Chief Financial Officer POST NUMBER: 474196
Location: Near Lake Forest, CA
Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 base bonus
Reports to: Owner
Industry: Commercial Subcontractor – Construction
Accounting Software: Foundation (construction specific)
Company Overview
The company is a growing commercial subcontractor in the construction industry. The organization recently expanded through the acquisition of additional companies. With strong market demand and a strategic growth plan, the company forecasts to double revenue in the next year. Annual revenue in the $40m - $50m range.
This is a pivotal time for the organization as it integrates multiple businesses, strengthens financial systems, and prepares for significant scaling.
Position Summary
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will serve as a strategic financial leader and trusted advisor to the Owner. This executive will oversee all financial operations across the multiple entities, ensuring strong financial controls, accurate reporting, and a scalable infrastructure that supports rapid growth and future acquisitions.
The candidate brings construction industry experience (required), particularly within commercial subcontracting, and has a proven background in M&A (required), audits, financial reporting, and multi entity operations. This is a hands on leadership role suited for someone who thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Strategy & Leadership
- Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long term strategic modeling.
- Partner directly with the Owner to guide financial decision making and support the company’s growth trajectory toward $100M revenue.
- Provide financial insights to improve profitability, operational efficiency, and cash flow.
- Oversee all accounting functions, including job costing, WIP reporting, multi entity consolidations, and month end close.
- Ensure timely, accurate financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
- Manage and optimize the use of Foundation construction accounting software.
- Lead financial due diligence, modeling, and integration for current and future acquisitions.
- Standardize financial processes, reporting, and controls across all acquired entities.
- Drive synergy realization and ensure smooth post acquisition transitions.
- Manage external audits and serve as the primary liaison with auditors, banks, and financial partners.
- Strengthen internal controls, financial policies, and compliance frameworks.
- Implement QA processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of financial data.
- Collaborate with operations, project management, and field teams to improve job profitability and cost controls.
- Oversee treasury, cash management, AP/AR, payroll, and financial risk management.
- Build, mentor, and develop a high performing accounting and finance team.
- Required: Construction industry experience (commercial subcontractor, mechanical, electrical, general contracting, or specialty trades).
- Required: M&A experience, including due diligence and post acquisition integration.
- Audit experience and strong internal controls background.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Experience managing multi entity financial operations.
- Strong leadership, communication, and executive level presentation skills.
Why This Role Is Compelling
- Opportunity to lead the financial strategy of a rapidly growing, multi company organization.
- Direct partnership with the Owner and executive leadership.
- Ability to build and shape the financial infrastructure for a company doubling in size.
- Stable, expanding business in a strong construction market.
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.