VP of FP&A

Who We Are:

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. We are a passionate group of professionals committed to preserving the legacy of small and medium-sized businesses while accelerating their growth. We bring deep expertise and a hands-on approach to support our partners, expand the Guardian network, and make a lasting, positive impact across every organization

What We Need:

Guardian is continuing to scale as a leading restoration services platform. As we grow, stronger financial visibility, sharper forecasting, disciplined cash management, and consistent performance reporting are increasingly critical. The VP of FP&A will help build the financial infrastructure that allows Guardian to make faster, better decisions, improve cash flow and profitability, support the integration of partner companies, and create confidence with leadership, the Board, and lenders.

This is a high-impact finance leadership role for someone who can operate as both a strategic partner and a hands-on builder. Reporting to the CFO, this leader will partner closely with the Executive Leadership Team, regional leaders, and business operators to strengthen financial discipline, improve transparency, and translate financial and operational data into actionable decisions that drive cash flow, profitability, and enterprise value.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Enterprise Visibility

• Lead Guardian’s annual operating plan, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes.
• Build and improve driver-based planning models that connect operational activity to financial outcomes.
• Create clear visibility into financial performance across regions, partner companies, service lines, and legal entities.
• Improve consistency and reliability of planning inputs across the business.
• Develop timely, accurate, and decision-useful financial outputs for executive leadership, the Board, lenders, and operational stakeholders.
• Support scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to inform business decisions, resource allocation, and risk management.

Own Cash Flow Visibility and Liquidity Forecasting

• Own the design, implementation, accuracy, and ongoing management of Guardian’s 13-week cash flow forecast.
• Establish a disciplined weekly cash cadence with visibility into receipts, disbursements, liquidity, risks, and required actions.
• Partner with Operations, Accounting, AR, AP, Treasury, Revenue Cycle, and regional leaders to improve working capital performance.
• Identify risks and opportunities related to liquidity, cash conversion, collections, billing, vendor payments, and operating cash flow.
• Translate cash flow insights into clear actions that improve liquidity and reduce forecast variance.
• Deliver clear and credible cash performance updates to the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, Board, and lenders.

Strengthen Performance Management and Reporting

• Own monthly and quarterly business review processes, including executive, Board, and lender reporting.
• Provide clear analysis of actual performance versus plan, including key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Build standardized reporting views that improve transparency, accountability, and decision-making across the business.
• Partner with Technology as a finance subject matter expert to define KPIs, standardize reporting requirements, and automate analytics.
• Improve the consistency, accuracy, and usability of financial and operational reporting across Sage, Albi, and related business workflows.
• Establish a common performance language that connects operational KPIs to revenue, margin, EBITDA, working capital, and cash flow.

Serve as a Strategic Business Partner

• Act as a financial co-pilot to regional leaders, business General Managers, and functional leaders.
• Translate financial analysis into practical operating decisions and action plans.
• Build trust with executive leaders, regional leaders, and business operators by bringing clear, commercially grounded financial insights.
• Help leaders understand what happened, why it happened, what it means, and what actions should be taken next.
• Support pricing strategy, margin improvement, labor productivity, cost optimization, and capital allocation decisions.
• Challenge assumptions, pressure-test plans, and bring data-driven recommendations to leadership discussions.
• Move fluidly between executive-level strategic discussions and detailed analysis of forecast inputs, cash flow drivers, data quality, and operational performance trends.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.

Drive Value Creation and Performance Improvement

• Partner with the CFO and business leaders to identify and execute EBITDA improvement initiatives.
• Link financial performance to operational levers such as gross margin, labor utilization, job profitability, collections, SG&A leverage, and cash conversion.
• Support M&A, integration, and CapEx planning with clear financial analysis and performance tracking.
• Help evaluate acquired company performance against expectations and identify opportunities to improve integration, reporting, and financial discipline.
• Build financial frameworks that support enterprise value creation in a private equity-backed environment.

Build and Lead a Scalable FP&A Function

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing FP&A team.
• Establish scalable planning processes, financial models, reporting tools, and operating cadences.
• Elevate FP&A from a reporting function to a strategic performance management capability.
• Improve standardization while enabling accountability across regions and partner companies.
• Create clear ownership, expectations, and rhythms for forecasting, reporting, cash visibility, and performance reviews.
• Operate as a hands-on leader when needed while building the team, processes, and tools required for scale.

Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking, or related finance leadership roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required; MBA or relevant advanced degree preferred.
• Strong experience with cash flow management, liquidity forecasting, and 13-week cash flow forecasting required.
• Experience operating in a private equity-backed, acquisition-oriented, or performance-driven environment strongly preferred.
• Experience in multi-site, labor-oriented, field services, restoration, construction, industrial services, or similar operating environments preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and executive-level reporting.
• Advanced financial modeling, analytical, and scenario planning capabilities.
• Strong understanding of working capital, cash conversion, EBITDA drivers, margin performance, and operational KPIs.
• Experience partnering with Accounting, Treasury, Operations, Technology, Revenue Cycle, Commercial, and executive leadership teams.
• Proven ability to influence executive decision-making and communicate complex financial information clearly.
• Experience building or scaling FP&A processes, teams, reporting tools, and operating cadences in a growing organization.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels, including advising executive leadership while engaging deeply in financial models, forecast inputs, cash flow drivers, data quality, and operational trends.

Skills That Will Make You Successful in This Role:

• Enterprise mindset: You can connect partner company, regional, functional, and corporate performance into one clear financial picture.
• Cash discipline: You understand that cash visibility requires operating cadence, timely inputs, and cross-functional accountability.
• Operator orientation: You know how to translate financial data into clear actions business leaders can execute.
• Financial rigor: You can build models, pressure-test assumptions, and identify the real drivers behind performance.
• Strategic communication: You can simplify complexity for the CFO, CEO, Board, lenders, and operating leaders.
• Builder mentality: You are comfortable creating structure, improving processes, and scaling tools in an evolving environment.
• Influence without authority: You can drive accountability across teams that may not report directly to you.
• Systems fluency: You understand how financial systems, operational systems, data quality, and reporting automation affect decision-making.
• Change leadership: You can raise standards without creating unnecessary friction across partner companies and functional teams.

Compensation: 

Guardian is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $180,000 to $225,000 plus eligibility for an annual bonus and LIT. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

Location:

This role is a hybrid role – requiring 2-3 days/week in the downtown Denver office. 

Application Deadline:

The anticipated application deadline is July 10th, though that date may change depending on the volume of qualified resumes we receive by that time.

Salary Range:

$180,000 - $225,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer:

• At Guardian Restoration Partners, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.