Finance Director – M&A Integration

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Finance Director – M&A Integration to lead the financial integration of newly acquired businesses and help build a scalable finance organization capable of supporting continued growth.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this role will serve as the finance leader for post-acquisition integration efforts, partnering closely with accounting, finance, operations, IT, human resources, and acquired-company leadership teams. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting, controllership, and FP&A expertise with hands-on experience integrating businesses following acquisitions.

This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to drive meaningful impact across financial performance, systems integration, operational efficiency, and strategic growth initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

M&A Integration

• Lead the finance workstream for post-acquisition integrations.
• Develop and execute financial integration plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Evaluate accounting practices, financial processes, systems, controls, reporting, and organizational structures of acquired businesses.
• Establish Day 1, 30/60/90-day, and long-term integration priorities.
• Coordinate the integration of accounting, FP&A, treasury, payroll, purchasing, and related financial functions.
• Identify integration risks, process gaps, and opportunities for standardization and improvement.
• Partner with operational leadership to ensure business continuity throughout integration efforts.
• Monitor acquisition performance, including revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, working capital, and synergy realization.

Financial Reporting & Accounting

• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for acquired businesses.
• Standardize accounting policies, chart of accounts structures, close processes, and management reporting.
• Support purchase accounting, opening balance sheet reviews, and acquisition-related accounting matters.
• Improve close processes and accelerate integration into consolidated reporting structures.
• Strengthen financial controls, reconciliations, accrual processes, and revenue and cost recognition practices.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Develop budgets, forecasts, financial models, and operational KPIs.
• Analyze financial results against budgets, forecasts, and acquisition expectations.
• Partner with business leaders to identify financial drivers and support decision-making.
• Perform profitability analysis across customers, projects, business units, and service lines.
• Improve forecasting capabilities related to revenue, margins, labor, subcontractor costs, capital expenditures, and cash flow.

Systems, Processes & Controls

• Lead finance-related ERP, reporting, and data integration initiatives.
• Standardize financial processes and reporting across acquired companies.
• Establish and enhance internal controls and approval workflows.
• Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and scale financial processes.
• Partner with IT and finance teams to improve data quality and reporting accuracy.
• Help develop repeatable integration frameworks to support future acquisitions.

Working Capital & Cash Flow

• Improve visibility into accounts receivable, accounts payable, and working capital performance.
• Partner with operations to improve billing, collections, project closeout, and cash flow management.
• Develop metrics and accountability structures that improve cash generation and working capital efficiency.

Leadership

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to acquired-company leadership teams.
• Lead change management initiatives while building strong cross-functional relationships.
• Coach and develop finance personnel through integration activities.
• Provide executive-level updates regarding financial performance, integration progress, risks, and opportunities.
• Help create a repeatable finance integration playbook for future acquisitions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive finance and/or accounting experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading finance integration efforts following acquisitions.
• Strong background in financial reporting, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Experience integrating financial processes, reporting structures, and systems across multiple business units.
• Deep understanding of income statements, balance sheets, cash flow, working capital, and operational financial drivers.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and project management capabilities.

Preferred

• CPA, CMA, or MBA.
• Experience within construction, telecommunications, infrastructure, engineering, utilities, or other project-based industries.
• Experience with ERP implementation or integration projects, including NetSuite or similar platforms.
• Experience with Power BI or other business intelligence tools.
• Experience integrating founder-led or entrepreneurial businesses.
• Experience in a private equity-backed or acquisition-driven environment.

What Success Looks Like

• Acquired companies are integrated into standardized financial reporting processes on schedule.
• Financial controls and balance sheet integrity are strengthened.
• Accounting policies and reporting practices are standardized across acquired businesses.
• Visibility into profitability, working capital, and cash flow is improved.
• Acquisition synergies are achieved and measured effectively.
• ERP and financial data integrations are completed successfully.
• A scalable and repeatable finance integration framework is established to support future growth.

If you are a strategic finance leader who enjoys building structure, driving change, and partnering closely with executive leadership to support acquisition-driven growth, we encourage you to apply.