Director of Finance And Accounting

Now hiring an IN-OFFICE Finance Director for our client, a commercial pest control company HQ in Lansing, IL. As they operate across 3 markets and move onto a new technology platform, they need a Finance Leader who will own the numbers end to end. This is a build seat, not a maintain seat. The role will be responsible for bringing accounting in house, standing up controls, reporting a multi-location service business, and providing the leadership team with financial information needed to can act on weekly. This role will be building the function for the next several years.

What You Will Own

Reporting and Close

• 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.

Cash, Credit, and Planning

• 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.

Revenue Cycle and Collections

• 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.

Controls, Payables, and Compliance

• 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 benefits administration in partnership with Human Resources.

Systems and the Technology Transition

• Serve as the finance owner for the migration from PestPac to Fieldwork, and for the integration with QuickBooks and HubSpot.
• Validate that revenue, billing, and job costing data flow correctly through go live. Data integrity through the transition is a priority for this seat.
• Build reporting that pulls from the system of record rather than from side spreadsheets.

Leadership

• Hold the Finance seat on the leadership team and bring weekly Scorecard measurables the team can act on.
• Hire, develop, and lead the billing and accounting staff as the function grows.
• Translate financial results into plain language for service managers and field leaders who do not work in finance every day.

What Success Looks Like

First 90 Days

• Day to day accounting fully transitioned from the outside fractional CFO with no gap in close, payroll, or vendor payment.
• A documented close calendar and month end checklist in use.
• A rolling 13-week cash forecast live and reviewed weekly.
• Segregation of duties established across the payables cycle.

First 12 Months

• Monthly close completed on calendar, every month, without heroics.
• Fully loaded location profit and loss statements in production for all three markets.
• Autopay adoption materially increased and measured weekly on the Scorecard.
• Bad debt measured, reserved, and trending down.
• Financials that are clean, documented, and stand up to review by lenders, insurers, and outside partners.
• A finance function staffed and structured to support expansion into new markets.

What You Bring

Required

• Bachelor degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 5 years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including at least 3 years leading a function or a team.
• Hands on ownership of a full monthly close in a company with multiple locations or profit centers.
• Strong QuickBooks experience and advanced Excel.
• Working proficiency with AI tools. Platinum runs on Claude Team. We expect our finance leader to use it directly for analysis, documentation, and reporting, and to raise the standard for how the rest of the company uses it.
• Direct experience with receivables, collections, and cash forecasting in a recurring revenue or route-based business.
• A builder temperament. You are comfortable writing the process that does not exist yet and doing the work yourself until there is someone to hand it to.