Chief Financial Officer
"If you'd rather build something than simply maintain it, and our mission speaks to you, I'd genuinely welcome a conversation."
Koniag Energy & Water (KEW)
📍 Location: Remote (Texas preferred)
👤 Reports To: Chief Executive Officer
🧭 Type: Full-Time | Executive Leadership Team
About KEW
Koniag Energy & Water (KEW) is a fast-growing industrial instrumentation, controls and engineering company and a Sector of Koniag, Inc., an Alaska Native Regional Corporation. Through our operating companies, we provide instrumentation, controls and electrical engineering, automation and operational technology solutions, electrical services, products and technology, and professional engineering services to clients across the energy, refining, petrochemical, utility, water and government sectors throughout the United States and Canada.
KEW is acquiring a Houston-based instrumentation and controls company in Q4 2026, adding significant Gulf Coast and Canadian operations and more than doubling the size of our current business. This acquisition is the foundation for an ambitious growth strategy targeting $200 million in revenue over the next five years through organic expansion, cross-selling and future acquisitions.
As a Sector of Koniag, KEW's success contributes directly to programs supporting Alutiiq Shareholders and their Descendants, including scholarships, elder benefits, dividends and other long-term opportunities. The CFO will play a meaningful role in helping build value that supports those benefits for future generations.
The Opportunity
KEW is seeking its first sector-level Chief Financial Officer to serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and a hands-on finance leader for the combined organization.
This role will lead finance integration following the Houston acquisition, drive ERP and systems modernization, oversee project accounting and reporting, support growth initiatives and M&A activity, and provide executive oversight for Human Resources and Information Technology across the KEW platform.
This is an opportunity to build rather than maintain. We're looking for a leader who enjoys creating scalable systems, processes and teams within a growing entrepreneurial organization.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership
- Lead finance teams across Alaska, Houston and Canada.
- Serve as a member of KEW's executive leadership team.
- Partner closely with Koniag executive leadership and corporate finance.
- Develop enterprise finance standards, controls and reporting practices.
- Build organizational capability to support future growth and acquisitions.
- Foster a culture of accountability, accuracy and operational partnership.
Integration & Systems Transformation
- Lead finance integration of the Houston acquisition and Canadian operations.
- Establish a consolidated multi-entity, multi-currency finance structure.
- Personally lead KEW's ERP transformation, including project planning, governance, implementation partner management, stakeholder alignment, budget oversight and deployment.
- Today our companies operate on different Microsoft Dynamics 365 platforms, including Business Central and Finance & Operations. The CFO will assess the current environments, select the long-term architecture and lead consolidation onto a scalable platform capable of supporting future acquisitions.
- Standardize chart of accounts, close processes, internal controls and project accounting practices.
- Drive digital workflows, reporting automation and AI-enabled finance processes.
- KEW intends to incorporate AI-enabled tools into finance and operations, including close management, account reconciliations, forecasting, workflow automation, analytics and decision support.
- Identify and deliver operational and back-office synergies across businesses.
Strategy, Growth & M&A
- Partner with the CEO on growth strategy, capital allocation and long-range planning.
- Support acquisition valuation, financial due diligence and post-merger integration.
- Develop financial models and business cases supporting growth initiatives.
- Help position KEW for future acquisitions and geographic expansion.
Financial Reporting & Control
- Own monthly, quarterly and annual close processes.
- Prepare consolidated financial statements and executive reporting packages for KEW leadership, the Board and Koniag corporate finance.
- Serve as KEW's primary finance liaison to Koniag leadership and corporate finance, ensuring alignment on reporting, budgeting, capital planning and governance.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment and manage external audit relationships.
- Ensure compliance with ASC 606 revenue recognition requirements.
- Oversee percentage-of-completion accounting, change orders, retainage, estimates-at-completion and project margin performance across engineering, automation, field services and construction projects.
- Manage consolidation of Canadian operations, including foreign currency translation, remeasurement and intercompany transactions.
- Lead annual budgeting, forecasting and cash flow planning.
Project Accounting & Commercial Support
- Strengthen job costing, backlog visibility, project reporting and WIP management.
- Improve margin visibility across engineering, instrumentation, controls, construction and field service operations.
- Support pricing decisions, contract reviews and profitability analysis.
- Develop KPI dashboards and operational reporting tools that provide real-time business insights.
Treasury, Tax & Risk Management
- Manage banking relationships, cash flow, working capital and bonding capacity.
- Oversee U.S. and Canadian tax compliance and cross-border financial structures.
- Manage risk, insurance programs and foreign exchange exposure.
- Lead financial oversight of a cross-border organization operating in both U.S. and Canadian currencies and regulatory environments.
Governance & Compliance
- Support reporting requirements for KEW and Koniag leadership.
- Maintain compliant accounting systems and financial controls.
- Support federal contracting readiness and compliant accounting structures.
- Ensure compliance with applicable payroll, tax, labor and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Human Resources & Information Technology
- Provide executive oversight of HR and IT across the KEW platform.
- Support integration of payroll, HRIS and enterprise technology systems.
- Promote secure, scalable technology infrastructure and responsible AI adoption.
- Help build the organizational foundation needed to support continued growth.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience.
- Minimum 5 years serving as CFO, Divisional CFO or VP Finance.
- Experience within industrial instrumentation and controls, engineering, construction, electrical contracting or field services organizations with project-based revenue.
- Strong project accounting expertise, including WIP reporting, job costing, percentage-of-completion accounting and ASC 606.
- Demonstrated acquisition and post-merger integration experience.
- Experience operating within complex multi-entity organizations.
- Multi-currency experience, including USD/CAD environments.
- Proven ERP implementation and finance systems transformation experience.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Business Central and/or Finance & Operations) preferred.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled finance tools is a plus.
- Experience leading finance organizations in acquisitive, high-growth environments is preferred.
- Experience with government contracting, including DCAA-compliant accounting systems, federal cost structures, prevailing wage requirements and certified payroll processes, is highly desirable.
- Experience overseeing HR and IT functions preferred.
- Ability to lead distributed teams while maintaining a hands-on approach.
- CPA and/or MBA required.
- Commitment to Koniag's mission, values and long-term vision.
What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months
- Consistent, board-ready consolidated reporting across all entities, including Canadian operations.
- Successful finance integration of the Houston acquisition with unified policies, controls and reporting standards.
- Houston, Alaska and Canadian finance teams operating under common enterprise processes and expectations.
- Improved project-level WIP reporting, margin visibility, backlog analysis and operational KPI reporting.
- ERP strategy approved and implementation underway, with the CFO serving as executive sponsor and day-to-day leader of the transformation effort.
- Initial AI-enabled finance processes piloted and delivering measurable value.
- HR and IT integration plans established and advancing.
- Finance organization prepared to support future acquisitions and continued growth.
Compensation
Competitive base salary, annual incentive opportunity, long-term incentive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
KEW is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Consistent with Section 14(g) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, preference may be given to qualified Koniag Shareholders and their Descendants.
