Chief Financial Officer

Fahrenheit Advisors • Full-time • Wendell, NC, US • 7h ago

Fahrenheit Advisors has been retained by SPC Mechanical, a mechanical construction companybased in Wendell, North Carolina, to recruit a strategic and experienced Chief Financial Officer(CFO) to lead the finance function.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Founded more than 60 years ago, SPC Mechanical is a privately held, employee-owned construction firm with offices in Wendell, Zebulon, Elon, and Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2025, SPC reached a defining milestone by becoming 100% employee-owned through the creation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). This transition secures the company’s legacy in the hands of the people who know it best—its employees.

Built on the values of hard work, integrity, and teamwork established by founders Buren and Peggy, SPC continues that tradition through its ESOP by rewarding every team member with a meaningful stake in the company’s future. Today, more than 350 employee-owners carry forward that original vision and pride, building not only high-quality projects but also a shared future together.

Another cornerstone of SPC’s success is the depth of expertise among its construction professionals and the wide range of capabilities they bring to every project. Always at the forefront of industry advancements, the SPC team leverages state-of-the-art technologies and processes to strategically plan and manage projects of all sizes, scopes, and complexities. Each employee plays a vital role, collaborating across departments to ensure consistent, successful project delivery.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative executive management team and to make a significant, personal contribution to the purposeful, strategic growth of a well-established company by leading the evolution of their existing CFO role to an increasingly value-adding strategic focus.

Specific Responsibilities include:

Core Financial Functions

Overall leadership responsibility for the existing, high quality accounting function (and department) with all its relevant reporting, transactional, and fiduciary responsibilities.
Board reporting and engagement
Manage the capital strategy and serve as primary liaison to outside lenders, banking, and other institutions
Design and manage the company’s employee incentive plans
ESOP Management
Risk Management
Outside Investments

Strategic Focus

Build and sustain strong, trust-based relationships with internal teams, partners, and clients to support collaboration, drive successful project delivery, and strengthen long-term business performance.
Strategic Financial Planning for all aspects of the company
Building relationships with
Engage and support operating company leadership in their pursuit and execution of their work and their respective business units’ strategies
Engage operating company leadership generally in the collection and analysis of project, industry, market, and bid-estimate data
Further establish company and project financial performance parameters with ensuing oversight and analysis
CEO & President support and counsel
Assist in broadening business acumen among operations personnel.
Be a ‘connector’ across the company

As opportunities arise, SPC Mechanical would like to engage in the purposeful acquisition of new business units and anticipates that the new CFO will play a crucial role in planning and executing those transactions.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

The successful candidate will be an experienced finance executive with a minimum of 10 years of experience. S/he will have prior experience serving as a corporate or division-level leader and have had oversight of a similarly sized organization.

Other key requirements include:

A commitment to the Company’s Core Purpose, Core Values, and sustainable employee-ownership
Demonstrated competence as a strong commercially focused financial manager with both a broad and deep repertoire of financial knowledge and skills.
Proven experience building, mentoring, motivating and leading high performing teams and attracting and retaining top talent.
Skilled at highly efficient working capital management and the creation of meaningful long-term projections.
Exceptional competency in financial analysis and management/project accounting.
Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills which allows her/him to communicate sensibly to both the financially astute, as well as, those whose financial acumen may not be high but, who, given their role, are critical to the success of the mission.
Demonstrated ability to think “out-of-the-box” in improving corporate performance by influencing colleagues and management to improve returns on specific projects and the business as a whole.
Demonstrated success in achieving financial expectations and driving contract performance by focusing on the detail of contract terms and award, and driving contract performance to deliver value.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

A hands-on, collaborative, results-oriented executive with the ability and confidence to quickly earn the respect of the executive management team and the Board.
Must be able to establish credibility and be a leader who both speaks and acts with authority gained through experience, and who has sufficient know-how to impact the business in a powerful way.
Will exhibit the highest standards of professional integrity and ethics.
Possesses the desire to lead and develop the people in her/his organization to achieve their maximum performance levels.
Able to adapt to and accommodate existing cultural norms.
Able to challenge existing, non-beneficial cultural norms and effect change through patient persuasion.
Comfortable with ambiguity and working within an environment that is not hierarchical or title-focused.
High-energy; able to work well with multiple priorities and global responsibilities.
Flexible and adaptable, seeks out and is open to new ideas and approaches.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

Builds and Leverages Relationships