Chief Financial Officer

At Auld & White Constructors
, we are seeking a Chief Financial Officer to serve as a forward-looking business partner to the CEO and leadership team. This individual will provide enterprise-level financial leadership, strengthen decision-making, and develop the strategy, planning, controls, and reporting necessary to support AWC’s continued growth and scale.

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of one of Northeast Florida's most respected construction companies. The ideal candidate combines strategic perspective with sound judgment, clear communication, and a willingness to engage in important details. This leader will partner closely with an experienced Controller, Finance, Operations, and other leaders to improve visibility, manage risk, and translate financial information into actionable business insights.

Why Join Auld & White Constructors?

• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the CEO and leadership team and influence AWC’s next phase of growth.
• Develop the financial strategy and capacity necessary to support profitable growth while balancing project economics, liquidity, bonding capacity, risk, and long-term value.
• Join an organization with a strong operational foundation, an experienced finance team, and leaders who value collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bring fresh perspective and help strengthen the systems, processes, and insights that support long-term success.
• Join a company known for its strong culture and consistently recognized as one of Jacksonville's Best Places to Work.

Position Description

• Lead the company's financial strategy, planning, forecasting, and capital allocation activities to support profitable growth and long-term business objectives.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the CEO, providing an independent financial perspective on growth, profitability, risk, capital allocation, talent investment, and long-term value.
• Develop a long-term financial roadmap that aligns balance sheet capacity, compensation, distributions, reinvestment, and growth objectives with the company's long-term interests.
• Lead cash forecasting, working capital strategy, banking relationships, credit facilities, and capital planning, with a focus on billing, capital utilization, and converting project profitability into timely and predictable cash flow.
• Partner with CEO and surety providers to proactively manage bonding capacity and understand the balance sheet, liquidity, working capital, and backlog implications of planned growth.
• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, and long-range financial planning; establish meaningful KPIs, dashboards, and reporting that provide a forward-looking view of performance.
• Partner with Operations to evaluate project and division performance, including job cost reporting, work-in-progress reporting, backlog, margin trends, change orders, and emerging financial risks.
• Strengthen project forecasting and estimated-cost-to-complete discipline, including early identification of margin fade, cost overruns, change-order exposure, schedule impacts, and other indicators of project risk.
• Provide leadership through the Controller and Finance team while maintaining clear ownership and accountability across the finance function.
• Oversee audit, tax, compliance, insurance, internal controls, and enterprise risk management.
• Improve financial systems, data quality, reporting, automation, and workflow efficiency while ensuring processes and controls can scale without unnecessarily slowing operational decision-making.
• Represent AWC with banks, surety providers, insurers, auditors, and other financial stakeholders

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field required; CPA and/or…