Senior Vice President of Finance

On-Site in Grand Rapids, MI

Our client is a rapidly expanding, investment-backed professional services organization entering an important stage of growth and operational maturity. As the business continues to scale across multiple locations and through strategic acquisitions, it is seeking an accomplished Senior Vice President of Finance to shape the financial strategy, infrastructure, and operating discipline needed for its next chapter. This is a highly visible executive opportunity for a finance leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, operations, investors, and M&A, with the ability to influence enterprise decisions while building a scalable Finance organization.

This Role Offers:

• Direct partnership with the CEO, Board, institutional investors, and senior operating leadership.
• Significant opportunity to shape financial strategy, infrastructure, reporting, and performance management as the organization expands.
• The ability to build and develop a Finance and Accounting team positioned to support long-term growth.

Focus:

• Lead enterprise planning, forecasting, financial reporting, cash management, and performance management across a complex, multi-entity organization.
• Provide executive-level financial insight to guide growth priorities, capital deployment, operating decisions, and long-range strategy.
• Direct acquisition finance activities, including due diligence, transaction analysis, financing support, and post-acquisition integration.
• Build scalable financial processes, reporting disciplines, controls, and systems that support continued organic and acquisition-driven growth.
• Partner with business leaders to improve project economics, including backlog, utilization, realization, labor performance, margins, billing, and cash conversion.
• Serve as a trusted financial partner to the CEO, Board, and institutional investors, translating performance, forecasts, risks, and opportunities into actionable recommendations.
• Lead and develop the Finance and Accounting organization, establishing clear accountability while strengthening organizational capability and succession depth.
• Advance financial and operational performance through stronger pricing, project budgeting, resource planning, automation, standardization, and continuous improvement.

Skill Set:

• 15 to 20 years of progressive Finance and/or Accounting experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Direct financial leadership experience within Architecture, Engineering, Construction, consulting, or another project-based professional services business. Architecture and Engineering experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with institutional investors, including private equity, growth equity, or venture capital stakeholders.
• Proven leadership across FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash management, and business performance management.
• Experience leading Finance teams within a multi-location, multi-entity, or similarly complex organization.
• Strong understanding of project-based professional services financial management and the operational drivers of project profitability.
• Meaningful experience supporting an acquisition-driven organization, including financial due diligence, transaction analysis, financing, and post-acquisition integration.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field, combined with strong executive communication, business judgment, and leadership capabilities.

About Blue Signal:

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