Senior Financial Manager

Senior Financial Manager Cedar Rapids, IA| On-site

A locally owned shared service company in Eastern Iowa is supporting a growing group of 30+ independently owned construction, manufacturing and industrial companies with strategic and financial solutions. They are seeking a motivated financial professional to join their finance team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as a Senior Financial Manager. This is a newly created position to serve as the CFO’s right hand in the field as an execution-focused financial systems expert and operational fixer.

This is not a traditional accounting role centered on month-end close.

You’llserve as an execution-focused partner to the CFO,to diagnose financial and operational issues, improve systems and processes, and turn analysis into action. Youwon'talways walk into clean data, standardized processes, or perfectly configured systems. Technology is a tool in this role, not the end goal —you'llstart with the business problem and work backward to the right financial, process, data, or technology solution.

Part of the job is figuring out what is actually happening, creating structure, and getting the right people aligned around a solution.

The financial team is growing an interest in M&A astheyevaluate additional companies to bring into the shared-services model, and this person will be pulled into that work as it develops — assessing the financials of prospective add-ons and supporting integration once they join.

This is initially an individual-contributorleadership role with significant influence across portfolio companies; team leadership opportunities may develop as the platform grows.

• Serve as the CFO's right hand— taking ownership of delegated projects, financial analysis, and initiatives across the portfolio, with increasing autonomy as you build trust

• Drive project-level profitability analysis— digging into job profitability, gain/fade, margins, WIP, and other operational drivers to help leadership understand not just what the numbers are, but why

• Work directly with portfolio companies to diagnose the root cause of financial and operational issues and help implement solutions, including on-site support when needed

• Evaluate financial and operational processes end to end— understanding how operations, processes, systems, data, and accountingultimately flow through to financial results rather than fixing one piece in isolation

• Support ERP and financial system implementations, conversions, and integrationsacross portfolio companies — from requirements and data validation through testing, transition, and user adoption

• Translate business problems into practical financial, process, and systems solutions, partnering with company leadership and users to ensure improvementsactually workin the field

• Improve the quality and usability of financial data and reportingbyidentifyinggaps in processes, system configuration, workflows, and underlying data

• Identify and drive process improvements across the portfolio, including opportunities to use automation, better reporting tools, and emerging AI capabilities to reduce manual work and improve decision-making

• Support M&A activity—assisting with financial due diligence on prospective add-on companies and post-close integration into the shared-services model

• 6+years in accounting or financial analysis, with real exposure to root-cause problem solvingandfinancial systemswork – not just reporting

• A track recordof taking ambiguous, delegated projects and running them to completion with minimal oversight

• Comfortable being trusted with sensitive information andoperatingas a genuine partner to a senior finance leader

• A strong communicator with high EQ — equally comfortable in an office setting or working directly with portfolio company leadership and their teams

• Travel to portfolio companies as needed,approximately 10–15%

• Experience translating financial or operational needs into system, reporting, workflow, or process improvements

• Experiencewithhands-onERP implementations or integrations (Epicor, Quick Books Online, Acumatica, or similar industrial platforms), along with advanced data/reporting skills

• Exposure to WIP…