Hybrid Finance Shared Services Director

At Guardian Restoration Partners, we are on a mission to build the most impactful restoration business in the industry. Our network of "Guardians" helps property owners in crisis rebuild their lives after devastating events like water, fire, and mold damage. As part of our team, you’ll be contributing to a company that values results, integrity, and putting customers first.

Guardian is a high-growth, private equity–backed company building a national platform in the restoration and field services industry. Through a focused acquisition strategy and strong organic growth, we are creating a best‑in‑class organization that combines local market expertise with the scale, systems, and discipline of a national platform.

Guardian Restoration Partners is seeking a Director of Shared Services to lead the development, execution, and scaling of centralized finance and accounting operations across the company. This role reports to the Senior Vice President, Accounting and will initially operate as an individual contributor with potential to build and lead a team as the function matures.

• Design, implement, and scale Guardian’s shared services function across accounting and finance operations.
• Establish clear ownership, service‑level expectations, workflows, escalation paths, and performance metrics.
• Initially serve as a hands‑on operator while building scalable processes, playbooks, and infrastructure.
• Evaluate future staffing needs and support the buildout of a shared services team as the function grows.
• Partner with corporate accounting, regional controllers, finance, operations, and local office teams to drive consistent execution.
• Support integration of new locations, offices, and acquired businesses into standardized finance and accounting processes.

• Oversee and improve shared services processes across the full accounting operations lifecycle, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash application, collections support, payroll support, procurement support, customer and job‑level transaction support, bank activity and banking platform workflows, month‑end close support, reconciliations and supporting schedules, audit and documentation support.

• Develop, document, and maintain standard operating procedures across shared services processes.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and control weaknesses in current workflows.
• Implement scalable processes that improve accuracy, timeliness, visibility, and accountability.
• Strengthen documentation, approval workflows, audit trails, and segregation of duties.
• Create and monitor KPIs related to transaction processing, close support, backlog, exceptions, accuracy, and service levels.
• Drive continuous improvement across finance operations and shared services workflows.

• Serve as a power user and process owner across Sage, Ramp, Flo Qast, Albi, ADP, , banking platforms, and related tools.
• Use highly sophisticated Excel skills to analyze data, reconcile activity, identify issues, and support decision‑making.
• Improve system workflows, data quality, reporting, and automation opportunities.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to improve integration between systems and reduce manual work.
• Support training and adoption of finance systems across corporate and local teams.

• Support timely and accurate completion of month‑end close activities.
• Coordinate with accounting leadership and regional controllers to ensure close‑related shared services tasks are completed on schedule.
• Support reconciliations, accruals, AP cut‑off, AR activity, payroll‑related items, and other close processes.
• Help maintain close discipline through Flo Qast or other close management tools.
• Assist with preparation and organization of support for audits, reviews, and internal reporting needs.

• Work closely with regional and local teams to understand current processes and implement practical improvements.
• Partner with operations leaders to ensure finance workflows support business needs without sacrificing…