Vice President Finance

Hays · West palm beach, United States

Company Description:

• National design, engineering, and professional services firm that provides services across transportation, water resources, buildings, land development, and geospatial markets.
• Private equity-backed and currently in a significant growth phase, with an active M&A pipeline and increasing sponsor, lender, and board reporting requirements.
• Operates across multiple divisions with a complex project-based business model.
• Technology-focused organization investing in business intelligence, automation, AI, and advanced forecasting capabilities.
• Also operates a software business focused on technology solutions within its broader end markets.
• This is a newly created senior finance leadership position designed to serve as a second-in-command to the CFO.
• The role has significant executive exposure and partners closely with the CFO, CEO, division leadership, private equity sponsor, lenders, and Board.
• Based in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Job duties:

• Lead corporate financial planning, including the annual budget, multi-year strategic plan, and rolling forecasts in partnership with the CFO and operational leadership.
• Lead the financial component of the company’s three-year strategic planning process, including planning sessions with the private equity sponsor.
• Build and maintain the enterprise long-range financial model covering capital allocation, organic and acquisition-driven growth, capacity planning, and return on invested capital by division.
• Develop scenario analyses around business mix, geographic expansion, capital structure, major investments, and other strategic decisions.
• Serve as the internal financial lead and day-to-day project manager for M&A transactions, coordinating internal teams and external financial, tax, legal, and diligence advisors.
• Own financial due diligence, including Quality of Earnings, working capital analysis, financial diligence, run-rate normalization, and management presentations.
• Build and maintain accretion/dilution models, sources-and-uses analyses, returns and IRR models, capital structure scenarios, and synergy cases.
• Partner with senior strategy leadership to monitor and evaluate the M&A pipeline.
• Translate letters of intent and term sheets into board-ready economic summaries.
• Own the financial aspects of post-close integration, including synergy tracking, earn-out economics, KPI alignment, and 100-day financial milestones.
• Help prepare monthly reporting for the CFO, CEO, Board, and private equity sponsor, including executive summaries, divisional scorecards, variance analysis, forecasts, liquidity, backlog, bookings, and headcount reporting.
• Lead covenant compliance reporting and forward-looking covenant cushion analysis, identifying risks and recommending corrective actions.
• Prepare quarterly board materials covering financial performance, divisional results, capital allocation, variances, and forward-looking forecasts.
• Serve as a primary FP&A contact for the private equity sponsor, lenders, external auditors, and the Board’s Audit and Finance Committee.
• Continuously improve the quality, timeliness, and analytical depth of investor-grade financial reporting.
• Partner with divisional leaders to drive accountability around NSR, utilization, multiplier, labor variance, pre-allocation profit, and EBITDA.
• Own financial analytics for monthly business reviews, project economics, DSO, working capital, pricing, and multiplier performance.
• Utilize project and financial systems along with Power BI to deliver decision-ready dashboards and reporting.
• Partner with business intelligence teams on Power BI enhancements and machine-learning-based revenue forecasting models.
• Partner with HR and the CFO on incentive compensation, including bonus pool modeling, company performance modifiers, target-setting analytics, and year-end true-ups.
• Partner with finance leadership supporting the company’s software business and its P&L.
• Build out the FP&A function, including hiring, mentoring, and developing analyst-level talent.
• Establish scalable financial processes, reporting templates, tools, and operating standards.
• Champion continuous improvement, automation, and AI-enabled processes to reduce manual data validation and improve the speed of financial insights.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive finance or transaction services experience.
• Meaningful FP&A leadership experience within a private equity-backed, multi-site, multi-division organization.
• Experience within engineering, infrastructure, design, professional services, government services, or another project-based business is preferred.
• Demonstrated M&A experience across multiple completed transactions, including financial modeling, diligence, negotiation support, and post-close integration.
• Experience working within a programmatic acquisition environment is strongly preferred.
• Direct experience with private equity sponsor reporting, lender covenant management, and board-level financial communication.
• Advanced financial modeling capabilities including three-statement, working capital, operational driver, transaction, returns, and IRR models.
• Strong understanding of project-based accounting and KPIs including utilization, multiplier, labor variance, NSR-to-GSR, pre-allocation profit, and EBITDA.
• Hands-on experience with ERP and professional services automation systems.
• Strong business intelligence experience, with Power BI preferred.
• Experience building, establishing, or significantly improving an FP&A function within a fast-growing private equity-backed organization is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to software or SaaS economics, including ARR, gross margin, and unit economics, is preferred.
• Experience with incentive compensation design, financial modeling, and execution at scale is preferred.
• Ability to operate as a strategic partner to senior executives while remaining hands-on with financial modeling, analysis, reporting, and transaction execution.

Compensation :

• Competitive executive-level base salary.
• Performance-based incentive compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Health Savings Account with company contribution.
• Pet insurance.
• Employee assistance program.