across entities
• Oversee the month‑end close process across all regional OpCos; ensure close timeliness, completeness, and accuracy
• Review and approve all monthly financial statements and reporting packages, prepared by the regional finance team
• Drive standardization of close processes and reporting formats across entities within the region
• Identify and address financial risks, gaps, or inefficiencies impacting results
• Ensure financial accuracy and alignment with corporate standards and policies

• Ensure implementation of corporate accounting policies, procedures, and controls across all entities in the region
• Monitor and enforce segregation of duties, documentation standards, and control testing
• Coordinate cash management activities with Corporate Treasury, including cash forecasting and working capital management
• Maintain proper entity‑level audit trails and reconciliations to support audit readiness

• Lead the annual budgeting process for the region, partnering with OpCo Principals to develop realistic yet ambitious financial plans
• Prepare and update rolling forecasts (P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet) and explain variances to budget and prior periods
• Monitor and report KPIs and financial metrics (margin, DSO, AR aging, utilization, revenue per FTE, etc.) to track performance and identify trends
• Collaborate with Corporate FP&A to ensure consistency in forecasting methodology and data integrity

• Evaluate financial impacts of operational initiatives, pricing decisions, and growth opportunities
• Develop business cases and ROI analyses for capital expenditures, new product/service lines, or new line card representation
• Participate in post‑acquisition integration efforts, ensuring newly acquired entities are financially aligned with regional standards
• Provide scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to support decision‑making

• Ensure regional adherence to internal control standards and corporate audit requirements
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