Senior Financial Manager

Senior Financial Manager Cedar Rapids, IA | On-site  A locally owned shared service company in Eastern Iowa is supporting a growing group of 30+ independently owned construction, manufacturing and industrial companies with strategic and financial solutions.  They are seeking a motivated financial professional to join their finance team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as a Senior Financial Manager. This is a newly created position to serve as the CFO’s right hand in the field as an execution-focused financial systems expert and operational fixer.    This is not a traditional accounting role centered on month-end close. You’ll serve as an execution-focused partner to the CFO, to diagnose financial and operational issues, improve systems and processes, and turn analysis into action.  You won't always walk into clean data, standardized processes, or perfectly configured systems.  Technology is a tool in this role, not the end goal — you'll start with the business problem and work backward to the right financial, process, data, or technology solution.  Part of the job is figuring out what is actually happening, creating structure, and getting the right people aligned around a solution.    The financial team is growing an interest in M&A as they evaluate additional companies to bring into the shared-services model, and this person will be pulled into that work as it develops — assessing the financials of prospective add-ons and supporting integration once they join.    This is initially an individual-contributor leadership role with significant influence across portfolio companies; team leadership opportunities may develop as the platform grows.  What You'll Own  Serve as the CFO's right hand — taking ownership of delegated projects, financial analysis, and initiatives across the portfolio, with increasing autonomy as you build trust   Drive project-level profitability analysis — digging into job profitability, gain/fade, margins, WIP, and other operational drivers to help leadership understand not just what the numbers are, but why   Work directly with portfolio companies to diagnose the root cause of financial and operational issues and help implement solutions, including on-site support when needed   Evaluate financial and operational processes end to end — understanding how operations, processes, systems, data, and accounting ultimately flow through to financial results rather than fixing one piece in isolation   Support ERP and financial system implementations, conversions, and integrations across portfolio companies — from requirements and data validation through testing, transition, and user adoption   Translate business problems into practical financial, process, and systems solutions, partnering with compa...