The posting
At Auld & White Constructors, we are seeking a Chief Financial Officer to serve as a forward-looking business partner to the CEO and leadership team. This individual will provide enterprise-level financial leadership, strengthen decision-making, and develop the strategy, planning, controls, and reporting necessary to support AWC’s continued growth and scale.
This is an opportunity to help shape the future of one of Northeast Florida's most respected construction companies. The ideal candidate combines strategic perspective with sound judgment, clear communication, and a willingness to engage in important details. This leader will partner closely with an experienced Controller, Finance, Operations, and other leaders to improve visibility, manage risk, and translate financial information into actionable business insights.
Why Join Auld & White Constructors?
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the CEO and leadership team and influence AWC’s next phase of growth.
- Develop the financial strategy and capacity necessary to support profitable growth while balancing project economics, liquidity, bonding capacity, risk, and long-term value.
- Join an organization with a strong operational foundation, an experienced finance team, and leaders who value collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Bring fresh perspective and help strengthen the systems, processes, and insights that support long-term success.
- Join a company known for its strong culture and consistently recognized as one of Jacksonville's Best Places to Work.
Position Description
- Lead the company's financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and capital allocation activities to support profitable growth and long-term business objectives.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO, providing an independent financial perspective on growth, profitability, risk, capital allocation, talent investment, and long-term value.
- Develop a long-term financial roadmap that aligns balance sheet capacity, compensation, distributions, reinvestment, and growth objectives with the company's long-term interests.
- Lead cash forecasting, working capital strategy, banking relationships, credit facilities, and capital planning, with a focus on billing, capital utilization, and converting project profitability into timely and predictable cash flow.
- Partner with CEO and surety providers to proactively manage bonding capacity and understand the balance sheet, liquidity, working capital, and backlog implications of planned growth.
- Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and long-range financial planning; establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and reporting that provide a forward-looking view of performance.
- Partner with Operations to evaluate project and division performance, including job cost reporting, work-in-progress reporting, backlog, margin trends, change orders, and emerging financial risks.
- Strengthen project forecasting and estimated-cost-to-complete discipline, including early identification of margin fade, cost overruns, change-order exposure, schedule impacts, and other indicators of project risk.
- Provide leadership through the Controller and Finance team while maintaining clear ownership and accountability across the finance function.
- Oversee audit, tax, compliance, insurance, internal controls, and enterprise risk management.
- Improve financial systems, data quality, reporting, automation, and workflow efficiency while ensuring processes and controls can scale without unnecessarily slowing operational decision-making.
- Represent AWC with banks, surety providers, insurers, auditors, and other financial stakeholders
Position Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field required; CPA and/or MBA or comparable advanced credentials strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 15 years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including at least 5 years in a senior financial leadership role with enterprise-level responsibility.
- Demonstrated success leading financial strategy, controls, cash management, forecasting, and overall business performance.
- Experience leading through an experienced Controller and accounting team and developing finance leadership talent and succession depth.
- Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, capital planning, banking relationships, audit, tax, insurance, risk management, and internal controls.
- Experience in commercial construction or a comparable project-based business is preferred but not required. The ability to quickly learn AWC's business model is essential.
- Understanding of project-based financial management, including job costing, percentage-of-completion accounting, backlog analysis, margin management, change orders, and project closeout.
- Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, capital planning, banking relationships, audit, tax, insurance, risk management, and internal controls.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and leadership skills with the ability to make complex financial topics understandable to non-financial leaders.
Auld & White Constructors is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Auld & White does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
