Director of Finance

Job Details

• Job Location:
  
  Illinois - Lansing, IL 60438
• Position Type:
  Full Time
• Education Level: 4 Year Degree
• Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year

Platinum Pest Solutions is a commercial pest control company headquartered in Lansing, Illinois, with operating locations in Milwaukee and Indianapolis. We protect multifamily apartment portfolios and commercial properties through general pest, bed bug, and canine inspection services. We employ more than 80 people and we are growing into new markets.

The company runs on EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System. That means clear seats, clear numbers, quarterly Rocks, and a weekly leadership rhythm where the person accountable for a number brings that number.

Our core values are Dream Big, Positive Optimistic Energy, Great Customer Service, Compassion, and Platinum Pride. We hire against them and we manage against them.

Finance at Platinum has been carried by an outside fractional CFO. That arrangement served the company well through an earlier stage, and the business has now outgrown it. As we operate across three markets and move onto a new technology platform, we need a finance leader inside the building who owns the numbers end to end.

This is a build seat, not a maintain seat. The Finance Director will bring accounting in house, stand up the controls and reporting a multi location service business requires, and give the leadership team financial information they can act on weekly rather than quarterly. The person who takes this role will be building the function they run for the next several years.

• Own the monthly close and drive it to a consistent, predictable calendar.
• Produce the monthly reporting package: consolidated profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and location level results with commentary.
• Build fully loaded location profit and loss statements so each market carries its true cost of support, and maintain the allocation methodology behind them.
• Own the chart of accounts, revenue recognition by service line, and a written accounting policy manual.
• Deliver unit economics by service line, by market, and by account so pricing and route decisions are made on facts.

• Own the rolling 13-week cash forecast and review it with the President weekly.
• Manage banking relationships, debt schedules, covenant tracking, and verification that loan payments are applied as agreed.
• Lead the annual budget and quarterly reforecast, built with the leadership team and tied to quarterly Rocks.
• Model the financial case for new locations, facility decisions, fleet investment, and major vendor commitments.

• Own accounts receivable, the aging, and collections. Set and report days sales outstanding and bad debt targets.
• Drive autopay adoption across the customer base. This is a named priority for the seat and one of the clearest cash conversion opportunities in the business.
• Establish bad debt reserve and write off policies and hold the company to them.
• Partner with Operations and Client Success so billing disputes are resolved at the source rather than in collections.

• Bring the accounts payable cycle in house and maintain clear segregation of duties across payables, receivables, and cash application.
• Own expense management controls in Ramp, including card policy, approval thresholds, receipt discipline, and monthly spend review.
• Own vendor management and contract review for recurring spend across fleet, insurance, information technology, and subcontractors.
• Manage sales tax, business licensing, insurance audits, and coordination with the outside tax accountant.
• Own payroll processing and the finance side of…