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Associate Director @ Atlantic Group - Executive Search, Recruitment
Financial Controller - Engineering - M&A
We're seeking a dynamic finance professional to lead all aspects of financial operations and strategy for a growing, multi-entity organization. As the first corporate-level finance hire, you'll play a critical role in building and scaling the finance infrastructure while supporting acquisitions, integrations, and ongoing financial reporting. This is an entrepreneurial, hands-on leadership role ideal for someone eager to help shape a high-growth platform from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities:
- Financial Reporting: Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated financial statements, ensuring compliance with GAAP.
- Post-Acquisition Integration: Lead financial integrations for new acquisitions, including ERP implementation, accounting standard alignment, and consolidation.
- Financial & KPI Analysis: Conduct detailed financial and operational analyses (variance, trend, cost) and manage weekly KPI reporting to internal stakeholders.
- Cash Management: Forecast and manage cash flows to ensure liquidity across the organization.
- Audit & Compliance: Coordinate with external auditors and ensure regulatory compliance, tax filings, and financial disclosures.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the budgeting process and provide ongoing financial performance updates and variance reporting.
- ERP Oversight: Manage ERP data accuracy, streamline reporting and audit preparation, and drive system automation improvements.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement efficiencies across financial operations.
- Cost Optimization: Analyze cost structures and recommend savings initiatives to senior leadership.
- Lender Relations: Serve as the primary liaison with financial institutions, ensuring timely reporting and covenant compliance.
- Payroll Oversight: Supervise payroll processes for accuracy and compliance.
- Team Management: Collaborate with bookkeeping and financial teams at each entity to standardize and elevate accounting practices.
- M&A Support: Partner with Heritage on acquisition diligence, opening balance sheets, net working capital, and tax/valuation analysis.
- Special Projects: Lead or contribute to strategic finance initiatives, including systems integrations and cross-entity financial projects.
Qualifications:
- CPA preferred with 5+ years of experience in finance, accounting, and M&A within multi-entity or roll-up environments.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP and project-based accounting; percent-of-completion (PoC) accounting experience highly valued.
- Proven experience in high-growth, fast-paced, private equity-backed environments.
- Advanced Excel skills; proficiency in QuickBooks and ERP systems (Sage experience a plus).
- Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills.
- Hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset; comfortable building from scratch and working through ambiguity.
- Willingness to travel to portfolio companies to support on-the-ground finance teams.
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- Seniority levelMid-Senior level
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- Job functionAccounting/Auditing and Finance
- IndustriesEngineering Services and Manufacturing
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