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
The Opportunity
KEW is seeking its first sector-level Chief Financial Officer to serve as a strategic partner to the CEO and a highly 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.
This is not a traditional large-company CFO role. The successful candidate will be expected to personally lead ERP transformation initiatives, drive finance integration efforts, build consolidated financial reporting processes, and remain closely involved in day-to-day finance and accounting execution. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable developing strategy and rolling up their sleeves to solve problems directly.
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.
- Serve as both executive sponsor and active project leader throughout the ERP transformation effort, driving process design, reporting architecture, data standards, user adoption, and organizational change management.
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.
- Personally lead the development and refinement of consolidated reporting packages during the integration and transformation period while establishing scalable long-term reporting processes.
- Remain actively involved in close processes, consolidations, reporting design, and financial analysis rather than relying solely on delegated resources.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience.
- Minimum 5 years serving as CFO, Divisional CFO, VP Finance, Corporate Controller, or a combination of senior finance leadership roles with significant responsibility for accounting, financial reporting, consolidations, and ERP implementation.
- 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.
- Candidates who advanced from Controller or Corporate Controller roles into CFO positions are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Demonstrated experience personally leading ERP implementations, finance system integrations, reporting consolidations, chart-of-account standardization, and post-acquisition finance integration efforts is strongly preferred.
- Must be comfortable operating in a lean, high-growth environment where the CFO is expected to function as both a strategic leader and an individual contributor when necessary.
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.
- ERP implementation actively progressing, with the CFO serving as the primary business leader responsible for process design, reporting requirements, organizational alignment, user adoption, and change management.
- A scalable consolidated reporting framework established across all entities, with accurate and timely financial reporting supporting both executive decision-making and future acquisitions.
