Divisional VP of Finance

Overview

The organization is seeking a Divisional Vice President of Finance for the Gulf and South Divisions. This role serves as the senior finance leader, responsible for financial strategy, governance, and performance to grow value for investors and stakeholders.

This leader owns divisional FP&A, accounting, cash management, and construction WIP reporting. Collaboration with Divisional VPs of Operations, operations leaders, and Project Managers is central to the role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Division VPs of Operations and operation company leaders to achieve growth objectives; translate growth strategies into actionable targets.
• Lead divisional FP&A and strategic initiatives while running the division’s accounting and finance function; train local finance teams in best practices.
• Serve as the point of contact for systems integrations.
• Deliver budgets, reports, and trend analysis; improve budgeting and forecasting; coach other departments on sound financial practices.
• Advise on the financial aspects of long-term strategy, new initiatives, regulatory actions, contracts, and M&A or alliances.
• Build a reliable cash-flow projection process and establish minimum cash levels.
• Improve finance policies, systems, and procedures; strengthen the finance team’s structure.
• Own the monthly WIP schedule for the division, ensuring revenue recognition is correct under ASC 606 using cost-to-cost percent-of-completion; ensure over- and under-billings are accurately captured and reconciled to the general ledger.
• Track backlog, project margins, and labor productivity; provide Operations with clear project-level dashboards and early warnings on at-risk jobs.
• Prepare WIP and financial reporting for sureties, lenders, and auditors; support bonding capacity.

Requirements

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
• 10–15 years in finance, including 5–7 in financial planning and management and at least 5 leading finance teams.
• Background in construction, multi-site service businesses, or PE-backed companies.
• Deep experience with construction WIP accounting, percent-of-completion revenue recognition, and project-level financial controls.
• Working knowledge of procurement, project, contract, and vendor management, and construction best practices.
• Experience with systems integration and data migration projects is a huge plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication and leadership skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office or similar software.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred

• CPA.
• Master’s degree.
• Experience with ERP systems, including NetSuite, Workday, and Salesforce.

Location

Gulf and South Divisions.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits are provided (details not specified).

Equal Employment Opportunity

The organization is committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate in employment on any basis protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where it does business.