🏗️ Confidential Executive Search | South Florida
Chief Financial Officer
Growth-stage manufacturer | M&A experience required | Direct seat at the ownership table
The Opportunity:
Confidential CFO search for a South Florida–based manufacturing company that has quietly become one of the most respected names in the region’s construction supply chain.
The company is at a major growth inflection point, with multiple operating facilities, a strong backlog, and work tied to some of South Florida’s most recognizable luxury residential, hospitality, commercial, and mixed-use developments.
This is not a maintenance CFO role. Ownership is looking for a strategic financial leader who can help professionalize the finance function, bring structure to a growing multi-facility operation, and play a key role in the company’s next chapter.
M&A experience is critical. The ideal candidate has been directly involved in transactions, understands diligence, deal readiness, financial storytelling, integration, and value creation, and can operate as a true partner to ownership through complex strategic initiatives.
What You’ll Own
- Lead financial strategy, planning, reporting, and analysis across a multi-facility manufacturing operation
- Partner directly with ownership and the executive team on capital strategy, growth planning, and long-term value creation
- Drive M&A-related initiatives, including diligence preparation, transaction support, financial modeling, integration planning, and post-close execution
- Build, lead, and professionalize the finance, accounting, and FP&A functions as the company scales
- Improve job costing, margin analysis, WIP reporting, and project-level profitability across fabrication and installation work
- Oversee treasury, banking relationships, risk, insurance, audit, tax, bonding, and surety relationships
- Create the financial systems, processes, reporting cadence, and infrastructure needed to support continued growth
- Serve as a hands-on executive who can operate strategically while still being close enough to the details to drive execution
What You Bring
- Must-have: Direct M&A experience — buy-side, sell-side, diligence, integration, or transaction leadership
- Strongly preferred: Manufacturing, fabrication, industrial, construction services, or construction-adjacent experience
- Must-have: Prior CFO, VP Finance, or senior finance leadership experience in a middle-market business
- 10+ years of progressive financial leadership experience
- Experience working in a founder-led or owner-operated environment
- Strong understanding of job-cost accounting, WIP reporting, project-based margin analysis, and operational finance
- Ability to build the finance function, not just maintain it
- CPA, MBA, or equivalent credentials are a plus, but real transaction experience matters most
Why This Role Stands Out
- Growth-stage company with a real backlog and strong market position
- Direct access to ownership and the executive team
- Meaningful M&A activity and strategic growth initiatives ahead
- Opportunity to build and professionalize the finance function
- Highly competitive compensation package with long-term incentive potential
- South Florida-based opportunity in a strong and growing construction-related market
- Chance to play a major role in the next phase of a respected manufacturing business
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