Vice President Finance

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.