Financial Controller (Construction)

Or client, a Construction company in Fort Myers, FL is seeking a Financial Controller to join their team. The Financial Controller will be responsible for overseeing all financial and fiscal management aspects of the company, reporting directly to the Managing Partners. This role involves leading forecasting, budgeting, cash flow projections, and financial planning while ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal reporting requirements. Key duties include overseeing financial operations, analyzing costs and forecasts, managing audits, payroll, and tax planning, as well as maintaining internal controls and risk management strategies. The position requires strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with a preference for candidates holding a CPA designation and experience with Sage Intacct software.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Create, coordinate, and evaluate the financial programs and supporting information systems of the company to include budgeting, tax planning, real estate, and conservation of assets.
• Oversees, directs, and coordinates business practices and financial operations.
• Analyzes costs, operations, and forecasts data on services and program activities in coordination with Partners and upper management.
• Responsible for timely and accurate analysis of budgets, financial reports and financial trends in order to assist key stakeholders inclusive of Growth and Strategy division in making crucial decisions related to business development and growth of each service line.
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal budgetary reporting requirements.
• Oversee the approval and processing of revenue, expenditure, and position control documents, department budgets, mass salary updates, ledger, bank statement reconciliation, account maintenance, account payments and data entry.
• Prepare financial statements, financial reports, financial analyses, financial forecasting and bonus and dividend distributions for the CPA to review
• Work with external CPA to prepare corporate taxes and strategies
• Develop and implement finance, accounting, and auditing procedures and maintain appropriate internal control safeguards.
• Interact with other managers to provide consultative support to planning initiatives through financial and management information analyses, reports, and recommendations.
• Ensure records systems are maintained in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.
• Develop and direct the implementation of strategic business and/or operational plans, projects, programs, and systems.
• Analyze cash flow, cost controls, and expenses to guide company expenditures.
• Optimizing capital returns and minimizing costs
• Keeping the third party financing companies and other stakeholders informed
• Develop, evaluate and implement Risk Management Plan. Analyze financial statements to pinpoint potential weak areas.
• Maintaining and reviewing internal controls
• Overseeing the financial team
• Evaluate, develop and implement comprehensive compensation and benefits plans that are competitive and cost-effective.
• Oversee and provide analysis of employee benefits and retirement plans.

Experience/Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field required
• Master’s degree in Business or CPA designation preferred
• Thorough understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Thorough understanding of generally accepted auditing standards.
• Prior experience as a CFO or Financial Director preferred
• Strong proficiency using Sage Intacct Software is required

Additional Experience:

• Accounting: 5 years (Required)
• GAAP: 5 years (Required)
• Microsoft Office: 5 years (Required)
• Sage 5 years (Required)

The compensation for this position ranges from $120,000.00 - $160,000.00. Actual compensation will be dependent upon the specific role, office location as well as the individual’s qualifications, experience, skills and certifications.

To all staffing agencies: PKF O’Connor Davies TalentConnect (“PKFOD TalentConnect”) will not be utilizing agencies to staff this position. Please do not forward resumes to PKFOD TalentConnect recruiters, partners and/or employees at any of our locations regarding this position. Please be reminded, PKFOD TalentConnect is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. All unsolicited resumes will become the property of PKFOD TalentConnect.

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