Director, Finance

Highwire is the Contractor Success Platform for asset owners, general contractors, and facilities managers. The world’s most admired organizations — including Skanska, Merck, and Bond Brothers — use Highwire to ensure their contractors and subcontractors deliver great work, on budget and on schedule, by collaborating with them to dynamically mitigate safety, financial, quality, and sustainability risks during capital projects and facilities maintenance. In 2021, Highwire raised a $96 million investment led by the growth equity firm Summit Partners. Highwire is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with a second office in Boise, ID.

Your mission:

As Director of Finance at Highwire, you’ll play a key role in shaping the company’s future. You’ll lead financial planning, reporting, and inform strategic decision-making across the business. From Board reporting to SaaS operating metrics, you’ll bring clarity to complexity and deliver insights that drive action. You’ll also lead our Finance team, building scalable processes that elevate financial discipline as we continue to scale.

What you'll do:

• Lead financial planning and forecasting. Manage the operating model, scenario planning, and budgeting processes in partnership with the COO and department leaders.
• Deliver timely, accurate reporting. Oversee accuracy of financial close, perform detailed variance analysis, develop real-time dashboards, and lead company-wide and Board performance reviews.
• Maintain financial discipline and compliance. Oversee cash flow planning, internal controls, and successful audit, tax, and valuation cycles.
• Build and lead a high-performing finance function. Manage the Senior Accountant and improve tools and processes to support scale.
• Partner with senior leadership. Translate data into insights and recommendations that guide company strategy and decision-making.

Who you are:

• Analytical and strategic. You see the story in the numbers and use data to influence decisions and shape the big picture.
• Proactive and solutions-oriented. You anticipate challenges and drive progress without waiting for direction.
• Collaborative and curious. You build strong relationships across teams, seek to understand how the business works, and approach feedback with openness.
• Clear and confident communicator. You bring executive presence and can distill complex ideas into clear takeaways for any audience.
• Committed to excellence. You take pride in doing great work and rise to meet the high standards expected at Highwire—delivering quality, rigor, and continuous improvement.
• Experienced in financial leadership. You’ve led financial planning and reporting at a growing company and know how to balance detail with speed.

Previous director-level experience is not required. If you’re an experienced FP&A leader or a small company Head of Finance who’s ready to step into their first Director role, we want to meet you.

Benefits:

Our benefits go well beyond the basics. To support your work-life integration, we built a benefits program that takes care of the whole person, including physical, mental, financial, and emotional health.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance to all full-time employees. Best part? You’ll be eligible on day one.
• 401k. We offer a 401k and a 3% company contribution (even better than a match) to help you get ready to retire no matter how far off that seems.
• Parental leave. We take care of new parents by offering paid time off for births, adoptions, and fostering.
• Flexible PTO. Our culture of trust and measurement means there’s no limit on time off, just an expectation of performance.
• Mentorship. Our office-based culture fosters meaningful learning, growth, and mentorship for our team.