Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - Consulting Engineering

Head of Finance provides overall financial leadership for ADF Engineering and serves as a key strategic partner to the President and Board of Directors in advancing the company's growth, profitability, and long-term success. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in finance topics: accounting, budgeting, capital planning, financial reporting, business analytics & reporting. Candidate will need effective management practices, combining strong financial acumen with a commercial mindset and an ability to operate at both tactical and strategic levels. This individual must be able to influence, challenge, and support operational leaders in a collaborative manner. The role requires the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality to build credibility, influence stakeholders, and foster trusted relationships across the organization.

• →Lead all finance and accounting functions for the organization.
• →Own the monthly close to GAAP-including project-based revenue recognition and WIP accrual-AP, AR, payroll, treasury/banking, and net working capital tracking.
• →Oversee project accounting, WIP, utilization, backlog, job costing, and project profitability.
• →Improve working capital, billing, collections, and cash-flow forecasting.
• →Lead FP&A reporting, budgeting, and P&L and cash flow forecasts, surfacing the performance trends, risks, and opportunities that drive visibility and enable strategic decision-making.
• →Support M&A through diligence on add-on acquisitions pre-close and own the integration dashboard and financial integration post-close.
• →Drive financial and operational decision-making that supports revenue growth, profitability improvement, and long-term value creation.
• →Lead the continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, and internal controls while ensuring compliance with budgets, accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and financial policies.
• →Develop constructive relationships with external partners, lenders, auditors, and other stakeholders as appropriate to the role.
• →Establish and document finance processes and SOPs, and build out the finance team over time as the business scales.

• Progressive finance leadership experience, ideally as a Director of Finance, VP of Finance, CFO, or a Controller ready to step up with exposure to the full finance function.
• Strong FP&A orientation and business/operational finance skill set; a strategic finance partner who is still willing to own the fundamentals
• Hands-on operator comfortable in a lean, fast-moving, growth environment.
• Experience with GAAP, financial modeling, and building financial infrastructure and reporting.
• Experience in engineering, professional services, or another project-based business.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the Engineering/Architecture industry such as Deltek Vantagepoint, NetSuite, Unanet, or BQE, etc.
• Experience in a Private Equity-backed environment with exposure to M&A
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA, MBA, or CMA a plus.

• Reports to the President, with dual reporting to the investment sponsors
• Full Time, a minimum of 40 hours per week.
• Position is based on-site at ADF's Miamisburg, OH (South Dayton) office. Candidates in or willing to relocate to the greater Dayton area (including the Cincinnati and Columbus corridors) are encouraged to apply.

All qualified applicants will be subject to drug screening, background checks, verification of academic records.