Chief Financial Officer

At Auld & White Constructors, we are seeking a Chief Financial Officer to serve as a forward-looking business partner to the CEO and leadership team. This individual will provide enterprise-level financial leadership, strengthen decision-making, and develop the strategy, planning, controls, and reporting necessary to support AWC's continued growth and scale. This leader will partner closely with an experienced Controller, Finance, Operations, and other leaders to improve visibility, manage risk, and translate financial information into actionable business insights.

Responsibilities

Lead the company's financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and capital allocation activities to support profitable growth and long-term business objectives; Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO, providing an independent financial perspective on growth, profitability, risk, capital allocation, talent investment, and long-term value; Develop a long-term financial roadmap that aligns balance sheet capacity, compensation, distributions, reinvestment, and growth objectives with the company's long-term interests; Lead cash forecasting, working capital strategy, banking relationships, credit facilities, and capital planning, with a focus on billing, capital utilization, and converting project profitability into timely and predictable cash flow; Partner with CEO and surety providers to proactively manage bonding capacity and understand the balance sheet, liquidity, working capital, and backlog implications of planned growth; Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and long-range financial planning; establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and reporting that provide a forward-looking view of performance; Partner with Operations to evaluate project and division performance, including job cost reporting, work-in-progress reporting, backlog, margin trends, change orders, and emerging financial risks; Strengthen project forecasting and estimated-cost-to-complete discipline, including early identification of margin fade, cost overruns, change-order exposure, schedule impacts, and other indicators of project risk; Provide leadership through the Controller and Finance team while maintaining clear ownership and accountability across the finance function; Oversee audit, tax, compliance, insurance, internal controls, and enterprise risk management; Improve financial systems, data quality, reporting, automation, and workflow efficiency while ensuring processes and controls can scale without unnecessarily slowing operational decision-making; Represent AWC with banks, surety providers, insurers, auditors, and other financial stakeholders

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field required; CPA and/or MBA or comparable advanced credentials strongly preferred; Minimum of 15 years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including at least 5 years in a senior financial leadership role with enterprise-level responsibility; Demonstrated success leading financial strategy, controls, cash management, forecasting, and overall business performance; Experience leading through an experienced Controller and accounting team and developing finance leadership talent and succession depth; Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, capital planning, banking relationships, audit, tax, insurance, risk management, and internal controls; Experience in commercial construction or a comparable project-based business is preferred but not required; The ability to quickly learn AWC's business model is essential; Understanding of project-based financial management, including job costing, percentage-of-completion accounting, backlog analysis, margin management, change orders, and project closeout; Strong communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills with the ability to make complex financial topics understandable to non-financial leaders

Nice to have

Experience in commercial construction or a comparable project-based business; CPA and/or MBA or comparable advanced credentials