CFO

An Atlanta based, privately held and PE backed construction equipment and services company with plans to grow and expand into other markets is looking for a talented hands-on CFO with project cost experience to help drive this effort. Compensation package includes base salary, bonus and equity.  

This highly visible position, seated in Atlanta, requires someone with strong interpersonal/relationship and communication skills that will interact and work closely with the Board of Directors, financial institutions, company leadership teams and company employees.  The CFO will direct and oversee the financial activities of the company, the preparation of current financial reports and summaries and creation of forecasts predicting future growth.  

Required Candidate Qualifications:

• Project cost experience.
• Five years of experience in Chief Financial Officer role.
• 15+ years of Finance/Accounting experience.
• Merger and acquisition experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.

Preferred Candidate Qualifications:

• Construction subcontractor or general contractor experience.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.
• Certified Public Accountant designation.
• Private Equity experience.
• Equipment rental experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Executive Leadership: Possess a broad set of management skills including strong business judgment and experience regarding commercial operations, business/corporate development, and infrastructure systems development. Responsible for mentoring and developing direct reports to ensure optimal performance in the finance and accounting function.
• Energetic Leader: Comfortably and successfully operate within a high-energy, high-growth environment. Act as a company culture champion and uphold the company core values. Act ethically, honestly and with integrity.
• Mentor: Have the heart of teacher looking to develop, coach, and grow those around you in terms of their financial acumen and understanding of the financial implications of their decisions.
• Business Planner: Understand and communicate the short- and long-term financial impact of the company’s strategic direction. Layout future financial road maps, including forecasting and economic modeling leading to setting priorities and leading initiatives. Be the resounding voice for the financial health of the company. Develop and communicate original ideas, push back on the ideas of others, challenge our current thinking. Actively engage in discussing and debating the best path forward.
• Implementer: Push the organization forward with urgency in implementing its strategy. Clearly communicate strategy, behavioral changes, and performance expectations required to be successful. Hold individuals and teams accountable to change as our strategy requires. Make the tough call.
• Financial Expert: Financial performance management including corporate-wide financial planning, analysis, budgeting/forecasting, project specific financial analysis and general risk analysis. This includes an ability “to rise above the numbers” with a critical review of key drivers, overages, shortfalls, etc., while instilling best processes that provide financial and operating data that leads to business optimization.
• Reporting and Analysis: Provide clarity by taking the complex and making it simple. Be accountable for timely, accurate financial reporting, both written and oral, and other metrics that assist us in evaluating the effectiveness of past decisions and guiding our future direction. Ability to analyze and synthesize complex operating and financial data while working closely with the private equity firm around trends impacting the business.
• Accounting Technician: Be the expert in applying generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and tax strategies that will impact our business. Provide and report on tax strategies and organizational financial structure to drive value back in the overall business. This includes providing operational direction to those decisions that have tax implications and pushing back on our CPA as appropriate.
• M&A / Growth Strategy: Strategic execution and integration of add-on acquisitions or greenfield locations. Partner closely with Executive Team and Board of Directors in assessing, executing and integrating an M&A strategy that drives growth. Proven track record in M&A and experience with scaling and optimizing growth is essential.
• Operations/Working Capital Management: Oversee all accounts, ledgers and reporting systems, ensuring the conversion to and compliance with appropriate Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and bank requirements. Aggressively monitor working capital levels and cash conversion cycle performance to reduce working capital invested in the business.
• Connecting to Sales & Operations: Understand the sales & operations of the business in order to identify and lead changes in our overall strategy and ultimately improve the financial health of the firm.
• Relationship Manager: Be the face of the company to our key partners in banking, bonding, insurance and your “peers” at our customers, suppliers, and other key partners. Proactively advocate for the Company and the level of service and terms required given our performance and direction.
• Systems Administrator: Identify opportunities for improvement in our financial operations, systems, and processes and hold the organization accountable to SOP’s that follow industry best practices and ensure the long term sustainable financial health of the Company.