Finance Director – M&A Integration

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President Full Time Northville, MI, Northville, MI, US

We are seeking an experienced Finance Director – M&A Integration to lead the financial integration of newly acquired businesses and help build a scalable finance organization capable of supporting continued growth.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this role will serve as the finance leader for post-acquisition integration efforts, partnering closely with accounting, finance, operations, IT, human resources, and acquired-company leadership teams. The ideal candidate combines strong accounting, controllership, and FP&A expertise with hands‑on experience integrating businesses following acquisitions.

This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to drive meaningful impact across financial performance, systems integration, operational efficiency, and strategic growth initiatives.

• Lead the finance workstream for post-acquisition integrations.
• Develop and execute financial integration plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Evaluate accounting practices, financial processes, systems, controls, reporting, and organizational structures of acquired businesses.
• Establish Day 1, 30/60/90-day, and long-term integration priorities.
• Coordinate the integration of accounting, FP&A, treasury, payroll, purchasing, and related financial functions.
• Identify integration risks, process gaps, and opportunities for standardization and improvement.
• Partner with operational leadership to ensure business continuity throughout integration efforts.
• Monitor acquisition performance, including revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, working capital, and synergy realization.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting for acquired businesses.
• Standardize accounting policies, chart of accounts structures, close processes, and management reporting.
• Support purchase accounting, opening balance sheet reviews, and acquisition-related accounting matters.
• Improve close processes and accelerate integration into consolidated reporting structures.
• Strengthen financial controls, reconciliations, accrual processes, and revenue and cost recognition practices.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, financial models, and operational KPIs.
• Analyze financial results against budgets, forecasts, and acquisition expectations.
• Partner with business leaders to identify financial drivers and support decision‑making.
• Perform profitability analysis across customers, projects, business units, and service lines.
• Improve forecasting capabilities related to revenue, margins, labor, subcontractor costs, capital expenditures, and cash flow.

• Lead finance-related ERP, reporting, and data integration initiatives.
• Standardize financial processes and reporting across acquired companies.
• Establish and enhance internal controls and approval workflows.
• Identify opportunities to automate, streamline, and scale financial processes.
• Partner with IT and finance teams to improve data quality and reporting accuracy.
• Help develop repeatable integration frameworks to support future acquisitions.

• Improve visibility into accounts receivable, accounts payable, and working capital performance.
• Partner with operations to improve billing, collections, project closeout, and cash flow management.
• Develop metrics and accountability structures that improve cash generation and working capital efficiency.

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to acquired-company leadership teams.
• Lead change management initiatives…