Chief Financial Officer - New Home Solar

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MARS Energy is a diversified energy holding company focused on acquiring and scaling commercial solar, roofing, and energy storage businesses across the United States. Our objective is to reach $500 million in annual revenue within five years, driven by strategic acquisitions, and disciplined execution. We are a high-growth, multi-company platform advancing the clean-energy transition through both organic scale and disciplined acquisitions.

We integrate development, interconnection, EPC delivery, and post-install services to provide best-in-class energy solutions for commercial clients, developers, and builders across multiple U.S. geographies.

Our growth strategy centers on uniting strong local operators under one operating system; standardizing workflows, elevating safety and quality, and deploying data-driven processes that improve customer outcomes. With a healthy pipeline, proven integration playbooks, and a culture of accountability, MARS Energy offers the opportunity to shape an expanding platform, lead high-performing teams, and scale meaningful climate infrastructure at speed.

Solara, one of our core divisions, partners with leading national, public and regional homebuilders to deliver turnkey roofing, solar, and battery solutions for new construction. Solara manages the full process from roof installation through solar and battery integration, providing builders with a single partner for two of the most critical scopes in home construction.

The Chief Financial Officer owns financial strategy, planning, and control for Solara, MARS Energy Group’s new-construction division. With a nine-figure pro forma revenue, Solara is rapidly growing both organically and inorganically. The role partners with Solara leadership and Corporate Finance to drive profitable growth, ensure strong cash management, de-risk public-works and utility-scale project execution, and build a scalable finance infrastructure. The CFO leads FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Tax coordination, Audit, and Risk/Insurance, and is accountable for timely, accurate reporting and compliance across the division’s entities and jurisdictions.

• Advise Solara leadership, translate strategy into financial targets, budgets, and capital plans, and report performance to group leadership and owners.
• Lead annual and quarterly planning cycles, including AOP and rolling forecasts, and run a disciplined cadence on growth, margin, cash conversion, ROIC, and safety cost impacts.
• Maintain the long-range model with scenarios and sensitivities; assess new markets, partnerships, JV structures, and M&A with investment cases and integration plans.
• Set margin, SG&A, and cash targets by business line and entity, then drive monthly variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure timely month-end close and GAAP financials; issue reliable management reports and deliver clean audit outcomes.
• Oversee project accounting, including general-ledger integrity, revenue recognition on long-duration contracts, job costing and WIP; standardize reporting for budget vs. actuals, change orders, contingencies, productivity, and rework.
• Strengthen internal controls and policy documentation across procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, payroll, and T&E; maintain audit readiness and multi-state and public-works compliance.
• Lead tax planning and compliance in coordination with Corporate; manage entity registrations and work with external CPAs on audits and returns.
• Own cash forecasting and liquidity; optimize working capital through billing cadence, AR collections, retainage, DSO and DPO, and inventory turns; oversee daily treasury operations.
• Structure and maintain financing and surety programs, including revolvers, LOCs, and bonding; manage lender and surety relationships, covenant compliance, insurance coverage, and claims.
• Partner with Operations on project setup, including estimate handoff, budget structure, and cost codes; implement earned-value reporting and margin-at-complete forecasting and escalate…