Summary

This is a strategic, hands-on Chief Financial Officer executive leadership role to help guide the company through its next stage of growth.

The CFO will lead financial strategy, planning, reporting, cash management, business analytics, systems improvement, and financial operations. This person will play a central role in helping the company scale, improve financial visibility, support ESOP/KSOP objectives, evaluate M&A opportunities, and strengthen performance management across a multi-office professional services environment.

The ideal candidate has experience in architecture, engineering, construction, or another professional services business with multiple offices or operating units. The CFO should be both strategic and practical - able to work with executive leadership on long-term value creation while also improving reporting, systems, processes, and day-to-day financial execution.

About us

Resolut's dedication to our clients is matched by our commitment to our employees. We offer stability in a comfortable, challenging, fast-paced, and welcoming work environment. Beyond competitive benefits including health, dental, vision, 401(k), HSA and FSA plans. We invest in our employees' mental and physical well-being through an on-site gym, and a game room. We also provide access to low cost mental health counseling through our health insurance plans.

We are a diverse group of people from all backgrounds who work hard and enjoy working together.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Leadership

Serve as a key member of the executive leadership team.
Lead financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, modeling, and cash planning.
Provide financial insight to support growth, capital allocation, ownership structure, and operating decisions.
Partner with executive leadership, KSOP/ESOP advisors, trustees, valuation experts, lenders, and other external stakeholders.
Support effective use of company resources and long-term enterprise value creation.
Translate financial information into practical business guidance for operational leaders.

Scaling the Business

Help the company scale financial processes, systems, reporting, and analytics.
Develop and execute a medium-term systems roadmap, potentially including ERP, CRM, data warehouse, dashboards, and related tools.
Improve financial awareness and accountability across the organization.
Help push KPIs, dashboards, and performance reporting deeper into the organization.

Team Building for Scale

Assess the current finance and accounting organization and identify the talent, structure, processes, and capabilities needed to support the company’s next stage of growth.
Mentor a finance team that can support a larger, more complex, multi-office professional services business.
Create clear roles, accountability, reporting cadence, and decision-support capabilities within the finance function.
Develop future leaders within the finance team and raise the overall level of financial discipline across the organization.
Balance hands-on execution with the ability to delegate, develop people, and build scalable processes.
Partner with operating leaders to extend financial awareness and accountability beyond the finance department.

Operational Finance and Performance Management

Lead improvements in AR, billing, collections, utilization, backlog quality, backlog conversion, project profitability, customer profitability, team profitability, and office-level financial performance.
Develop reporting that helps leaders understand what drives margin, cash flow, growth, and value.
Strengthen forecasting accuracy and financial discipline.
Identify opportunities for efficiency and process improvement.
Support finance team development, structure, and accountability.

M&A and Integration

Lead or support buy-side M&A evaluation, financial due diligence, modeling, and integration planning.
Help assess acquisition targets from a strategic, financial, cultural, and operational perspective.
Build repeatable integration processes for finance, systems, reporting, controls, and KPIs.
Partner with leadership to ensure acquisitions support long-term company strategy.

Leadership and Culture

Build trust with executive leadership, finance team members, office leaders, and operational teams.
Communicate clearly with both financial and non-financial audiences.
Influence without unnecessary bureaucracy.
Support a collaborative, team-oriented, family-oriented culture.
Develop and mentor finance/accounting team members.
Bring strong judgment, humility, curiosity, and accountability.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Senior finance leadership experience.
Experience in architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, or another professional services environment.
Multi-office or multi-unit operating experience.
Strong financial planning, forecasting, modeling, and cash planning capabilities.
Experience improving financial systems, processes, and business intelligence tools.
M&A buy-side and integration experience.
Strong communication and executive leadership skills.
Ability to partner effectively with operational leaders.
Demonstrated experience helping a business scale.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

ESOP, KSOP, or employee-owned company experience.
EOS experience.
CPA or MBA.
Experience working with trustees, valuation firms, lenders, auditors, tax advisors, and external financial advisors.
10+ years of senior finance leadership experience.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will likely be:
Strategic but hands-on.
Comfortable in an entrepreneurial and growing company.
A strong communicator who can simplify complex financial topics.
Experienced in professional services economics.
Credible with executives, advisors, lenders, and operational leaders.
Skilled at building teams, systems, and scalable processes.
Able to balance growth, profitability, cash flow, ownership structure, and culture.
A team player who is smart, hungry, humble, and highly accountable.

Success Measures

The CFO will be successful if they:

Improve financial visibility and decision-making across the organization.
Strengthen forecasting, budgeting, cash planning, and KPI reporting.
Help leadership understand and act on project, customer, office, and team profitability.
Support effective ESOP/KSOP planning and advisor coordination.
Advance the systems and reporting roadmap.
Improve finance team capability and accountability.
Support disciplined growth, including potential M&A activity.
Build trust as a collaborative executive partner.

Compensation

Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Final structure may include base salary, performance incentives, long-term incentives, ownership-related benefits, and standard company benefits, subject to company policy and final role design.

Pay: From $185,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
Dental insurance
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance

Ability to Relocate:

Salt Lake City, UT 84107: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

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