Director, Finance Operations (34208)

CEC is one of the top specialty subcontractors in the country. With our rapid growth, we're looking for passionate, talented, and creative individuals to join our team. If you're ready for a challenge that will elevate your career, this is the right place, right time, right people.

Position Summary

The Director of Finance Operations will oversee financial operations, ensuring accurate and timely reporting, efficient budgeting processes, and insightful financial analysis to support business decisions. This role requires a hands-on finance leader with deep expertise in financial management, preferably within construction or project-based industries, who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

The successful candidate will be highly analytical, process-oriented, and capable of working across the organization, leading teams, collaborating with executives and business units, and driving financial discipline and operational alignment. This position plays a critical role in standardizing financial practices, improving forecasting processes, and building scalable systems to support CEC's continued growth.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Lead the monthly financial close process and ensure timely and accurate reporting across all business units.
• Develop and implement standardized financial reporting processes to enhance consistency and support business decision-making.
• Build and maintain annual revenue budgets and rolling forecasts in collaboration with business leaders to ensure alignment with company goals.
• Provide financial analysis on key performance metrics, including margin performance, labor costs, and labor efficiency, with recommendations to improve profitability.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance financial workflows and operational efficiency.
• Ensure data integrity and accuracy in collaboration with support functions.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level financial reports, including variance analysis and financial trends.
• Support and optimize financial systems and tools to ensure scalability and transparency.
• Monitor compliance with internal controls and financial policies.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide real-time business insights.
• Mentor and develop finance team members to ensure high performance and cross-functional collaboration.
• Perform other related duties as assigned to ensure efficient and effective processes, completion of projects and smooth operation of department.