Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Construction

About the role

Our client, located in Yorktown Heights, NY is seeking an accomplished Chief Financial Officer with deep construction-industry experience and a strong accounting foundation. This is a senior financial leadership role for a CFO who is equally comfortable overseeing company strategy and getting into the details of the accounting operation. The successful candidate will take ownership of the integrity of the company's financial reporting, accounting processes, job costing, cash flow, internal controls, and project financial performance while serving as a key financial partner to ownership and senior leadership. The ideal candidate will have progressed through accounting and controllership-oriented roles and will bring hands-on expertise in construction accounting. While the CFO will contribute to planning, profitability, banking, risk management, and long-term decision-making, the primary emphasis of the position is maintaining a disciplined, accurate, timely, and well-controlled accounting and finance function. This opportunity is best suited for a construction finance executive who considers themselves an accountant first and a strategic CFO second: someone who can confidently advise ownership on the business while also ensuring that the books are right, the close is disciplined, project accounting is accurate, cash is controlled, and the financial reporting can be relied upon.

Responsibilities

• Accounting Leadership and Financial Reporting: Direct all accounting functions and maintain overall responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the company’s financial records; own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process; oversee general ledger activity, journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, intercompany transactions